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Question 1
A key characteristic of protists is that at some point during their life cycles they must include
water
Question 2
A type of protist characterized by great flexibility and the presence of psuedopods
Amoeba
Question 3
A protist is any .... organism (one with cells containing a nucleus) that is not an animal, plant or fungus.
Question 4
Holds the chlorophyll and needed for photosynthesis
chloroplast
Question 5
Amoebas anchor to nearby surfaces using extensions of cytoplasm called:
pseudopods
Question 6
The side-by-side reproduction of two paramecia where nuclear material is exchanged is called
conjugation
Question 7
Paramecia use .... to remove excess water from the cell.
Question 8
A protist that has single flagellum to move itself and can obtain its nutrients by photosynthesis:
Euglena
Question 9
An area on a protist that is sensitive to the amount of light in the environment
Eye Spot
Question 10
A colony of green algae, resembling a hollow ball:
Volvox
Question 11
A part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction:
Nucleus
Question 12
An organism that cannot make it's own food and eats other things:
Heterotroph
Question 13
Storage of food in a protist is called:
food vacuole
Question 14
A long, whiplike structure that helps a cell to move:
flagelum
Question 15
A hairlike projections that extend from the plasma membrane and are used for movement:
Cilla
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