Exam 17: Protists: Advent of the Eukaryotes

Why are colonial protists not considered to be multicellular?

Which type of life cycle do bacteria have?

Protists move by:

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

Which type of life cycle do animals have?

These creatures are nonmotile,spore-forming,unicellular parasites of animals.

The ancestor to the animals appears to have belonged to this group.

The __________ are unusual creatures that stream along in an oozing mass of slime.

The bacteria that today are most similar to chloroplasts are:

Related to the amoebas,these usually unicellular creatures are able to aggregate under times of stress.

What is the evolutionary advantage of sexual reproduction?

Which group is believed to be ancestral to the plants?

Which of these kingdoms is the most diverse?

The 8,000 species in this group have countless rows of cilia.

The vector that transfers the malarial parasite to humans is the:

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

Protists that ingest visible particles of food are called:

What is the theory of endosymbiosis?

Which organism is the most photosynthetically productive living organism that forms underwater forests over 100 meters long?

There are _______ major phyla in the Kingdom Protista.