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Chapter 5
Protista chapter
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
10/07/2013

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What shape is an amoeba?
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Free-from assymetrical
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What shape is a ciliate?
Definition
Slipper, worm, or funnel
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What shape is a flagellate?
Definition
torpedo or pear
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What protist moves by pseudopodia?
Definition
Amoebas
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What protist moves by cilia?
Definition
Ciliates
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What protist moves by flagella?
Definition
Flagellates
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How does an amoeba feed?
Definition
Phagocytosis, heterotrophic
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How does a ciliate feed?
Definition
holozoic, heterotrophic
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How does a flagellate feed?
Definition
autotrophic or heterotrophic saprozoic
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How do amoeba reproduce?
Definition
binary fission
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How do ciliates reproduce?
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Asexual or sexual called congugation
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How do flagellates reproduce?
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asexually
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What fuses with a lysosome in an amoeba to to break down food?
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Food vacuole
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What is surrounding and forming a vacuole around food?
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Phagocytosis
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Contractile vacuoles are used to
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expel excess water taken up by the cell through osmosis
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