Fungi and Protist Quiz

Question 1

What are the three types of heterotrophic protozoans?

Answer 1

Pathogens, parasites, predators

Question 2

What are the three classifications of animallike protests by how they move?

Answer 2

Pseudopods move with Pseudopodia

Flagellates move with flagella

Ciliates move with Cilia

Question 3

What protist causes malaria?

Answer 3

Plasmodium

Question 4

How are plant like protists classified?

Answer 4

By the type of cell wall

Question 5

What are the three types of plant like protista?

Answer 5

Euglenoids

dinoflagellates

diatoms

Question 6

What do diatoms provide?

Answer 6

Half of earths oxygen

Question 7

What do fungus like protists do for the earth?

Answer 7

Recycles nutrients for the environment

Question 8

How big is a large slime mold?

Answer 8

1 m

Question 9

Is a slime mold single celled or multicelled?

Answer 9

Single celled

Question 10

What is slime mold mostly made of that is also what makes up 90% of all other cells

Answer 10

Cytoplasm

Question 11

What is the cell wall made of in fungi?

Answer 11

Chitin/polysaccharide

Question 12

What does mycelium make up?

Answer 12

Mycelium makes up the growth underneath the hyphae/the stem and the cap

Question 13

How does bread mold reproduce?

Answer 13

It may reproduce sexually or asexually

Question 14

What are the three different types of club fungi?

Answer 14

Mushrooms, puffballs, shelf fungi

Question 15

What are the three different types of sac fungi?

Answer 15

Yeast, morels, truffles

Question 16

How do sac fungi reproduce

Answer 16

Sexually

Question 17

What is the specific type of spore of sac fungi called?

Answer 17

Ascospores

Question 18

What is another term for an animal like protist?

Answer 18

Protozoan