LL - Protist and Fungi

Open Ended

Which of these images are Gram Stain Positive and which are Gram Negative?

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Spirilla

Bacilli

Cocci

Multiple Select

Which of the following are characteristics of protists?

• Eukaryotic cells

• Distinct nucleus and organelles

• Unicellular or multicellular

• All of the above

Open Ended

Describe how plant-like protists obtain their food and how this is similar to plants.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the main difference between animal-like, plant-like, and fungus-like protists?

• How they obtain nutrition

• Their cell wall structure

• Their method of reproduction

• Their habitat

Multiple Choice

Which type of protist movement involves a temporary 'foot' used for locomotion?

• Cilia

• Flagella

• Pseudopod

• Chloroplast

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of fungi?

• Fungi are eukaryotic

• Fungi are phototrophic

• Fungi reproduce via spores

• Fungi cells contain cell walls and vacuoles

Open Ended

Explain how fungi obtain nutrients and why they are classified as heterotrophs.

Multiple Select

Which of the following statements about lichens is/are correct?

• Lichens are a mutualistic relationship between a fungus and an alga or cyanobacterium

• Crustose lichens form flat crusty plates

• Foliose lichens are leafy in appearance

• Fruticose lichens are a type of fungus that grows underground

Multiple Choice

The Kingdom Protista is often called the "catch-all" kingdom, and the Kingdom Fungi was once incorrectly classified with plants. Which statement best explains the essential biological reason for keeping these two kingdoms distinct from the Animal and Plant Kingdoms?

• Fungi are absorptive heterotrophs that have cell walls made of chitin, while protists are a highly diverse group of simple eukaryotes that lack the tissue-level organization of other kingdoms.

• All protists are strictly photosynthetic, and all fungi are strictly decomposers, making their roles in the ecosystem too specialized to be grouped with plants or animals.

• Both protists and fungi are prokaryotic cells, whereas all organisms in the Animal and Plant Kingdoms are multicellular and eukaryotic.

• Protists are separated because they all live in water, and fungi are separated because they reproduce only through budding, which is unique from the other two kingdoms.

Multiple Choice

Fungi primarily grow as vast underground networks called hyphae and mycelia, while most protists live as single, independent cells in water. How does this structural difference directly relate to their methods of survival and ecological roles?

• The complex fungal network allows them to perform photosynthesis more efficiently, whereas single-celled protists are only able to survive as consumers.

• Protists use their single-cell structure for rapid sexual reproduction via spores, while the fungal network is primarily used for slow, gradual binary fission.

• Fungi use their extensive network for absorptive heterotrophy (breaking down and absorbing food externally), while protists rely on structures like pseudopods or cilia to ingest food or perform photosynthesis.

• The fungal mycelium is necessary for locomotion in search of food, while protists are stationary and must wait for nutrients to diffuse directly across their cell membrane.

Open Ended

If all the protists and fungi suddenly vanished, which global ecological cycles and human activities would be most immediately and dramatically impacted, and why?