19 Protists Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Animal like protists... | Protozoans |
Plant like protists... | Algae |
Fungus like protists, Slime molds or... | Water molds |
Fungus like protists, water molds or... | Slime molds |
Protozoans which move via cilia... | Ciliates |
Protozoans which move and envelop food using pseudopods... | Sarcodines |
Protozoans which move via flagella... | Zooflagellates |
Protozoans which reproduce using spores... | Sporozoans |
Protist that makes its own food through photosynthesis... | Algae |
Protists that east other unicellular organisms... | Protozoans |
Protist that absorbs its nutrients from dead organisms... | Fungus-like protist |
Digests wood for termites... | Microsporidium |
Protists are classified into three groups based on... | Food source |
The ___ of protists is not well known. | Evolutionary history |
The ___ is describes the most likely means by which Eukaryotic cells, the protists being the first, evolved... | Endosymbiont theory |
The ___ and zoomastigina (zooflagellates) cause diseases in humans... | Apicomplexa (sporozoans) |
Type of sleeping sickness, AKA chagas disease, caused by a zooflagellate... | American Sleeping Sickness |
African sleeping sickness is transmitted to humans via the... | Tsetse fly |
Algal blooms occur when ___ reproduce in great numbers due to plentiful food and favorable environmental conditions... | Dinoflagellates |
Algae that have characteristics of both plants and animals... | Euglenoids |
The life cycle of algae is similar to plants in that they practice... | Alternation of generations |
The cell walls of fungus like protists do not contain ___ like the cell walls of true fungi... | Chitin |
Slime molds form a ___ which is a moving mass of cytoplasm... | Plasmodium |
A chemical called ___ signals slime mold amoeboid cells to congregate and form a single sluglike colony... | Acrasin |
Acellular slime molds belong to the phylum... | Myxomycota |
Water molds and downy mildew in the phylum ___ are often found in water or other damp places... | Oomycota |
The downy mildew responsible for the Irish potato famine... | Phytophthora infestans |
Giant kelp is an example of... | Algae |
Some protists live in ___ conditions in which they depend on other organisms... | Symbiotic |
A paramecium is an example of... | Ciliates |
Structure in a paramecium which contains copies of the cell's genome for controlling everyday functions... | Macroucleus |
Amoebas use ___ for feeding and locomotion... | Pseudopods |
Euglenoids have a structure called a(n) ___ to detect light... | Eyespot |
What type of plant like protist produces much of the oxygen in the atmosphere? | Phytoplankton |
___ allow algae to absorb light in deep water... | Secondary pigments |
The cell-wall of a fungus like protist contains ___ instead of chitin... | Cellulose |
Feeding stage of a slime mold in which it is a mobile cytoplasmic mass... | Plasmodium |
What does a diatom use to store excess food? | Oil |
Which organism has silica walls? | Diatom |
A Paramecium's contractile vacuole helps to regulate the ___ inside the cell... | Amount of water |
Contain parasitic sporozoans... | Apicomplexa |
Used to thicken puddings, syrups and shampoos... | Red algae |
Includes all species of kelp... | Brown algae |
Includes the most common species of algae found in NA freshwater... | Green algae |
Most freshwater algae species are classified into phylum... | Chlorophyta |
Phylum phaeophyta classifies kelp and other protists called... | Brown algae |
Algae in phylum bacillariophyta that have two halves and display a wide variety of geometric shapes... | Diatoms |
Ciliates vary the composition of their DNA by using the process of ... | Conjugation |
Protists in phylum Rhodophyta that contain calcium carbonate and contribute to the formation of coral reefs are called... | Red algae |
Human disease caused by a sporozoan and transmitted by mosquitoes... | Malaria |
asexual reproduction in which there is an exchange of genetic information.... | Conjugation |
Studies organisms that usually are seen only with a microscope... | Microbiologist |
The concentration of dissolved substances is lower in the solution outside the cell than the concentration inside the cell... | Hypotonic |
The concentration of dissolved substances is the same in the solution as is inside the cell... | Isotonic |
Comes from the Greek word meaning 'the very first'... | Protist |
Chlorophyll containing organelles found in the cells of green plants and some protists that capture light energy and convert it to chemical energy... | Chloroplast |
A biologist who specializes in the study of algae... | Algologist |
Yellow-green and golden brown algae... | Chrysophytes |
Something that completes or makes an addition... | Supplement |
A glucose polymer that forms the cell walls of plants and some fungus like protists... | Cellulose |
A particular state in a regular cycle of changes... | Phase |
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