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