protists

Which of the following is not a true statement about the kingdom Protista?

• It is an artificial grouping.
• Its members are placed there as a matter of convenience.
  
• Although diverse, the group represents a closely related group evolutionarily.
  
• It contains unicellular, colonial, and multicellular groups.

Which of the following lists contains a locomotor mechanism not possessed by protists?

• pseudopodia, cilia, and flagella
• flagella, axopodia, and pseudopodia
• flagella, pseudopodia, and tube feet
• cilia and pseudopodia

Producing a vaccine against the tsetse fly-borne trypanosomes is very difficult because

• tsetse flies are hard to grow in captivity
  
• trypanosomes each have over a thousand genes for antigens but express only one at a time
• the disease is only expressed in humans and experimental subjects are hard to get

The Phaeophyta are the _______________ algae.

• brown 
• green
• red
• yellow-green 

Amoebas reproduce by

• budding 
• fission
• sporulation 
• sporic meiosis followed by syngamy
  

A common genus of marine green algae is

• ulva
• chara
• porphora
• nitella

A thick cell wall forms around the oomycete zygote, resulting in

• an endospore
• an oospore
• a macrospore
  
• a zoospore

Which of the following is not a group used in the text to classify protists?

• Mastigophora
• Sarcodina
• Sporozoans
• Molds

Malaria results from a mosquito injecting the _______________ of Plasmodium into the human blood stream.

• sporocyst
• merozoites
• gametocytes
• sporozoites

All of the following belong to the kingdom Protista except

• viruses 
• fungi
• sporozoans
• sarcodines