Exam 16: Plants, Fungi, and Protists

Fiddlehead greens are the curled,young fronds of a fern.Harvested very early and trimmed close to the ground,they provide a tasty addition to salads.These multicellular,photosynthetic,vascularized organisms that do not produce seeds belong to kingdom

Some protists break down waste material by consuming other dead organisms and releasing nutrients into the environment to be reused by producers and cycled back into the food chain.These protists are

The organism Entamoeba histolytica is one of the causes of amoebic dysentery.Infection occurs when cysts of this organism are swallowed and enter the patient's digestive tract.These cysts each have four nuclei,and once in the digestive tract the cysts divide into four cells,each with its own nucleus.Each new cell can invade the mucosal lining of the digestive tract by pushing its pseudopodia into the lining.This organism is a ________ that belongs to ________.

Match each correct evolutionary trait to the indicated box. -seeds evolve

Like plant cells,all fungal cells have

Photosynthetic ________ would NOT have chloroplasts.

Propose an explanation for how the evolution of flowers contributed to the global distribution and awe-inspiring variety of angiosperms.

An autotrophic organism that grows on land,has vascular tissues,but does not produce seeds is probably a

Truffles are the subterranean fruiting body of a mychorrhizal fungus and usually found in close association with tree roots.The mycelial mat of the truffle

In the late spring,Miles moves into a new house with a small tree growing in the yard.The flowers on this tree have five white petals tinged with pink.Later in the summer,he notices a small fruit where each of the flowers had bloomed.Miles does not take long to realize this is an apple tree,Malus pumila.This apple tree is a(n)________ from kingdom Plantae.

A eukaryotic cell that is involved in producing a lot of protein would have an extensive network of

Large sheets of brownish organisms are attached to the seafloor and waving in the surf.These photosynthetic organisms do not have any vascular tissue and do not live on land.These are probably ________ in the kingdom ________.

As Charlotte snorkels near the shoreline,she notices large masses of something green swaying with the surf.She suspects this to be a large plant in the ocean.She collects a sample.Upon closer examination,she discovers that there are no vascular structures to absorb and transport water and nutrients throughout the organism,but there are chloroplasts present in the cells.This organism most likely belongs to kingdom

There are two broad categories within kingdom Protista.The ________ are motile and heterotrophic.The algae are photosynthetic and may or may not be motile.

Fungi often form mutualistic relationships with plants.These mutualistic relationships are typically characterized by benefits to

Pinus sylvestris,Scotch Pine,is native to Europe and Asia.Most Americans refer to them as "Christmas trees." This species of tree grows from the naked seeds produced on cones and released about 22-24 months after pollination.This tree is an example of a ________ from kingdom ________.

Pignoli are pine nuts that have lent themselves to culinary uses as far back as the Roman Empire.Pignoli are naked seeds harvested from the scales of the cones produced by the Italian Stone Pine tree.The Italian Stone Pine and other pine nut-producing trees are ________ from kingdom Plantae.

Fungi are similar to animals in that they store surplus food energy in the form of ________.

Yeasts provide leavening in bread by metabolizing the starches and sugars present in flour.Carbon dioxide bubbles are produced when the ________ present in yeast cells use(s)the sugars for cellular respiration to produce energy for the cell.

What is distinctive about how the members of kingdom Protista are grouped together? How is this different from the way other eukaryotic kingdoms are composed?