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Protists
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6th Grade
12/16/2008

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Term
Aristotle's two-kingdom classification system?
Definition
Becuase protists are not a plant or an animal.
Term
Why don' you think the protist kingdom i called the "middle kingdom"?
Definition
They are in the middle of plants and animals.
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How are multi-celled protists simpler thn multi-celled plants or animals?
Definition
They lack organelles.
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How are single-celled protists more complex tha single-celled monerans?
Definition
Protists can be producers or consumers but monerans can't.
Term
What are the three basic groups of protists?
Definition
Plant-like, fungi-like, animal-like.
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Where do most protists live?
Definition
In damp and moist areas.
Term
Where do protists get there food?
Definition
Photosynthesis.
Term
How do protists move?
Definition
Fake feet.
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What does protozoan mean?
Definition
Animal like protist.
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By wat charecteristic did scientists decideto classify protozoans?
Definition
By the way of movement.
Term
Why is it important to keep a good, clean water supply?
Definition
Beause you could get dysenteren.
Term
What causes the disease known as African Sleeping Sickness?
Definition
Trypanasoma.
Term
How are paramecium different from most other protozoans?
Definition
Protozoans have 1 nucleas, paramecium have two.
Term
What kind of relationship is called commensalism?
Definition
When they share food with the host organelles.
Term
How is the prtozoan Plasmodium falciparum transmitted to humans?
Definition
By mosquitoes.
Term
What is a parasite?
Definition
An organism that attaches to a host-cell.
Term
Most funguslike protists make their own food?
Definition
True
Term
Slime molds prefer cool, moist, shady areas?
Definition
True
Term
Slime molds are not able to move at any stage in their life?
Definition
False
Term
Slime molds are classified wit protists because they have cell walls mde of chitin?
Definition
False
Term
Most of Ireland's potatoe crop was ruined by water mold in the 1940's
Definition
False
Term
Water molds can kill fish in an aquarium?
Definition
True
Term
Fungus-like protists have some characteristics like fungi, but they have more characteristics like protists?
Definition
True
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All scientists agree on the classification of fungus-like protists.
Definition
False
Term
Slime molds reproduce with spores?
Definition
True
Term
Slime molds are always brown?
Definition
False
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