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Which group exhibits more structural and functional diversity than any other group of
eukaryotes?
ANSWER ✔✔ Protists
What group is more complex than prokaryotes?
ANSWER ✔✔ Protists
The micronucleus in protists is involved in which process?
ANSWER ✔✔ Reproduction
What is the function of the contractile vacuole?
ANSWER ✔✔ (Osmoregulator) pumps water out of the cell
Meiosis I produces how many products?
ANSWER ✔✔ 4 products
Species in the Rhizarian clade are what?
ANSWER ✔✔ Amoebas
Amoebas are protists that move and feed using what? Describe what they are.
ANSWER ✔✔ Pseudopodia - extensions of the cell surface
, How do Rhizarian amoebas differ from amoebas in other clades?
ANSWER ✔✔ Thread-like pseudopodia
Why must conjugation happen?
ANSWER ✔✔ To allow for genetic variation
Rhizarians include which groups?
ANSWER ✔✔ Radiolarians, forams, cercozoans
What is binary fission after conjugation?
ANSWER ✔✔ Real reproduction
In what type of fossils can you measure the amount of magnesium?
ANSWER ✔✔ Forams
When did plastids arise?
ANSWER ✔✔ When a heterotrophic protist acquired a cyanobacterial endosymbiont
The photosynthetic descendants of this ancient protist evolved into what two groups?
ANSWER ✔✔ Red algae and green algae
Land plants are descended from?
ANSWER ✔✔ Green algae
Which algae are descendants from chlorophytes and charophytes?
ANSWER ✔✔ Green algae
Correct Answers | Verified By Expert | Newly
Updated 2025.
Which group exhibits more structural and functional diversity than any other group of
eukaryotes?
ANSWER ✔✔ Protists
What group is more complex than prokaryotes?
ANSWER ✔✔ Protists
The micronucleus in protists is involved in which process?
ANSWER ✔✔ Reproduction
What is the function of the contractile vacuole?
ANSWER ✔✔ (Osmoregulator) pumps water out of the cell
Meiosis I produces how many products?
ANSWER ✔✔ 4 products
Species in the Rhizarian clade are what?
ANSWER ✔✔ Amoebas
Amoebas are protists that move and feed using what? Describe what they are.
ANSWER ✔✔ Pseudopodia - extensions of the cell surface
, How do Rhizarian amoebas differ from amoebas in other clades?
ANSWER ✔✔ Thread-like pseudopodia
Why must conjugation happen?
ANSWER ✔✔ To allow for genetic variation
Rhizarians include which groups?
ANSWER ✔✔ Radiolarians, forams, cercozoans
What is binary fission after conjugation?
ANSWER ✔✔ Real reproduction
In what type of fossils can you measure the amount of magnesium?
ANSWER ✔✔ Forams
When did plastids arise?
ANSWER ✔✔ When a heterotrophic protist acquired a cyanobacterial endosymbiont
The photosynthetic descendants of this ancient protist evolved into what two groups?
ANSWER ✔✔ Red algae and green algae
Land plants are descended from?
ANSWER ✔✔ Green algae
Which algae are descendants from chlorophytes and charophytes?
ANSWER ✔✔ Green algae
