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What domain and kingdom do protists belong to?
- Domain: Eukarya
- Kingdom: Protista
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Are protists prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
Eukaryotes
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Why are algae important to the aquatic food chain?
Sunlight- Producers- Consumers
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What did the marine iguanas eat in the Galapogos?
green algae
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What algae has silica in their cell walls?
green algae
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Be able to match the type for the uses on next few cards
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a. Added to paint for headlight refection, toothpaste for polishing teeth, and swimming pool filters
Diatoms
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Kelp, the largest algae
Brown algae
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Causes "red tide" that kills fish
Dinoflagellates
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Source of agar for culturing bacteria, and gel caps for vitamins and drugs
Red algae
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Source of algin to prevent ice crystals from forming in ice cream.
Brown algae
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"Sea lettuce" in Galapogos Islands
Green algae
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Are the protozoans prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
eukaryotes
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Who discovered protozoans?
Leeuwenhoek
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Describe the flagellum and how it works.
long, slender cellular structure used for motility. The flagellum whips from side to side
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What protozoan contaminates fresh water streams in the U.S. and causes severe diarrhea?
Giaradia lamblia
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What causes African Sleeping Sickness?
Trypanosoma Brucei
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How is the African Sleeping Sickness transmitted?
From the saliva of the tse tse fly to humans
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An insect or some other animal that carries a pathogen between hosts: ex. mosquito that transmits malaria.
Vector
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Label the diagram of the euglena.
- 1. Eyespot
- 2.Flagellum
- 3. Chloroplast
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What is the function of the eyespot?
The eyespot helps euglena detect light
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How is Chagas's disease transmitted? What famous scientist probably suffered from it?
The kissing bug bites face, defecate leaving protozoans in feces. Charles Darwin
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How do paramecium and stentors move?
they move using cilia
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Label the diagram of the paramecium.
- 1. gullet
- 2. food vacuole
- 3. cilia
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What is the most primitive type of sexual reproduction that is exhibited by ciliated protozoans?
conjugation
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What are the most complex protozoans?
Ciliates
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How do Amoeba proteus move?
they move using pseudopods.
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Label the diagram fo the amoeba.
- 1. Contractile vacoule
- 2. Pseudopod
- 3. Food vacuole
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What organism causes amoebic dysentery and contaminates most drinking water supplies in the world?
Entamoeba histolytica
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What disease does Plasmodium vivax cause?
Malaria
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What is the vector of malaria?
The mosquito or the female Anopheles mosquito
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What class of protozoans resmebles both amoeboids and fungi and are often found in east Texas woodlands on dead, rotting logs?
Slime molds
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What formed the White Cliffs of Dover and forms chalk?
Foraminiferans and radiolarians
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