Protists
23 Questions
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Bio exam 2
Questions and Answers
- 1.Protists are eukaryotes.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Protists may be free-living or
- 3.Asexual reproduction in protists occurs through which of the following.
- A.
Binary fission
- B.
Schizogony
- C.
Budding
- D.
All of the above
- 4.Kinetoplasts have large mitochondria.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Euglena possesses a light sensitive organ called a stigma.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Members of this taxon include photosynthetic protists such as zooxanthellae and phytoplankton.
- 7.Name of the spores of apicomplexans that are infective in the next host
- 8.Toxoplasmosis gondii and malaria are caused by members of this taxa.
- 9.Name of the malarial protist
- 10.Cilia are used for
- A.
Locomotion
- B.
Obtaining food
- C.
Reproduction
- 11.Name of the protists classified by the fine hairs on their flagella
- 12.Which taxon within Rhizaria is characterized by thread-like pseudopodia?
- A.
Radiolarians
- B.
Foraminiferans
- C.
Amoebas
- D.
Cercozoans
- 13.Which taxon of Rhizaria contains predators?
- A.
Radiolarians
- B.
Cercozoans
- C.
Amoebas
- D.
Foraminiferans
- 14.To which phylum do water molds, white rusts and downy mildews belong to?
- 15.Which of the following belong to Stramenopila?
- A.
Oomycetes
- B.
Brown Algae
- C.
Diatoms
- D.
Dinoflagellates
- E.
Green Algae
- 16.Used by ciliates for maneuvering.
- 17.Which of the following are true of the brown algae life cycle?
- A.
It is heteromorphic.
- B.
There is no sexual reproduction.
- C.
It contains a diploid multicellular sporophyte.
- D.
It contains haploid multicellular male and female gametophytes
- E.
It is characterized by alternation of generations
- F.
It is haplodiplontic
- 18.Members of Phylum Oomycete are
- A.
Decomposers
- B.
Symbionts
- C.
Parasites
- 19.Most protists are chemoheterotrophs. Some are photoautotrophs.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.Which phylum do Brown Algae belong to?
- 21.Which phylum do diatoms, who have unique shells of silica and whose members include phytoplankton, belong to?
- 22.Alveolata is characterized by membrane-bound sacs known as
- 23.Reproduces by binary fission, is normally autotrophic but is a facultative heterotroph.
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