McGraw-Hill OnlineMcGraw-Hill Higher EducationLearning Center
Student Center | Instructor Center | Information Center | Home
Enhancement Chapters
Virtual Classroom
Biology 6/e Web Links
Interactive Maps
Virtual Labs
Journal Web Links
Author's Bookshelf
eLearning Sessions
Multiple Choice
Answers to Review Questions
Feedback
Help Center


Biology, 6/e
Author Dr. George B. Johnson, Washington University
Author Dr. Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Gardens & Washington University
Contributor Dr. Susan Singer, Carleton College
Contributor Dr. Jonathan Losos, Washington University

Protists

Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions



1

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 diatoms
A)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 because
A)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 they
A)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 by
A)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 is
A)Ulva
B)Porphora
C)Chara
D)Sargassum
E)Nitella
9

A thick cell wall forms around the oomycete zygote, resulting in
A)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 called
A)hyphae
B)setae
C)podia
D)cilia
E)pseudopodia
13

All of the following belong to the kingdom Protista except
A)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 usually
A)amoeboid
B)diploid
C)biflagellate
D)haploid
E)ciliate
17

Trypanosomiasis, or "sleeping sickness" is caused by a member of the
A)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 a
A)sorocarp
B)macrocyst
C)sporangium
D)slug
E)plasmodium
22

The poisonous "red tides" result from blooms of
A)diatoms
B)dinoflagellates
C)red algae
D)foraminifera
E)euglenoids
23

Most foraminifera
A)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 of
A)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