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Which of the following is not a true statement about the kingdom Protista?A) It is an artificial grouping. B) Its members are placed there as a matter of convenience. C) Although diverse, the group represents a closely related group evolutionarily. D) It contains unicellular, colonial, and multicellular groups. 2
Which of the following lists contains a locomotor mechanism not possessed by protists?A) pseudopodia, cilia, and flagella B) flagella, axopodia, and pseudopodia C) flagella, pseudopodia, and tube feet D) cilia and pseudopodia 3
Up to a point, successive generations of diatomsA) are smaller B) are larger C) remain the same size D) are produced sexually 4
Producing a vaccine against the tsetse fly-borne trypanosomes is very difficult becauseA) tsetse flies are hard to grow in captivity B) trypanosomes each have over a thousand genes for antigens but express only one at a time C) the disease is only expressed in humans and experimental subjects are hard to get D) the trypanosome does not cause an antibody response 5
Although dinoflagellates are notorious for producing the red tide, they are also very beneficial because theyA) kill off "junk" fish B) provide light in the sea at night by bioluminescence C) form limestone when they die D) form zooxanthellae that provide reef coral with nutrients 6
The Phaeophyta are the _______________ algae.A) blue-green B) brown C) green D) red E) yellow-green 7
Amoebas reproduce byA) budding B) sporic meiosis followed by syngamy C) fission D) syngamy followed by zygotic meiosis E) sporulation 8
A common genus of marine green algae isA) Ulva B) Porphora C) Chara D) Sargassum E) Nitella 9
A thick cell wall forms around the oomycete zygote, resulting inA) an endospore B) an oospore C) a macrospore D) a zoospore E) an oogonium 10
Which of the following is not a group used in the text to classify protists?A) Mastigophora B) Sarcodina C) Sporozoans D) Diatoms E) Molds 11
Malaria results from a mosquito injecting the _______________ of Plasmodium into the human blood stream.A) sporocyst B) glycoprotein coat C) merozoites D) gametocytes E) sporozoites 12
Filamentous extensions of the Oomycota are calledA) hyphae B) setae C) podia D) cilia E) pseudopodia 13
All of the following belong to the kingdom Protista exceptA) viruses B) fungi C) sporozoans D) sarcodines E) protozoa 14
The cellular slime molds form a moving mass that eventually transforms itself into a _______________ containing spores.A) slag B) sorocarp C) macrocyst D) plasmodium E) pellicle 15
The green alga, _______________, has recently been investigated as a food source in several nations.A) Volvox B) Prochloron C) Chlamydomonas D) Spirogyra E) Chlorella 16
When spores of plasmodial slime molds release their protoplasts, the protoplasts are usuallyA) amoeboid B) diploid C) biflagellate D) haploid E) ciliate 17
Trypanosomiasis, or "sleeping sickness" is caused by a member of theA) dinoflagellates B) sporozoans C) rhizopods D) radiolarians E) zoomastigotes 18
The organism, _______________, is so unique that it was assigned its own phylum, Caryoblastea.A) Actinosphaerium B) Dicostelium C) Heliobacterium D) Pelomyxa E) Saprolegnia 19
In conjugation of the ciliate, Paramecium, _______________ are exchanged.A) macronuclei B) heterocysts C) zoogonia D) micronuclei E) stigmas 20
The chloroplasts of _______________ algae contain phycobilins.A) green B) red and green C) red D) green and brown E) brown 21
At the end of their migration, resulting from lack of food or moisture, plasmodial slime mold form aA) sorocarp B) macrocyst C) sporangium D) slug E) plasmodium 22
The poisonous "red tides" result from blooms ofA) diatoms B) dinoflagellates C) red algae D) foraminifera E) euglenoids 23
Most foraminiferaA) move along a surface with podia B) are ciliated C) swim with flagella D) live in sand or attached to other organisms E) are saprobes 24
Unlike fungi, the Oomycota have cell walls ofA) glycoprotein B) glycolipid C) chitin D) phospholipid E) cellulose 25
Which group of algae are responsible for red tides?A) diatoms B) rhodophytes C) dinoflagellates D) chromatic ciliates 26
In which phylum are organisms that form a "slug" classified?A) Acrasiomycota B) Rhizopoda C) Oomyceta D) Pyrrophyta 27
Organisms that move by means of pseudopodia belong to the group:A) algae B) Sarcodina C) diatoms D) euglenoids E) dinoflagellates 28
The algae are subdivided into three groups according to:A) the type of meiosis in their life cycle B) the structure of their cell walls C) the kind of chlorophyll they contain D) the size of their multicellular structures E) none of the above 29
Red tides are associated with:A) dinoflagellates B) zoomastigotes C) euglenoids D) diatoms E) forams 30
The organism that causes malaria belongs to which one of the following groups?A) flagellates B) slime molds C) ciliates D) zoomastigotes E) none of the above 31
Holozoic feeders survive, grow, and reproduce using chemical energy derived from the oxidation of organic molecules.A) True B) False 32
The kingdom Protista is the most diverse in the domain Eukarya.A) True B) False 33
If an organism is capable of photosynthesis, it belongs to the plant kingdom.A) True B) False 34
One characteristic that sets the Protists apart from the rest of the kingdoms is their small size.A) True B) False 35
Diatoms have intricate double shells made up of calcium carbonate.A) True B) False 36
Rusts and mildews are slime molds.A) True B) False 37
Trypanosoma , the organism that causes sleeping sickness, is in the phylum of the zoomastigotes.A) True B) False