BIOLOGY - UNIT 6: MICROBIOLOGY

daughter colonies

result of reproduction inside a Volvox colony

thallus

structure of an alga

kelp

giant brown algae

plasmodium

multinucleated feeding phase

Through the process of ________ , an amoeba creates a food vacuole where digestion continues.

phagocytosis

__________ Which substance is responsible for the red color in red algae?

phycoerythrin

algal bloom

rapid growth of algae

phototaxis

response to light

Select reasons why euglena have in the past been classified as protozoans.

They are motile. They have no cell wall. They have a pellicle.

Chlorophyta

Volvox

Which item is NOT associated with the phylum Rhodophyta?

algin

During the feeding phase of the cellular slime mold, the organism exists as an amoeba-like body of ___________ that feed on organic material, bacteria, and fungus. If food becomes scarce, some of the cells of the slime mold emit a ____________ that other slime mold cells react to and they gather into a larger, single slimy mass. This is the slug phase because the mass looks and acts much like a slug. From the slug phase, _______________ will evolve and individual spores are released that are capable of becoming new individual amoeba-like cells, and they enter the feeding phase.

cells, chemical, fruiting bodies.

algin

gelatin-like derivative of brown algae

sulcom

groove in the outer covering of dinoflagellates

The Anopheles mosquito is the ________ for malaria.

insect vector

red eyespot

light-sensitive structure

diatoms

Bacillariophyta

Basidiomycota

Agaricus bisporis

Rhizopoda

Amoeba proteus

Select the false statement about diatoms.

Diatoms provide plants with a source of fertilizer.

radiolarians

Foraminifera

Zoomastigophora

Giardia lamblia

plasmodial slime mold

Myxomycota

late blight

Phytophthera infestans

Apicomplexa

Plasmodium ovale

Ascomycota

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Phaeophyta

Sargussum

Chrysophyta

Synura