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For CAMPBELL BIOLOGY, NINTH EDITION

Jane B. Reece, Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Robert B. Jackson

Chapter 28

Protists

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Questions prepared by

William Wischusen
Louisiana State University

Michael Dini
Texas Tech University

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Which of the following is a correct statement

about slime molds?
a) Cellular slime molds have haploid zygotes.
b) Cytoplasmic streaming helps distribute nutrients and
oxygen in cellular slime molds
c) In plasmodial slime molds, the haploid condition is the
dominant part of the life cycle.
d) Cellular slime molds have fruiting bodies that function in
sexual reproduction.
e) Cellular slime molds form masses when food is scarce, but
their cells remain separated.

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The greatest number of eukaryotic organisms

are

a) vertebrates.
b) animals.
c) plants.
d) protists.
e) fungi.

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Photosynthetic eukaryotes contain both

mitochondria and chloroplasts. Which sequence
most likely describes the evolution of this group?

a) Ancestral anaerobic prokaryote engulfs heterotrophic

prokaryote, then engulfs photosynthetic prokaryote.
b) Ancestral anaerobic prokaryote engulfs photosynthetic
prokaryote, then engulfs heterotrophic prokaryote.
c) Both sequences are equally likely.

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The amoeboid condition is widely distributed

among unrelated eukaryotic taxa. The best
explanation for this seems to be
a) homology.
b) convergence.
c) horizontal gene transfer.

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Hydrogenosomes, nucleomorphs, mitosomes,

and kinetoplasts are all evidence of
a) endocytosis.
b) serial endosymbiosis.
c) endosymbiosis.
d) exocytosis.
e) vertical gene transfer.

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Diatoms are members of the phytoplankton,

are surrounded by relatively dense silica
cases, and lack flagella. Consequently, what is
their greatest challenge to survival?

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Red tides can cause massive fish kills. One

reason may be that red-tide organisms secrete
deadly neurotoxins. Another reason is less
direct. What might it be? (HINT: What
happens to the bloom when the conditions that
caused it to occur are no longer present?)

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