Exam 21: Protist Evolution and Diversity

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Imagine you are working for the Florida Public Health Department and you have been assigned the task of preventing malaria from spreading throughout the southern Everglades.Which of the following scenarios would have the greatest chance of success?

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Question 21

In Plasmodium,sexual reproduction occurs in the _,while asexual reproduction occurs in .

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Question 22

Saprolegnia,a ________,is feeding on the dead insect pictured here.This classifies it as a heterotrophic protist.

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Question 23

Which protist is NOT correctly linked to the type of movement it shows?

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Question 24

Chromalveolates that live along the rocky shores of the north temperate zones are able to withstand pounding tides and drying because of their holdfasts and mucilaginous cell walls.

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Question 25

It is believed that eukaryotes evolved their mitochondria from a symbiotic relationship with a free-living aerobic bacteria.

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Question 26

A flagellated protist that is sexually transmitted is

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Question 27

Water molds are heterotrophic because they are parasitic on fish,plants,and insects.

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Question 28

A distinctive form of this pictured organism is found in each geologic period.Which statement(s)about this organism is/are true?

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Question 29

DNA sequencing suggests that among the green algae,the __________ are most closely related to land plants.

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Question 30

If a public health official was trying to reduce the potential for human exposure to a "red tide" which of the following actions would they take?

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Question 31

Most Chromalveolates have the alternation of generations life cycle,but some species of Fungus have a diplontic life cycle.

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Question 32

Amoebic dysentery is transmitted by (through)

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Question 33

Which of the characteristic(s)apply to the Supergroup Archaeplastida?

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Question 34

Which disease is mismatched with the incorrect causative agent?

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Question 35

Which of the following protozoans is mismatched with the disease that it causes?

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Question 36

The reason biologists believe that green algae and land plants,both members of the supergroup Archaeplastida,are related is because both of them possess chlorophyll a & b as well as cell walls made of starch.

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Question 37

Which is NOT a feature found in protozoans?

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Question 38

Which of the following pairs of Protists would be most closely related due to both of them possessing plastids?

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Question 39

Which of the following alga is mismatched with its description?

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Exam 21: Protist Evolution and Diversity

Imagine you are working for the Florida Public Health Department and you have been assigned the task of preventing malaria from spreading throughout the southern Everglades.Which of the following scenarios would have the greatest chance of success?

In Plasmodium,sexual reproduction occurs in the _________,while asexual reproduction occurs in ________.

Saprolegnia,a ________,is feeding on the dead insect pictured here.This classifies it as a heterotrophic protist.

Which protist is NOT correctly linked to the type of movement it shows?

Chromalveolates that live along the rocky shores of the north temperate zones are able to withstand pounding tides and drying because of their holdfasts and mucilaginous cell walls.

It is believed that eukaryotes evolved their mitochondria from a symbiotic relationship with a free-living aerobic bacteria.

A flagellated protist that is sexually transmitted is

Water molds are heterotrophic because they are parasitic on fish,plants,and insects.

A distinctive form of this pictured organism is found in each geologic period.Which statement(s)about this organism is/are true?

DNA sequencing suggests that among the green algae,the __________ are most closely related to land plants.

If a public health official was trying to reduce the potential for human exposure to a "red tide" which of the following actions would they take?

Most Chromalveolates have the alternation of generations life cycle,but some species of Fungus have a diplontic life cycle.

Amoebic dysentery is transmitted by (through)

Which of the characteristic(s)apply to the Supergroup Archaeplastida?

Which disease is mismatched with the incorrect causative agent?

Which of the following protozoans is mismatched with the disease that it causes?

The reason biologists believe that green algae and land plants,both members of the supergroup Archaeplastida,are related is because both of them possess chlorophyll a & b as well as cell walls made of starch.

Which is NOT a feature found in protozoans?

Which of the following pairs of Protists would be most closely related due to both of them possessing plastids?

Which of the following alga is mismatched with its description?

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