Exam 21: The Diversity of Protists

A shift in weather patterns causes a drought. The normally moist forest becomes dry, with the leaf litter on the forest floor blowing away in high winds. The creek, which normally overflows and floods the forest floor every time it rains, dries up. What would you expect to happen to the slime molds that live in the area?

Which protist causes African sleeping sickness?

Both cyanobacteria and phytoplankton are

How do amoebas differ from foraminiferans?

The active, feeding form of a(n) is a thin, multinucleate plasmodium.

After a meal of raw oysters, a woman begins to feel numbness and tingling in her hands and feet. By the time she gets to the hospital, she can no longer move and is having difficulty breathing. The lab finds a protist with two flagella. The organism is a(n)

Giardia is found in fresh water and causes an intestinal infection in mammals.

Which of the following best fits into the protist's group?

The first protist chloroplast was likely to have been a(n)

Which of the following is eukaryotic, usually acts as a producer in its ecosystem, and spins via its flagella?

Which protist causes a sexually transmitted disease?

Explain the difference between a plasmodium and Plasmodium.

Malaria is caused by a protist that is transmitted by the bite of a(n) .

Protists

The White Cliffs of Dover, England, were formed over millions of years by the accumulation of calcium carbonate shells from _.

is a protistan parasite that causes malaria in humans.

Protists that absorb nutrients from dead organic matter are called

Which of the following may be parasitic with humans?

Which of the following is a parasitic protist that is spread by Anopheles mosquitoes?

What is required to get a cellular slime mold to form a pseudoplasmodium?