Exam 17: Protists: Advent of the Eukaryotes

Unicellular,photosynthetic protists with two flagella of unequal length belong to this group.

The malarial parasite,Plasmodium,belongs to this group.

A(n)__________ is a transient collection of individuals that come together for a time.

The development of an adult from an unfertilized egg is a form of asexual reproduction known as _______________.

What is the evolutionary advantage of sexual reproduction?

Why are colonial protists not considered to be multicellular?

When conditions are inhospitable,some protists respond by forming ________.

The development of an adult from an unfertilized egg is called:

There are _______ major phyla in the Kingdom Protista.

Downy mildews such as Phytophthora infestans belong to this group.

Protists typically only reproduce sexually during ________.

Eukaryotes are first seen in the fossil record __________ years ago.

The euglenozoan known as Trypanosoma causes _________ in humans.

The marine protists with pore-studded shells called tests belong to this group.

When individual cellular slime mold amoebas are near starvation,all the individuals in that immediate area aggregate into a large moving mass of cells called a:

These creatures are heterotrophs with restricted mobility,have cell walls made up of cellulose,and carry out normal mitosis.

What is schizogony?

Which organisms can do photosynthesis when there is light and become heterotrophs in the dark?

The majority of protists reproduce ________ most of the time.

________ possess red pigments called phycobilins that give them their characteristic color.