Biology (Mader), 10th Edition

Chapter 21: Protist Evolution and Diversity

Learning Outcomes

After studying this chapter, you should be able to accomplish the following outcomes.

1. Describe the general characteristics of protists.
2. Summarize the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of the eukaryotic cell.
3. Distinguish between algae and protozoans.

4. Provide the defining characteristics of each of the six eukaryotic supergroups, and list the protists which are assigned to them.
5. State the evolutionary relationship between the green algae and land plants.
6. Describe conjugation in Spirogyra.
7. Summarize the life cycle of Chlamydomonas.
8. Give examples of the ecological and economic significance of the different types of algae.
9. Identify the two supergroups which include algae.
10. Describe the structure of a paramecium, euglenid, amoeboid, and a trypanosome.
11. Enumerate the major diseases caused by protists, and name the causative agent of each.
12. Summarize the life cycle of Plasmodium vivax.
13. Distinguish between plasmodial and cellular slime molds.
14. State the evolutionary relationship between choanoflagellates and sponges.
15. State the proposed evolutionary relationship between nucleariids and fungi.

16. Summarize the three common types of life cycles in sexual reproduction.