Deck 28: Protists

Question 1

Which of the following is a characteristic of the water moulds (oomycetes)?

A)the presence of filamentous feeding structures
B)zoospores that are spread by breezes
C)the same nutritional mode as possessed by cyanobacteria
D)a morphological similarity to fungi that is the result of common ancestry
E)a feeding Plasmodium

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which process could have allowed the nucleomorphs of chlorarachniophytes to be reduced, without the net loss of any genetic information?

A)conjugation
B)horizontal gene transfer
C)binary fission
D)phagocytosis
E)meiosis

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following is characteristic of ciliates?

A)They use pseudopods as locomotory structures or as feeding structures.
B)They are relatively specialized cells.
C)They can exchange genetic material with other ciliates by the process of mitosis.
D)Most live as solitary autotrophs in fresh water.
E)They are often multinucleate.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

You are given an unknown organism to identify. It is unicellular and heterotrophic. It is motile, using many short extensions of the cytoplasm, each featuring the 9 + 2 filament pattern. It has well-developed organelles and three nuclei, one large and two small. This organism is most likely to be a member of which group?

A)foraminiferans
B)radiolarians
C)ciliates
D)kinetoplastids
E)slime moulds

Question 5

Apicomplexans

A)are mostly free-living.
B)are photosynthetic.
C)have life cycles with sexual and asexual stages.
D)include Plasmodium, which requires two hosts.
E)C and D

Question 6

If we were to apply the most recent technique used to fight potato late blight to the fight against the malarial infection of humans, then we would

A)increase the dosage of the least-expensive antimalarial drug administered to humans.
B)increase the dosage of the most common pesticide used to kill Anopheles mosquitoes.
C)introduce a predator of the malarial parasite into infected humans.
D)use a "cocktail" of at least three different pesticides against Anopheles mosquitoes.
E)insert genes from a Plasmodium-resistant strain of mosquito into Anopheles mosquitoes.

Question 7

Which of the following was derived from an ancestral cyanobacterium?

A)chloroplast
B)mitochondrion
C)hydrogenosome
D)mitosome
E)Two of the responses above are correct.

Question 8

Biologists have long been aware that the defunct kingdom Protista is polyphyletic. Which of these statements is most consistent with this conclusion?

A)Many species within this kingdom were once classified as monerans.
B)Animals, plants, and fungi arose from different protist ancestors.
C)The eukaryotic condition has evolved more than once among the protists.
D)Chloroplasts among various protists are similar to those found in prokaryotes.
E)Some protists, all animals, and all fungi share a protist common ancestor, but these protists, animals, and fungi are currently assigned to three different kingdoms.

Question 9

Which process results in genetic recombination, but is separate from the process by which the population size of Paramecium increases?

A)budding
B)meiotic division
C)mitotic division
D)conjugation
E)binary fission

Question 10

An individual mixotroph loses its plastids, yet continues to survive. Which of the following most likely accounts for its continued survival?

A)It relies on photosystems that float freely in its cytosol.
B)It must have gained extra mitochondria when it lost its plastids.
C)It engulfs organic material by phagocytosis or by absorption.
D)It has an endospore.
E)It is protected by a case made of silica.

Question 11

A large seaweed that floats freely on the surface of deep bodies of water would be expected to lack which of the following?

A)thalli
B)bladders
C)holdfasts
D)gel-forming polysaccharides

Question 12

Why is the filamentous morphology of the water moulds considered a case of convergent evolution?

A)Water moulds evolved from filamentous fungi.
B)Body shape reflects ancestor-descendant relationships among organisms.
C)In both cases, filamentous shape is an adaptation for the absorptive nutritional mode of a decomposer.
D)Filamentous body shape is evolutionarily ancestral for all eukaryotes.
E)Both the first and second responses above are correct.

Question 13

According to the endosymbiotic theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells, how did mitochondria originate?

A)from infoldings of the plasma membrane, coupled with mutations of genes for proteins in energy-transfer reactions
B)from engulfed, originally free-living proteobacteria
C)by secondary endosymbiosis
D)from the nuclear envelope folding outward and forming mitochondrial membranes
E)when a protoeukaryote engaged in a symbiotic relationship with a protocell

Question 14

Which two genera have members that can evade the human immune system by frequently changing their surface proteins? 1. Plasmodium
2. Trichomonas
3. Paramecium
4. Trypanosoma
5. Entamoeba

A)1 and 2
B)1 and 4
C)2 and 3
D)2 and 4
E)4 and 5

Question 15

Which of the following pairs of protists and their characteristics is mismatched?

A)apicomplexans-internal parasites
B)golden algae-planktonic producers
C)euglenozoans-unicellular flagellates
D)ciliates-red tide organisms
E)entamoebas-ingestive heterotrophs

Question 16

All protists are

A)unicellular.
B)eukaryotic.
C)symbionts.
D)monophyletic.
E)mixotrophic.

Question 17

Which of the following statements about dinoflagellates is true?

A)They possess two flagella.
B)All known varieties are autotrophic.
C)Their walls are usually composed of silica plates.
D)Many types lack mitochondria.
E)Their dead cells accumulate on the seafloor, and are mined to serve as a filtering material.

Question 18

Diatoms are mostly asexual members of the phytoplankton. Diatoms lack any organelles that might have the 9 + 2 pattern. They obtain their nutrition from functional chloroplasts, and each diatom is encased within two porous, glasslike valves. Which question would be most important for one interested in the day-to-day survival of individual diatoms?

A)How does carbon dioxide get into these protists with their glasslike valves?
B)How do diatoms get transported from one location on the water's surface layers to another location on the surface?
C)How do diatoms with their glasslike valves keep from sinking into poorly lit waters?
D)How do diatoms with their glasslike valves avoid being shattered by the action of waves?
E)How do diatom sperm cells locate diatom egg cells?

Question 19

In alternation of generation in brown algae, which pair is incorrectly matched?

A)sporophyte - is diploid and produces spores
B)sporangia - produce zoospores by mitosis
C)zoospores - develop into female and male gametophytes
D)eggs - remain attached to the female gametophyte
E)zygote - grows into new sporophyte

Question 20

Ciliates do not

A)reproduce sexually by conjugation.
B)reproduce asexually by binary fission.
C)contain two types of nuclei, micro- and macronuclei.
D)contain genes in the macronucleus that control the functions of the cell.
E)utilize cilia to move and feed.

Question 21

You are designing an artificial drug-delivery "cell" that can penetrate animal cells. Which of these protist structures should provide the most likely avenue for research along these lines?

A)pseudopods
B)apical complex
C)excavated feeding grooves
D)nucleomorphs
E)mitosomes

Question 22

A snail-like, coiled, porous test (shell)of calcium carbonate is characteristic of which group?

A)diatoms
B)foraminiferans
C)radiolarians
D)gymnamoebas

Question 23

The chloroplasts of all of the following are thought to be derived from ancestral red algae, except those of

A)golden algae.
B)diatoms.
C)dinoflagellates.
D)green algae.
E)brown algae.

Question 24

Similar to most amoebozoans, the forams and the radiolarians also have pseudopods, as do some of the white blood cells of animals (monocytes). If one were to erect a taxon that included all organisms that have cells with pseudopods, what would be true of such a taxon?

A)It would be polyphyletic.
B)It would be paraphyletic.
C)It would be monophyletic.
D)It would include all eukaryotes.

Question 25

The chloroplasts of land plants are thought to have been derived according to which evolutionary sequence?

A)cyanobacteria → green algae → land plants
B)cyanobacteria → green algae → fungi → land plants
C)red algae → brown algae → green algae → land plants
D)cyanobacteria → red algae → green algae → land plants

Question 26

The following questions refer to the description below.
You and a friend were walking through a pet store looking at the different aquaria with fish. Most of the aquaria had fish that were healthy and colourful, but two tanks with many fish in them had fish with "fin and tail rot" caused by a pathogenic bacteria. You and your friend read that bacteria are found in most environments and that healthy fish are quite resistant to bacterial infections.

Test tube 2 contains

A)Paramecium.
B)Navicula (diatom).
C)Pfiesteria (dinoflagellate).
D)Entamoeba.
E)Plasmodium.

Question 27

Reinforced, threadlike pseudopods that can perform phagocytosis are generally characteristic of which group?

A)radiolarians and forams
B)gymnamoebas
C)entamoebas
D)amoeboid stage of cellular slime moulds
E)oomycetes

Question 28

A biologist discovers an alga that is marine, multicellular, and lives at a depth reached only by blue light. This alga probably belongs to which group?

A)red algae
B)brown algae
C)green algae
D)dinoflagellates
E)golden algae

Question 29

Why do photosynthetic protists play a critical role in aquatic ecosystems?

A)Photosynthetic protists and prokaryotes are the major producers that form the critical base of food webs.
B)Photosynthetic dinoflagellates are in a mutualistic symbiotic association with coral, and coral reefs are one of the most diverse and productive biomes on earth.
C)They outcompete the non-photosynthetic parasitic protists.
D)They form colonies that cover the water's surface, which allows anaerobic organisms to thrive.
E)A and B

Question 30

Which of the following is correctly described as a primary producer?

A)oomycete
B)kinetoplastid
C)apicomplexan
D)diatom
E)radiolarian

Question 31

Green algae differ from land plants in that many green algae

A)are heterotrophs.
B)are unicellular.
C)have plastids.
D)have alternation of generations.
E)have cell walls containing cellulose.

Question 32

You are given the task of designing an aquatic protist that is a primary producer. It cannot swim on its own, yet must stay in well-lit surface waters. It must be resistant to physical damage from wave action. It should be most similar to a(n)

A)diatom.
B)dinoflagellate.
C)apicomplexan.
D)red alga.
E)radiolarian.

Question 33

A gelatinous seaweed that grows in shallow, cold water and undergoes heteromorphic alternation of generations is most probably what type of alga?

A)red
B)green
C)brown
D)yellow

Question 34

If the Archaeplastidae are eventually designated a kingdom, and if land plants are excluded from this kingdom, then what will be true of this new kingdom?

A)It will be monophyletic.
B)It will more accurately depict evolutionary relationships than does the current taxonomy.
C)It will be paraphyletic.
D)It will be a true clade.
E)It will be polyphyletic.

Question 35

Which of the following statements concerning protists is true?

A)All protists have mitochondria, though in some species they are much reduced and known by different names.
B)The primary organism that transmits malaria to humans by its bite is the tsetse fly.
C)All apicomplexans are autotrophic.
D)All slime moulds have an amoeboid stage that may be followed by a stage during which spores are produced.
E)Euglenozoans that are mixotrophic lack functional chloroplasts.

Question 36

Which pair of alternatives is highlighted by the life cycle of the cellular slime moulds, such as Dictyostelium?

A)prokaryotic or eukaryotic
B)unicellular or multicellular
C)diploid or haploid
D)autotroph or heterotroph

Question 37

Living diatoms contain brownish plastids. If global warming causes blooms of diatoms in the surface waters of Earth's oceans, how might this be harmful to the animals that build coral reefs?

A)The coral animals, which capture planktonic organisms, may be outcompeted by the diatoms.
B)The coral animals' endosymbiotic dinoflagellates may get "shaded out" by the diatoms.
C)The coral animals may die from overeating the plentiful diatoms, with their cases of silica.
D)The diatoms' photosynthetic output may over-oxygenate the water.

Question 38

Which of the following are actual mutualistic partnerships that involve a protist and a host organism?

A)cellulose-digesting gut protists-wood-eating termites
B)dinoflagellates-reef-building coral animals
C)Trichomonas-humans
D)algae-certain foraminiferans
E)all except that involving humans

Question 39

You are given the task of designing an aerobic, mixotrophic protist that can perform photosynthesis in fairly deep water (for example, 250 m deep), and can also crawl about and engulf small particles. With which two of the following structures would you provide your protist? 1. hydrogenosome
2. apicoplast
3. pseudopods
4. chloroplast from red alga
5. chloroplast from green alga

A)1 and 2
B)2 and 3
C)2 and 4
D)3 and 4
E)4 and 5

Question 40

The best evidence for not classifying the slime moulds as fungi comes from slime moulds'

A)DNA sequences.
B)nutritional modes.
C)choice of habitats.
D)physical appearance.
E)reproductive methods.

Question 41

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
During passage through the large intestine, a trophozoite will often secrete a case around itself, forming a cyst. Cysts contain four haploid nuclei. When cysts "hatch" within a new host, two trophozoites are released. Thus, which of the following must happen within the cyst, prior to hatching? 1. meiosis
2. nuclear division
3. S phase
4. binary fission

A)1 only
B)1 and 2
C)2 and 3
D)2 and 4
E)2, 3, and 4

Question 42

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
The cysts of Giardia are most analogous to the

A)mitochondria of ancestral diplomonads.
B)nuclei of archaeans.
C)endospores of bacteria.
D)capsids of viruses.

Question 43

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
The mitosome of Giardia has no DNA within it. If it did contain DNA, then what predictions should we be able to make about its DNA? 1. It is linear.
2. It is circular.
3. It has many introns.
4. It has few introns.
5. It is not associated with histone proteins.
6. It is complexed with histone proteins.

A)1, 3, and 5
B)1, 4, and 5
C)2, 3, and 6
D)2, 4, and 5
E)2, 4, and 6

Question 44

The next few questions refer to the following description and table.
Diatoms are encased in Petri-platelike cases (valves) made of translucent hydrated silica whose thickness can be varied. The material used to store excess calories can also be varied. At certain times, diatoms store excess calories in the form of the liquid polysaccharide, laminarin, and at other times as oil. The following are data concerning the density (specific gravity) of various components of diatoms, and of their environment.
Specific Gravities of Materials Relevant to Diatoms

Using dead diatoms to "pump" CO₂ to the seafloor is feasible only if dead diatoms sink quickly. Consequently, application of mineral fertilizers, such as iron, should be most effective at times when diatom valves

A)are thickest, and laminarin is being produced rather than oil.
B)are thickest, and oil is being produced rather than laminarin.
C)are thinnest, and laminarin is being produced rather than oil.
D)are thinnest, and oil is being produced rather than laminarin.

Question 45

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
Giardia's mitosome can be said to be "doubly degenerate," because it is a degenerate form of a ________, an organelle that is itself a degenerate form of a(n)________.

A)nucleus; archaean
B)nucleus; bacterium
C)mitochondrion; proteobacterium
D)mitochondrion; spirochete
E)chloroplast; cyanobacterium

Question 46

The following questions refer to the description below.
You and a friend were walking through a pet store looking at the different aquaria with fish. Most of the aquaria had fish that were healthy and colourful, but two tanks with many fish in them had fish with "fin and tail rot" caused by a pathogenic bacteria. You and your friend read that bacteria are found in most environments and that healthy fish are quite resistant to bacterial infections.

Test tube 5 contains

A)Paramecium.
B)Navicula (diatom).
C)Pfiesteria (dinoflagellate).
D)Entamoeba.
E)Plasmodium.

Question 47

The following questions refer to the description below.
You and a friend were walking through a pet store looking at the different aquaria with fish. Most of the aquaria had fish that were healthy and colourful, but two tanks with many fish in them had fish with "fin and tail rot" caused by a pathogenic bacteria. You and your friend read that bacteria are found in most environments and that healthy fish are quite resistant to bacterial infections.

Test tube 3 contains

A)Paramecium.
B)Navicula (diatom).
C)Pfiesteria (dinoflagellate).
D)Entamoeba.
E)Plasmodium.

Question 48

The following questions refer to the description below.
You and a friend were walking through a pet store looking at the different aquaria with fish. Most of the aquaria had fish that were healthy and colourful, but two tanks with many fish in them had fish with "fin and tail rot" caused by a pathogenic bacteria. You and your friend read that bacteria are found in most environments and that healthy fish are quite resistant to bacterial infections.

A distinguishing feature of the organism in test tube 3 is

A)the requirement of 2 hosts to complete its life cycle.
B)absence of flagella.
C)that it is a major component of zooplankton.
D)walls are made of silica.
E)cilia used for feeding.

Question 49

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
Given that Flagyl produces only minor side effects (if any)in humans, and given the set of parasites that it kills, Flagyl's mode of action probably involves

A)peptidoglycan.
B)mitochondria or mitosomes.
C)anaerobic metabolic pathways.
D)nuclear envelopes.
E)microtubules.

Question 50

The following questions refer to the description below.
You and a friend were walking through a pet store looking at the different aquaria with fish. Most of the aquaria had fish that were healthy and colourful, but two tanks with many fish in them had fish with "fin and tail rot" caused by a pathogenic bacteria. You and your friend read that bacteria are found in most environments and that healthy fish are quite resistant to bacterial infections.

Test tube 4 contains

A)Paramecium.
B)Navicula (diatom).
C)Pfiesteria (dinoflagellate).
D)Entamoeba.
E)Plasmodium.

Question 51

The next few questions refer to the following description and table.
Diatoms are encased in Petri-platelike cases (valves) made of translucent hydrated silica whose thickness can be varied. The material used to store excess calories can also be varied. At certain times, diatoms store excess calories in the form of the liquid polysaccharide, laminarin, and at other times as oil. The following are data concerning the density (specific gravity) of various components of diatoms, and of their environment.
Specific Gravities of Materials Relevant to Diatoms

Water's density and, consequently, its buoyancy decrease at warmer temperatures. Based on this consideration and using data from the table, at which time of year should one expect diatoms to be storing excess calories mostly as oil?

A)mid-winter
B)early spring
C)late summer
D)late fall

Question 52

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
Unlike most excavates, Giardia trophozoites have no oral groove and are unable to form food vacuoles. Thus, we should expect its nutrition (mostly glucose)to come from

A)its mitosomes.
B)endosymbiotic cyanobacteria.
C)the ventral disk by which it adheres to the intestinal lining.
D)osmosis involving aquaporins.
E)plasma membrane proteins that are transporters or pumps.

Question 53

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
Given its mode of reproduction and internal structures, which of the following should be expected to occur in Giardia at some stage of its life cycle? 1. separation (segregation)of daughter chromosomes
2. crossing over
3. meiosis

A)1 only
B)3 only
C)1 and 2
D)1 and 3
E)2 and 3

Question 54

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
Diplomonads, such as Giardia, contain two haploid nuclei per trophozoite. Thus, during the G₁ phase of the cell cycle, there should be a total of how many unreplicated chromosomes per trophozoite, and during the G₂ phase, how many replicated chromosomes per trophozoite?

A)5; 5
B)5; 10
C)10; 10
D)10; 20
E)20; 20

Question 55

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
The trophozoites of Giardia were first observed in 1681 in the diarrhea stools of the first known person to view protists with a microscope, a person named

A)Robert Koch.
B)Robert Hooke.
C)Isaac Newton.
D)van Leeuwenhoek.
E)Louis Pasteur.

Question 56

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
The primary treatment for giardiasis (infection with Giardia), as well as for trichomoniasis (infection with Trichomonas vaginalis)and for amoebic dysentery (infection with Entamoeba histolytica), is a drug marketed as Flagyl (generic name is metronidazole). The drug also kills anaerobic gut bacteria. Consequently, which of these are cues that Flagyl's mode of action has nothing to do with attacking or disabling the parasites' flagella, as the drug's name might imply? 1. It would also harm the flagellated lining of the human intestine.
2. Entamoeba possesses pseudopods, not flagella, yet it is killed by Flagyl.
3. Prokaryotic flagella and eukaryotic flagella are radically different from each other and unlikely to be harmed by the same chemical.
4. Not all anaerobic gut bacteria possess flagella, yet it kills these bacteria.

A)1 and 2
B)1 and 3
C)2 and 3
D)1, 2, and 4
E)2, 3, and 4

Question 57

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
If the mitosomes of Giardia contain no DNA, yet are descendants of what were once? free-living organisms, then where are we likely to find the genes that encode their structures, and what accounts for their current location there?

A)plasmids; conjugation
B)plasmids; transformation
C)nucleus; horizontal gene transfer
D)nucleus; S phase

Question 58

The following questions refer to the description below.
You and a friend were walking through a pet store looking at the different aquaria with fish. Most of the aquaria had fish that were healthy and colourful, but two tanks with many fish in them had fish with "fin and tail rot" caused by a pathogenic bacteria. You and your friend read that bacteria are found in most environments and that healthy fish are quite resistant to bacterial infections.

Which of the following characteristics does not apply to the organism in test tube 5?

A)conjugation produces genetic variation
B)cells are reinforced by cellulose plates
C)use cilia for locomotion
D)asexual reproduction is by binary fission
E)cilia are used for feeding

Question 59

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other mammals that causes intestinal ailments in most people who ingest the cysts. Upon ingestion, each cyst releases two motile cells, called trophozoites. These attach to the small intestine's lining via a ventral adhesive disk. The trophozoites anaerobically metabolize glucose from the host's intestinal contents to produce ATP. Reproduction is completely asexual, occurring by longitudinal binary fission of trophozoites, with each daughter cell receiving two haploid nuclei (n = 5). A trophozoite will often encyst as it passes into the large intestine by secreting around itself a case that is resistant to cold, heat, and dehydration. Infection usually occurs by drinking untreated water that contains cysts.
Given the putative ancestry of Giardia's mitosome, what should we predict is true of the mitosome?

A)It has electron transport systems that use oxygen as the final electron acceptor.
B)It has a double membrane.
C)It has thylakoids.
D)It contains microtubules, arranged in the "9 + 2 pattern."
E)It contains 80S (eukaryotic)ribosomes.

Question 60

The next few questions refer to the following description and table.
Diatoms are encased in Petri-platelike cases (valves) made of translucent hydrated silica whose thickness can be varied. The material used to store excess calories can also be varied. At certain times, diatoms store excess calories in the form of the liquid polysaccharide, laminarin, and at other times as oil. The following are data concerning the density (specific gravity) of various components of diatoms, and of their environment.
Specific Gravities of Materials Relevant to Diatoms

Judging from the table and given that water's density and, consequently, its buoyancy decrease at warmer temperatures, in which environment should diatoms (and other suspended particles)sink most slowly?

A)cold fresh water
B)warm fresh water
C)cold sea water
D)warm sea water
E)warm brackish water

Question 61

Plastids that are surrounded by more than two membranes are evidence of

A)evolution from mitochondria.
B)fusion of plastids.
C)origin of the plastids from archaea.
D)secondary endosymbiosis.
E)budding of the plastids from the nuclear envelope.

Question 62

Including the membrane of the surrounding vesicle, how many phospholipid?(NOT lipopolysaccharide)bilayers should be found around each cyanelle, and which one of these bilayers should have photosystems embedded in it?

A)two; innermost
B)two; outermost
C)three; innermost
D)three; middle
E)three; outermost

Question 63

P. chromatophora secretes around itself a test, or case, of plates made of silica. Which of the following is another rhizarian that would be in competition with P. chromatophora for the silica needed to make these plates, assuming limited quantities of silica in the environment?

A)radiolarians
B)foraminiferans
C)all other amoeboid cells
D)all other rhizaria
E)diatoms

Question 64

A P. bursaria cell that has lost its zoochlorellae is aposymbiotic. If aposymbiotic cells have population growth rates the same as those of healthy, zoochlorella-containing P. bursaria in well-lit environments with plenty of prey items, then such an observation would be consistent with which type of relationship?

A)parasitic
B)commensalistic
C)toxic
D)predator-prey
E)mutualistic

Question 65

What must occur for asexual reproduction to be successful in P. chromatophora? 1. mitosis
2. S phase
3. meiosis
4. equal distribution of cyanelles during cytokinesis

A)1 only
B)1 and 2
C)1, 2, and 3
D)1, 2, and 4
E)2, 3, and 4

Question 66

The following questions refer to the description below.
Malaria is a global health problem in over 100 countries, killing about one million people every year. The protist, Plasmodium, that causes malaria lives in 2 hosts, mosquitoes and humans. Malaria is transmitted to humans by the Anopholes mosquito.
A friend of yours has just returned from central Africa and has told you that she is sick with malaria. You know your friend took an anti-malaria medication before she left on her trip. How can you explain why your friend contracted malaria?

A)Your friend has likely picked up a new pathogen which is making her sick.
B)Your friend had taken anti-malaria medication, but the Plasmodium parasite was resistant to this drug.
C)The medication suppressed your friend's immune system.
D)Your friend is immune to the medication she took.
E)Your friend should have chosen a vaccine instead of drugs because vaccines work for a longer period of time.

Question 67

The next few questions refer to the following description.
Healthy individuals of Paramecium bursaria contain photosynthetic algal endosymbionts of the genus Chlorella. When within their hosts, the algae are referred to as zoochlorellae. In aquaria with light coming from only one side, P. bursaria gathers at the well-lit side, whereas other species of Paramecium gather at the opposite side. The zoochlorellae provide their hosts with glucose and oxygen, and P. bursaria provides its zoochlorellae with protection and motility.? P. bursaria can lose its zoochlorellae in two ways: (1) if kept in darkness, the algae will die; and (2) if prey items (mostly bacteria) are absent from its habitat, P. bursaria will digest its zoochlorellae.
Which term most accurately describes the nutritional mode of healthy P. bursaria?

A)photoautotroph
B)photoheterotroph
C)chemoheterotroph
D)chemoautotroph
E)mixotroph

Question 68

The following questions refer to the description below.
Malaria is a global health problem in over 100 countries, killing about one million people every year. The protist, Plasmodium, that causes malaria lives in 2 hosts, mosquitoes and humans. Malaria is transmitted to humans by the Anopholes mosquito.
The use of DDT greatly decreased numbers of Anopholes mosquitoes in the 1960s, and drugs killed the Plasmodium. Now doctors tend to prescribe a combination of drugs against malaria. Why don't doctors prescribe a vaccine to combat malaria?

A)In the presence of multiple drugs, the mutation rate of pathogens decreases.
B)Multiple drugs enhance the immune system better than vaccines.
C)Making an effective vaccine has proved to be difficult because Plasmodium lives inside the host's cells and continually changes its surface proteins.
D)There are fewer side effects associated with using a combination of drugs compared with using a vaccine.
E)Vaccines are more expensive than many drugs.

Question 69

The genome of modern chloroplasts is roughly 50% the size of the genome of the cyanobacterium from which it is thought to have been derived. In comparison, the genome of? P. chromatophora's cyanelle is only slightly reduced relative to the size of the genome of the cyanobacterium from which it is thought to have been derived. What is a valid conclusion that can be drawn from this comparison?

A)Lytic phage infections have targeted the chloroplast genome more often than the? P. chromatophora genome.
B)P. chromatophora's cyanelle is the result of an evolutionarily recent endosymbiosis.
C)The genome of the chloroplast ancestor contained many more introns that could be lost without harm, compared to the cyanelle's genome.
D)All three of the conclusions above are valid.
E)Two of the conclusions above are valid.

Question 70

The motility that permits P. bursaria to move toward a light source is provided by

A)pseudopods.
B)a single flagellum composed of the protein, flagellin.
C)a single flagellum featuring the 9 + 2 pattern.
D)many cilia.
E)contractile vacuoles.

Question 71

A P. bursaria cell that has lost its zoochlorellae is said to be aposymbiotic. It might be able to replenish its contingent of zoochlorellae by ingesting them without subsequently digesting them. Which of the following situations would be most favourable to the reestablishment of resident zoochlorellae, assuming compatible Chlorella are present in P. bursaria's habitat?

A)abundant light, no bacterial prey
B)abundant light, abundant bacterial prey
C)no light, no bacterial prey
D)no light, abundant bacterial prey

Question 72

The next few questions refer to the following description.
Healthy individuals of Paramecium bursaria contain photosynthetic algal endosymbionts of the genus Chlorella. When within their hosts, the algae are referred to as zoochlorellae. In aquaria with light coming from only one side, P. bursaria gathers at the well-lit side, whereas other species of Paramecium gather at the opposite side. The zoochlorellae provide their hosts with glucose and oxygen, and P. bursaria provides its zoochlorellae with protection and motility.? P. bursaria can lose its zoochlorellae in two ways: (1) if kept in darkness, the algae will die; and (2) if prey items (mostly bacteria) are absent from its habitat, P. bursaria will digest its zoochlorellae.
Which term best describes the symbiotic relationship of well-fed P. bursaria to their zoochlorellae?

A)mutualistic
B)commensal
C)parasitic
D)predatory
E)pathogenic

Question 73

Theoretically, P.bursaria can obtain zoochlorella either vertically (via the asexual reproduction of its mother cell)or horizontally (by ingesting free-living Chlorella from its habitat). Consider a P. bursaria cell containing zoochlorellae, but whose habitat lacks free-living Chlorella. If this cell subsequently undergoes many generations of asexual reproduction, if all of its daughter cells contain roughly the same number of zoochlorellae as it had originally contained, and if the zoochlorellae are all haploid and identical in appearance, then what is true?

A)The zoochlorellae also reproduced asexually, at an increasing rate over time.
B)The zoochlorellae also reproduced asexually, at a decreasing rate over time.
C)The zoochlorellae also reproduced asexually, at a fairly constant rate over time.
D)The zoochlorellae reproduced sexually, undergoing heteromorphic alternation of generations.
E)The zoochlorellae reproduced sexually, undergoing isomorphic alternation of generations.

Question 74

Which of the following represents the true significance of the finding that the cyanelles of? P. chromatophora stem from a different type of cyanobacterium than gave rise to chloroplasts?

A)This finding indicates that there is a second evolutionary lineage of photosynthetic eukaryotes.
B)This finding represents the first time that primary endosymbiosis has been directly observed.
C)This finding is the strongest evidence yet for the theory of endosymbiosis.
D)This finding is an example of the phenomenon known as "serial endosymbiosis."
E)This finding is the first evidence that eukaryotic cells do not necessarily digest prokaryotic cells that manage to gain access to their cytoplasm.

Question 75

A crucial photosynthetic gene of the cyanobacterium that gave rise to the cyanelle is called psaE. This gene is present in the nuclear genome of the cercozoan, but is not in the genome of the cyanelle. This is evidence of

A)reciprocal mutations in the cyanelle and nuclear genomes.
B)horizontal gene transfer from bacterium to eukaryotes.
C)genetic recombination involving a protist and an archaean.
D)the origin of photosynthesis in protists.
E)transduction by a phage that infects both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

Question 76

The next few questions refer to the following description.
Healthy individuals of Paramecium bursaria contain photosynthetic algal endosymbionts of the genus Chlorella. When within their hosts, the algae are referred to as zoochlorellae. In aquaria with light coming from only one side, P. bursaria gathers at the well-lit side, whereas other species of Paramecium gather at the opposite side. The zoochlorellae provide their hosts with glucose and oxygen, and P. bursaria provides its zoochlorellae with protection and motility.? P. bursaria can lose its zoochlorellae in two ways: (1) if kept in darkness, the algae will die; and (2) if prey items (mostly bacteria) are absent from its habitat, P. bursaria will digest its zoochlorellae.
Which term accurately describes the behaviour of Paramecium species that lack zoochlorellae in an aquarium with light coming from one side only?

A)positive chemotaxis
B)negative chemotaxis
C)positive phototaxis
D)negative phototaxis

Question 77

If true, which of the following is the best evidence that the cyanelles are providing nutrition (in other words, calories)to the surrounding cercozoan?

A)if the cyanelle performs aerobic photosynthesis
B)if the vesicle membrane that surrounds each cyanelle possesses glucose-transport proteins
C)if the cyanelle performs aerobic respiration
D)if radiolabelled ¹⁴CO₂ enters the cyanelle and if, subsequently, radiolabelled glucose is present in cercozoan cytosol
E)if radiolabelled "heavy" water, ²H₂O, enters the cyanelle and if, subsequently, radiolabelled oxygen appears in cercozoan cytosol

Question 78

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Paulinella chromatophora is one of the few cercozoans that is autotrophic, carrying out aerobic photosynthesis with its two elongated "cyanelles." The cyanelles are contained within vesicles of the host cell, and each is derived from a cyanobacterium, though not the same type of cyanobacterium that gave rise to the chloroplasts of algae and plants.
The closest living relative of P. chromatophora is the heterotroph, P. ovalis. P. ovalis uses threadlike pseudopods to capture its prey, which it digests internally. Which of the following, if observed, would be the best reason for relabelling P. chromatophora as a mixotroph?

A)a threadlike pseudopod
B)a pigmented central vacuole, surrounded by a tonoplast
C)a vacuole with food inside
D)a secretory vesicle
E)a contractile vacuole

Question 79

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
Paulinella chromatophora is one of the few cercozoans that is autotrophic, carrying out aerobic photosynthesis with its two elongated "cyanelles." The cyanelles are contained within vesicles of the host cell, and each is derived from a cyanobacterium, though not the same type of cyanobacterium that gave rise to the chloroplasts of algae and plants.
The closest living relative of P. chromatophora is the heterotroph, P. ovalis. What type of evidence permits biologists to make this claim about relatedness?

A)morphological
B)ecological
C)biochemical
D)genetic
E)fossil

Question 80

If true, which of the following would be most important in determining whether? P. chromatophora's cyanelle is still an endosymbiont, or is an organelle, as the term cyanelle implies?

A)if P. chromatophora is less fit without its cyanelle than with it
B)if the cyanelle is less fit without the host cercozoan than with it
C)if there is ongoing metabolic cooperation between the cyanelle and the host cercozoan
D)if the magnesium-containing porphyrin ring in the cyanelle's chlorophyll molecules is built by the cyanelle, whereas the organic portion of the chlorophyll molecules is built by the host cercozoan
E)if there has been movement of genes from the cyanelle genome to the nuclear genome, such that these genes are no longer present in the cyanelle genome