Organismal Biology - Protists #1

Question 1

Protists are a ___ Kingdom.,

Answer 1

Paraphyletic

Question 2

What is the phylum for Toxoplasma gondii?

Answer 2

Apicomplexa

Question 3

What is the phylum for Trichomonas vaginalis?

Answer 3

Parabasala

Question 4

What is the phylum for Symbiodinium sp.?

Answer 4

DInoflagellata

Question 5

What is the phylum for Physarum polycephalum?

Answer 5

Myxogastrida

Question 6

What is the phylum for Giardia lamblia?

Answer 6

Diplomonadic

Question 7

Green algae, volvox, chlamydomonas, ulva (which photosyntheitc protist phylum matches this?)

Answer 7

Chlorophyta

Question 8

Silicious frustule of 2 valves, centric and pennate.

Answer 8

Bacillariophyta

Question 9

Found in deeper marine habitats, source of agar and carrgeenan

Answer 9

Rhodophyta

Question 10

Large, multicellular algae, many kelps

Answer 10

Phaeophyta

Question 11

Only some members are photosynthetic by secondary endosymbiosis

Answer 11

Euglenophyta

Question 12

Match the protist’s phylum to its clade: Diplomonadida

Answer 12

Excavata

Question 13

Match the protist’s phylum to its clade: Bacillariophyta

Answer 13

SAR

Question 14

Match the protist’s phylum to its clade: Choanoflagellata

Answer 14

Unikonta

Question 15

Match the protist’s phylum to its clade: Rhodophyta

Answer 15

Archaeplastida

Question 16

In ___, the organism is haploid dominant with no mitosis in the diploid stage.

Answer 16

Zygotic meiosis

Question 17

Which clade of eukaryotes has NO photosynthetic members?

Answer 17

Unikonta

Question 18

The parasite that causes amoebic dysentery is in which phylum?

Answer 18

Gymnamoeba

Question 19

When an Anopheles mosquito bites, she injects ___ that cause Malaria, and consimes ___ that continue the life cycle.

Answer 19

Sporozoites, gametocytes.

Question 20

What are characteristics of true multicellularity?

Answer 20

Nuclei, other membrane bound organelles, sexual life cycle, cytoskeleton, and linear chromosomes.

Question 21

Describe animans meiosis.

Answer 21

Haploids produced by meiosis. Form a diploid zygote that divides in mitosis. Produces multicellular diploid cell organisms.

Question 22

Describe fungi meiosis.

Answer 22

Meiosis with NO mitosis. Results in haploid cells dividing by mitosis.

Question 23

Describe plants and some algae meiosis.

Answer 23

Mitosis in both haploid and diploid.

Question 24

What are the three types of meiosis?

Answer 24

Zygotic, spored, and gameitc.

Question 25

Are zygotic, spored, and gametic haploid or diploid dominant?

Answer 25

Zygotic - Diploid. Spored - Both Gametic - Haploid

Question 26

What does isogamy mean?

Answer 26

Identical, but with chemical differences.

Question 27

What does anisogamy mean?

Answer 27

similar, but different sizes.

Question 28

What does oogamous mean?

Answer 28

Female gamete losing mobility.

Question 29

What does isomorphic mean?

Answer 29

gametophyte and sporophyte identical in appearance.

Question 30

What does heteromorphic mean?

Answer 30

Different in shape.

Question 31

Describe the kingdom protista.

Answer 31

It is the "trash can" or "dumping ground". Derived relative to prokaryotic lineage, but is ancestral to animals, plants, and fungi. Not monophyletic.

Question 32

What does polytomy mean?

Answer 32

Many cuts

Question 33

What are the protist clades?

Answer 33

Excavata, SAR, Archaeplastida, and Unikonta.

Question 34

What are the clades of excavada?

Answer 34

Diplomonadida, parabasala, kineto plastida, and eudlenophyta.

Question 35

Describe Diplomonadida

Answer 35

They are double nucleus, heterotrophic, free living parasites. They have 2, 4, or 8 flagella. They have no mitochondria and many live in insects or vertebrates

Question 36

What is Giardia lamblia and which protist clade is it a part of?

Answer 36

It is an intestinal virus and it is in diplomonadida.

Question 37

Describe Parabasala

Answer 37

Parabasal body. They are heterotrophic and they can live in the absence of oxygen. 4 to 1000's of flagella.

Question 38

What is a parabasl body?

Answer 38

Large, modified golgi apparatus.

Question 39

What is Trichomonas vaginalis and which protist clade is it a part of?

Answer 39

It is a human urogenital tract. causes STI mostly in women. It is part of parabasala.

Question 40

What is Trichonympha and which protist clade is it a part of?

Answer 40

It is in termite guts and it is a part of parabasala.

Question 41

Describe Kinetoplastida

Answer 41

It is a large mitochondrion with a large mass of DNA. Most of them are parasitic.

Question 42

What is Trypanosoma brucei and which protist clade is it a part of?

Answer 42

It is carried by a fly, called "African sleeping sickness". It is a part of kinetoplastida. They need to invade the immune system of a host.

Question 43

What is T. cruzi and which protist clade is it a part of?

Answer 43

It causes chagas disease "kissing bugs". It causes digestive and cardiac problems. It is part of kinetoplastidas.

Question 44

Describe Euglenozoa

Answer 44

Colorless heterotrophs and green photoautotrophs. They do longitudinal binary fission.

Question 45

What is Euglena and which protist clade is it a part of?

Answer 45

It has 2 flagella in the flagellar reservoir. It is part of Euglenozoa.

Question 46

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