Protists

Question 1

What were the first eukaryotes to evolve that are also single celled organisms?

Answer 1

Protists

Question 2

Are protists single-celled, multi-celled, or both?

Answer 2

Both

Question 3

Which protista can be autotrophic, heterotrophic, and mixotrophic?

Answer 3

Protozoans

Question 4

Are most protists photosynthetic? What are three examples?

Answer 4

Yes and algae, dinoflagellates, and diatoms

Question 5

Are protists free-living? Are protists always parasitic, some, or none?

Answer 5

Yes and some

Question 6

The best-known parasitic protist that also causes malaria is what?

Answer 6

Plasmodium

Question 7

290 million people are infected each year and over 400,000 deaths from this disease?

Answer 7

Malaria

Question 8

Charophyta, rhodophyta, ochrophyta, dinoflagellata, euglenozoa, protozoa, and amoebozoa are the seven phyla of what?

Answer 8

Protista

Question 9

The phylum charophyta is more commonly known as what? What are three examples?

Answer 9

Green algae. Volvox, spirogyra, and ulva/sea lettuce

Question 10

What two protists are part of phytoplankton and takes in CO2 and produces oxygen?

Answer 10

Diatoms and dinoflagellates

Question 11

The phylum rhodophyta is more commonly known as what? What are three examples?

Answer 11

Red algae. Porphyra, coralline, and chondrus/carrageen moss

Question 12

The phylum ochrophyta is more commonly known as what? What are two examples?

Answer 12

Brown algae. Kelp/laminaria and diatoms

Question 13

50-90% of the oxygen made are by what two protists?

Answer 13

Diatoms and dinoflagellates

Question 14

What is an example of the phylum dinoflagellata?

Answer 14

Ceratium

Question 15

What is an example of the phylum euglenophyta?

Answer 15

Euglena gracilis

Question 16

The euglena gracilis is mixotrophic and feeds on smaller dinoflagellates and bacteria? True or false?

Answer 16

True

Question 17

What are two examples of the phylum amoebozoa which also causes amoebic dysentery?

Answer 17

Amoeba proteus and entamoeba histolytica

Question 17

What is an example of the phylum protozoa?

Answer 17

Paramecium multimicronucletum

Question 18

The naegleria fowleri’s common name is what?

Answer 18

Brain-eating amoeba

Question 19

Ponds, lakes, rivers, hot springs, soil, and unchlorinated swimming pools are where what protist is found?

Answer 19

Brain-eating amoeba

Question 20

In 1962-2018, 149 people have been infected by the brain-eating amoeba. How many survived, leaving a 97.25% fatality rate?

Answer 20

4 people