Exam 29: Protists

Choose the letter of the best match from the following: -Is a member of the apicomplexes;carried by mosquitoes,it multiplies rapidly in the liver of humans to produce cyclic fevers of malaria.

Which of the following is not one of the distinctive features of dinoflagellates?

Trypanosomiasis is spread by

Which of the following statements about malaria is false?

Conjugating ciliates exchange a pair of haploid micronuclei that undergo mitosis as a diploid micronucleus,while the macronucleus in each

The members of ___________ include dinoflagellates,apicomplexes,and ciliates.

Vacuoles for ingesting food and regulating their water balance are characteristic of

Organisms that are characterized by being unicellular,photosynthetic,and having double shells made of silica are known as

The present day _________ have representatives most like the earliest eukaryotes.

If the brown algae obtained their chloroplasts through secondary endosymbiosis,then the number of membranes surrounding their chloroplast should be _________.

The parasite that is responsible for causing malaria is called

The ___________ are a group within the Euglenozoa that have a unique,single mitochondrion.

Which of the following terms is NOT associated with the Euglenozoa?

Amoebas move from place to place by means of their

The tropical diseases such as African sleeping sickness,Chaga's disease,and leishmaniasis are caused by

The unique double shells of diatoms are made of

According to the theory for the endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria,the outer membrane of the mitochondrion was derived from an

The life cycle of Paramecium involves which of the following processes?

Typical asexually reproducing protists can reproduce ________ in times of stress.

Which one of the following groups is not considered monophyletic?