BIOL112 SI- 2/26

Process by which cell membrane engulfs a food particle is called ___.

• phototaxis

• phagocytosis

• pseudopodia

• photosynthesis

Heterotrophs that get their nutrients from dead/decaying organisms are called ___.

• photoautotrophs

• heterotrophic protists

• saprobes

• mixotrophs

Which is NOT true about protist cell structure?

• Can be encase in pellicles.

• Most are unicellular.

• Do not contain nuclei.

• May be enveloped by animal-like membranes or plant-like cell walls.

Diverse eukaryotes that are most commonly microscopic and unicellular can be classified as ___.

• Plants

• Protists

• Fungi

• Animals

Mitochondrion evolved from endosymbiosis of what cell?

• cyanobacteria

• red algae

• photosynthetic prokaryote

• heterotrophic bacterium

Which of these terms related to protist motility involves anchoring to another surface?

• flagella

• cilia

• pseudopodia

Endocytosis and exocytosis are exmaples of cellular ___.

• transport

• signaling

• feeding

• communication

Which organelle do protists NOT have?

• ER

• phagolysosomes

• vacuoles

• chloroplasts

Pellicles are used to ___.

• perform secondary endosymbiosis

• prevent cell from being torn

• combine photosynthesis and heterotrophic nutrition

• fuse vacuoles to cellular membrane

Leeuwenhoek was able to discover protists by ___.

• observing them in a lab

• creating a microscope

• noticing eukaryotes that could not be classified

• creating a telescope