Exam 24: Protists

Which of the following protists are NOT included in the Unikont supergroup?

A population boom in which type of organism will cause a red tide?

What do amoebas use pseudopodia for besides movement?

Which of the following is the feature that choanoflagellates received their name after?

-In the figure, in which step is meiosis occurring?

Amoeba is a term used to describe unicellular protists that move by means of flagella.

Match each protistan genus with its description. -Euglena

Match each characteristic to a type of algae. Algae may be used once, more than once, or not at all. -grows at the deepest ocean levels

Most Euglena are autotrophs that carry out photosynthesis using different pigments as plants.

-In the figure, what are the structures labelled as number 5?

Which of the following is the feature that the green algae received their name after?

Match each characteristic to a type of algae. Algae may be used once, more than once, or not at all. -ancestors of plants

Which group do diatoms belong to?

Match each characteristic to a type of algae. Algae may be used once, more than once, or not at all. -source of carrageenan, a thickening agent

Which of the following is characteristic of all algae?

Slime moulds are classified as Amoebozoa.

Which term can be used to describe the majority of protists?

-In the figure, what type of mosquito is illustrated?

Some dinoflagellates exhibit bioluminescence with the help of the enzyme photolyase.

Suppose you discover an organism that has a nucleus but no mitochondria. What could this organism be?