Unicellular Eukaryotic Parasites, Parasitic Helminths, Fungi

What is the role of pseudopodia in the Amoeba?

• Store food until it is digested.
• Transcription
• Movement throughout its watery environment
• Regulates how much water goes into the cell. 

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What is an amoeba?

• an amoeba is a eukaryotic, plant-like autotrophic protist who absorbs sunlight with the organelle called "chloroplasts"
• an amoeba is a eukaryotic, animal-like heterotrophic protist who has to go find its food by using its pseudopods.
• an amoeba is a eukaryotic, fungi-like decomposer who eats dead, rotting matter using its pseudopods.

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Which of the following best describes a protist?

• Unicellular eukaryote

• Unicellular prokaryote

• Multicellular eukaryote

• Multicellular prokaryote

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Which of the following best describes the function of a pseudopod?

• A "fake foot" that helps the cell move & eat

• Cell hairs that help the cell move

• A cell tail that helps the cell move

• It pumps water out of the cell

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Which of the following best describes the function of cilia?

• A "fake foot" that helps the cell move & eat

• Cell hairs that help the cell move

• A cell tail that helps the cell move

• It pumps water out of the cell

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Which of the following best describes the function of an eyespot?

• It helps the cell detect light / see

• Cell hairs that help the cell move

• A cell tail that helps the cell move

• It pumps water out of the cell

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Which protist is this?

• Euglena
• Plasmodium
• Water mold
• Algae

Which protist is this?

• Amoeba
• Paramecium
• Plasmodium

Which group of fungi obtain their energy from dead, decaying organic matter?

• Saprophytic
• Parasitic
•  Cilia
• Symbiotic

Fungi reproduce

• only asexually.
• only sexually.
• both asexually and sexually.
• by budding only.

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