Superphylum Alveolata

Question 1

Common name of Alveolates?

Answer 1

They are unicellular, animal-like protozoans.

Question 2

What are the synapomorphies of the superphylum Alveolata?

Answer 2

The superphylum has a sac called an alveolus.

Question 3

Mostly free-living and motile

Answer 3

Superphylum Alveolata

Question 4

Can Alveolates be parasitic?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

How many species are in Superphylum Alveolata?

Answer 5

64,000 species

Question 6

What type of species are the alveolates, consumers or producers?

Answer 6

Primary consumers

Question 7

List some important alveolates

Answer 7

Paramecium caudatum, Ceratium hirundinella, Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum

Question 8

Which alveolate is ciliated?

Answer 8

Paramecium caudatum

Question 9

What alveolate has a cellulose test?

Answer 9

Ceratium hirundinella

Question 10

List details of a Ceratium hirundinella

Answer 10

It’s a dinoflagellate, with an equatorial flagellum and a cellulose test. Causes red tides.

Question 11

What causes the disease malaria?

Answer 11

Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum

Question 12

What is malaria’s vector?

Answer 12

Mosquitos

Question 13

Describe the life cycle of malaria in the mosquito?

Answer 13

The mosquito ingests the plasmodium via GAMETOCYTES, which change in gametes within the mosquitos gut. Gametes to zygote, the disease grows (encysts) in the zygote, changing it’s shape. SPOROZOITES break free and get injected into a human host by a mosquito bite

Question 14

What does the disease malaria attack?

Answer 14

Red blood cells

Question 15

What does the disease malaria attack?

Answer 15

Red blood cells

Question 16

Describe the life cycle of malaria in the human host?

Answer 16

The human is injected with SPOROZOITES that invade the liver and red blood cells, becoming MEROZOITES. Which then these merozoites invade other cells by exploding the cell and infecting the other cell. The merozoites differentiate into GAMETOCYTES, which infect mosquitos.