Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Concept Introduction: Dinoflagellates living in the tropical areas have the ability to produce light. The light will protect the protists by startling the predator which tries to eat it. The flash produced from the light may function like a car alarm by attracting the attention of predators that would be a dinoflagellate eater.

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Match each protist with its most suitable description. ____ diplomonad           a. whirling cell ____ water mold             b. silica-shelled producer ____ dinoflagellate         c. grows as filaments ____ diatom                   d. anaerobic parasite ____ amoeba                  e. closest relative of plants ____ red alga                  f. closest relative of animals ____ choanoflagellate     g. contains phycobilins ____ charophyte alga     h. feeds using pseudopods
Choanoflagellates are considered the sister group to, or closest living relatives of,______ . a. plants c. animals b. fungi d. dinoflagellates
All fungi_____ .a. are multicelled c. are heterotrophsb. form flagellated spores d. live on land
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