Protist & Fungi- Study Guide Answer Key
Protist
1. What protist causes Malaria?
Sporozoan
2. T or F Euglena have false feet
F
3. How does a sporozoan reproduce?
Spores
4. The Paramecium is a _________like protist.
Animal
5. Which plant like protist has an eye spot and moves with one flagellum?
Euglena
6. Which protist has a cell covering composed of two parts, like a storage
container?
Diatom
7. These are usually red or brown and are responsible for red tides
dinoflagellate
8. Which plant like protist has many different shapes? (examples are rods,
disks, boats, etc)
diatoms
9. Use to make cleaning products, filters, and toothpaste
Diatom
10. In which stage does the slime mold produce spores?
Stage 2
Fungi
1. T or F It is NOT safe to eat any wild mushrooms
True
2. What is a lichen?
Green organism and a fungus living together
3. What two types of fungi are responsible for destroying entire crops of corn,
wheat, & oats?
Smuts & Rust
4. What type of fungi causes dutch elm disease?
Sac fungi
5. How do all fungi reproduce?
Spores & Pieces of
hyphae
6. What is mutualism?
Two organism that benefit
by living with one another example: Green organism and the fungi
7. Fungi absorb food through what underground structure?
Hyphae
8. List 2 fungi that we eat:
Mushrooms, yeast
9. We can use yeast to make what?
Bread & alcohol
10. Fungi can cause what in humans?
Athletes foot, ringworm
Misc
1. T or F fungi cells can have more than one nucleus
True
2. Short hair like parts that on the surface of the cell that are used for
movement are called what?
Cilia
3. Thread like structure that contain cytoplasm and is divided by cross walls
Hyphae
4. When a small part of the parent is able to grow into a new organism the
process is known as:
budding
5. In the artic, due to the lack of plant growth, what is used as a food source for
animals like reindeer and caribou?
Fungi-reindeer moss
6. Slime mold, paramecium, & amoeba are all what?
Protist
Protist & Fungi- Study Guide Answer Key
7. During stage 1 of the slime mold’s life cycle, the slime mold moves:
amoeba
8. Define Sporangiastructures found on the tips of the hyphae that
make spores
9. What is a protozoan?
Animal like protist
10. Algae could also be called/known as
Plant like protist