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PROTIST AND FUNGI
PROTISTS AND FUNGUS
Question | Answer |
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What is a eukaryotes that is not an animal, plant, or fungus? | Protist |
Why are protists grouped together | They lack traits that put them in different kingdoms |
What domain are protist in? | Eukarya |
What kingdom are protist in? | Protista |
How do animal - like protists get their food? | Heterotroph |
How do plant - like protist get their good? | Autotroph |
How do fungus - like protist get their food? | Decomposer |
What term is used to describe animal - like protists? | Protozoa |
Unlike the flagella of prokaryotes eukaryotic flagella are extensions of ______. | Cytoplasm |
What is a fake foot made of cytoplasm and plasma membrane? | Pseudopod |
What are short structures that look hair and help an organism swim and capture food? | Cilia |
What is the disease caused by the protist plasmodium? | Malaria |
How is the disease plasmodium passed to humans? | Through the bite of a mosquito |
What organism causes sleeping sickness in humans and other mammals? | Trypanosoma |
What does giarda cause? | Intestinal disease |
How are plant - like protists different from plants? | They don't have roots, stems, leaves, specialized tissue, and all plants are multicellular |
What are photosynthetic protists? | Algae |
Is this protist single - celled or multicellular? Euglenoids | Single celled |
Is this protist single - celled or multicellular? Dinoflagellates | Single celled |
Is this protist single - celled or multicellular? Diatoms | Single celled |
Is this protist single - celled or multicellular? Green algae | Multicellular |
Is this protist single - celled or multicellular? Brown algae | Multicellular |
Is this protist single - celled or multicellular? Red algae | Multicellular |
What type of protist is being described? Can move around like an animal but does photosynthesis like a plant. | Euglenoids |
What type of protist is being described? Has two flagella. | Dinoflagellates |
What type of protist is being described? Is covered with grasslike shells. | Diatoms |
What type of protist is being described? Is thought to be an ancestor of land plants. | Green algae |
What type of protist is being described? It uses the same type of chlorophyll as diatoms. Kelp is an example. | Brown algae |
What type of protist is being described? Can grow at deep depths because of red pigment. | Red algae |
What kind of plant - like protists is used in ice cream? | Red algae |
Why might brown algae and diatoms belong in the same kingdom? | They use the same type of chlorophyll |
Many plant - like protists protists can produce both _____ and ______. | Asexually |
True or False? Algae can produce spores that do not develop unless conditions become favorable for survival. | False |
What important role do fungus - like protists play in ecosystems? | They recycle nutrients like carbon and nitrogen back into the soil |
How are fungus - like protists different from fungi? | They can move during a part of their life |
How do fungus get their food? | They absorb it from the environment |
What structures make up fungus? | Hyphae, mycelium, and fruiting body |
What substance makes up fungus cell walls? | Chitin |
How do plants get their food? | They make it during photosynthesis |
What structures make up plants? | Roots, leaves and stems |
What substance makes up plants cell walls? | Cellulose |
The bodies of multicellular fungi are made of long strands called? | Hyphae |
What is a underground network of hyphae? | Mycelium |
The reproductive structure of a fungus that goes above ground is called? | Fruiting body |
What type of fungus is being described? The smallest and simplest kind. Is mostly aquatic. | Primitive fungus |
What type of fungus is being described? Very diverse, forms in a sac. | Sac fungus |
What type of fungus is being described? Gets food by decomposing the dead. | Bread molds |
What type of fungus is being described? Club shaped. | Club fungus |
What is a mutualistic partnership between fungi and roots? | Mycorrhizae |
What is a structure that produces spores? | Sporangia |
How can molds in other fungi hurt a house? | They weaken walls |
What is a relationship between fungus and algae or photosynthetic bacteria? | Lichen |
What can lichen be used for? | Acess air quality |
What are three foods fungus are used for? | Mushrooms, yeast, citric acid |
How are fungus used in the healthcare industry? | There used for antibiotics |
How is fungi used in molecular biology? | Model systems |
What is the name of the phylum that moves by cilia? | Ciliophora |
What is the function of the oral groove? | Capture food |
What does sessile mean? | Nonmoving |
What are two examples of sessile cilates? | Stentor and vorticella |
What is the purpose of the cilia on sessile ciliates? | Movement |
Is paramecium a unicellular or multicellular? | Unicellular |
Does paramecium change shape like the amoeba? | No |
What's feeds on paramecium? | Little fish |
What are the green structures located in the Paramecium? | Chlorella |
Is chlorella harmful or helpful to the Paramecium? | Helpful |
What does zoomastigina mean? | Animal whip |
How are members of zoomastigina involved in a symbiotic relationship? | They live in the intestines of termites that break cellulose |
What protists are responsible for the disease malaria? | Parasites of the species plasmodium |
What percent of childhood deaths in Africa are due to malaria? | 20% |
Why is the drug chloroquine not affective to fight malaria anymore | Improper use of the drug has caused a resistance |
What two things can people do in their homes to reduce the chance of getting malaria? | Indoor spraying and long-lasting nets |
What are the complications that can occur to pregnant woman if the contract malaria? | Spontaneous abortion, premature delivery |
How many species of Entamoeba can humans host? | Six |
What is the third leading cause of morbidity and mortality T due to parasite diseases in humans after malaria and schistosomiasis? | Entamoeba histolytica |
What else is pseudopod used for? | Food gathering |
What phylum do euglena belong to? | Euglenapyta |
How do euglena move? | Flagellum |
What do dinoflagellates use to swim? | Flagella |
Why is it important that dinoflagellate swim toward light? | To photosynthesize |
When did dinoflagellates become killers? | When their population grows too large they kill everything around them |
Why are diatoms considered to be phytoplankton? | They are plants and make their own food |
Why are diatoms unusual plants? | Most make oil |
What percent of the worlds oxygen supply comes from these diatoms? | 80% |
Is Asterionella unicellular or multicellular? | Unicellular |
Why do Asterionella need to stay near the surface? | So they can make oil to stay afloat |
What are two uses for diatoms? | Breweries and swimming pool filters |
What is a colony of individual cells working together? | Colonial organism |
In what phylum is brown algae classified? | Phaeophyta |
The brown color of brown algae comes from what pigment? | Xanthophyll |
What Brown algae are the largest and most complex? | Kelp |
What is brown algae used for? | Toothpaste, soap, fabric printing, and ice cream |
What is the worst known of any algae group? | Rhodopmta |
What are pycocolloids used as? | Emulsifiers and gelling agents |
Crude extracts of many species contain substances with antibiotic properties against what? | Bacteria, fungi, viruses |
Plans are _____ where as fungi are _____. | Autotrophs, heterotrophs |
Are hyphae composed of mycelium or are mycelium composed of hyphae? | Mycelium are composed of hyphae |
What is used as the basis of classification with in the kingdom fungi? | Structures associated with replication |
Where could rhizopus be commonly found? | Moldy bread |
Why are spores produced by sexual reproduction and advantage over spores produced by asexual reproduction? | They may be better adapted to changes in the environment |
what are examples of fungi in the phylum ascomycota? | Morrels, truffles, and bread mold |
What is a relationship in which two organisms live together and benefit from each other? | Mutualism |
What two organisms are involved in the relationship of Lichens? | Algae and fungi |
What is a tiny filaments that makes up a multicellular fungus or water mold? | Hypha |
What are many hyphae tangled together into a thick mass? | Mycelium |
What is a slender reproductive structure that produces spores and if found in some funguslike protests; reproductive structure of fungus that develops from a mycelium? | Fruiting body |
What is a specialized hyphae where sporangia are found? | Sporangiophore |
What is a root like hypha that penetrates the surface of an object? | Rhizoid |
What is a stem like hypha that runs on the surface of an object? | Stolon |
What are the characteristics of an animal - like protists? | Unicellular, heterotroph |
What are the characteristics of plantlike protists? | Mostly photosynthetic autotroph |
How do zooflagellates move? | Flagella |
How do ciliates move? | Cilia |
How do amoebas move? | Pseudopods |
Do sporozoans move? | No |
Which phylum? African sleeping sickness's. | Zoomastigina |
Which phylum? Entamoeba. | Amoeba |
Which phylum? Paramecium. | Ciliates |
Which phylum? Malaria. | Sporozoans |
Which phylum? Free living; macro and micro nucleus. | Ciliates |
Which phylum? Trypanosomes. | Zooflagettes |
Which phylum? Non-motile. | Sporozoans |