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Chapter 25
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Biology
9th Grade
02/23/2015

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All protists have
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a nucleus
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You have been given an unknown organism to identify.  You find that it is unicellular and has mitochondira.  It must also have
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a nucleus
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Pseudopodia are used for
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movement
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When paramecia join together to exchange parts of their genetic material, it is called
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mitosis

pollination

and

conjugation

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Giardiasis is a disease that is spread by
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water
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Sleeping sickness is spread by
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tsetse flies
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The following are human diseases caused by protists...
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amebiasis

malaria

dysentery

giardiasis

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The symptoms of malaria include
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fatigue

chills

fever

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The protist tht causes malaria reproduces in the red blood cells of a
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human
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The Plasmodium that develops in mosquitoes, injected into humans is in the stage called a
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sporozoite
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Diatoms are of great value because they
Definition

produce most of the oxygen on Earth,


are producers and are eaten by heterotrophs,


and produce diatomaceous earth used in detergents, paint, and toothpaste

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Algal blooms are caused by high concentrations of aquatic
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nutrients
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Algae can be
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multicellular, unicellular, colonial, and filamentous
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Algae can be found in these environments...
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ponds

rivers

lakes

ocean

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Green algae and plants have these traits in common...
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photosynthetic pigments, store starch as food, and cell walls made of cellulose
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The type of algae that is most like plants is
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multicellular
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Although algae are relatively unspecialized, they may have structures specialized for ...
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anchoring to the ocean bottom, reproduction, and movement
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Which of the following is not  characteristic used to classify algae?
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the habitat they live in
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of the phylum Chlorophyta?
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only unicellular forms
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The algal phylum that produces the most photosynthetic products for heterotrophs on Earth is
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bacillariophyta
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Euglena is an example of a protist that
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is both autotrophic and heterotrophic.
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In which environment would you most likely find a slime mold?
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a wood chip pile
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In our protist lab, we observed
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volvox, euglena, stentor, and diatoms
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What protist in our lab was a heterotroph?
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stentor, amoeba, paramecium, and vorticella
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3 of the 8  protists we observed in our lab belong to the phylum
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ciliophora
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The following was not a protist in our lab activity...
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plasmodium, bacillaria, noctiluca, and entamoeba
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These are not a disease caused by a protist...
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roseola, rabies, leukemia, and hepatitis
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About 10 million tons of which protist is harvested and consumed in Asian diets each year?
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kelp
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Contractile vacuoles in Paramecium are used for taking in
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water
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These members of the phylum apicomplexa can cause disease in humans
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plasmodium

toxoplasma

cryptosporidium

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Which phylum of protists has members that can produce bioluminescent compounds?
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dinophlagellata
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Important products from red and brown algae are
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agar

kombu

alginate

carrageenan

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Extracts from protist are used in the production of
Definition

cosmetics

ice cream

gel-caps

textiles

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Members of which phylum are likely to have caused more human deaths than any other pathogen on Earth?
Definition
apicomplexa
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