BIOL 1002 Chapter 20 The diversity of protists life on earth with physiology 10th edition

Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology, 10e (Audesirk)
Chapter 20 The Diversity of Protists

20.1 Multiple Choice Questions

1) Which one of the following groups is characterized as eukaryotic?
A) Viruses
B) Bacteria
C) Prions
D) Cyanobacteria
E) Protists
Answer: E
Diff: 1
Section: 20.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension

2) Which of the following best fits into the protist's group?
A) Plants
B) Animals
C) Fungi
D) Prokaryotes
E) Any eukaryote that is not a plant, animal, or fungus
Answer: E
Diff: 1
Section: 20.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension

3) A protist that lives inside a host organism and absorbs nutrients from that living host is
A) photosynthetic.
B) parasitic.
C) predatory.
D) symbiotic.
E) a decomposer.
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Section: 19.4, 20.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension




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,4) Protists
A) are prokaryotic.
B) develop embryos during reproduction.
C) form a single clade.
D) carry out photosynthesis without chloroplasts.
E) obtain nutrition through a variety of different methods.
Answer: E
Diff: 1
Section: 20.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension

5) Protists that absorb nutrients from dead organic matter are called
A) photosynthetic.
B) parasitic.
C) predatory.
D) symbiotic.
E) decomposers.
Answer: E
Diff: 1
Section: 20.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension

6) Protist photosynthesis relies on
A) pseudopods.
B) chloroplasts.
C) pseudoplasmodia.
D) eyespots.
E) silica.
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Section: 20.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension

7) The first protist chloroplast was likely to have been a(n)
A) virus.
B) chemosynthetic bacterium.
C) photosynthetic bacterium.
D) example of secondary endosymbiosis.
E) symbiotic green alga.
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Section: 20.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension




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, 8) Secondary endosymbiosis can occur when a
A) virus infects a photosynthetic prokaryote.
B) nonphotosynthetic protist engulfs a photosynthetic bacterium.
C) nonphotosynthetic protist engulfs a photosynthetic protist.
D) protist evolves to become a prokaryote.
E) green alga engulfs a photosynthetic bacterium.
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Section: 20.1
Skill: Application/Analysis

9) ________ are photosynthetic protists.
A) Prokaryotes
B) Fungi
C) Algae
D) Plants
E) Parasites
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Section: 20.1
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension

10) The foundation of a marine food chain is
A) viruses.
B) fungi.
C) Archaea.
D) plants.
E) algae.
Answer: E
Diff: 2
Section: 20.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension

11) A flagellated protist lives inside the guts of termites and enables the termites to digest the
cellulose in wood as a food source. This protist belongs to the
A) apicomplexans.
B) amoebas.
C) Archaea.
D) parabasalids.
E) ciliates.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Section: 20.2
Skill: Knowledge/Comprehension



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