Prescott's Microbiology
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ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 25.3, Problem 2RIA
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A major taxonomic group consisting of approximately 2,400 described species of amoeboid protists is called Amoebozoa. It frequently possessing finger like blunt, tubular mitochondrial cristae, and lobose pseudopods. The Amoebozoa subgroup Eumycetozoa includes cellular and acellular slime molds.
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Prescott's Microbiology
Ch. 25.1 - Prob. 1RIACh. 25.1 - Prob. 2RIACh. 25.1 - Prob. 3RIACh. 25.1 - Prob. 4RIACh. 25.1 - Prob. 5RIACh. 25.1 - Describe vesicular, ovular, and chromosomal...Ch. 25.1 - Why has taxonomic classification of protists been...Ch. 25.2 - Prob. 1MICh. 25.2 - What are the functions of the stigma and the...Ch. 25.2 - Prob. 1RIA
Ch. 25.2 - What is the function of the plasmalemma and...Ch. 25.2 - Prob. 3RIACh. 25.3 - Prob. 1MICh. 25.3 - Prob. 2MICh. 25.3 - Prob. 1RIACh. 25.3 - Prob. 2RIACh. 25.3 - What is a plasmodium? How does it differ from the...Ch. 25.3 - Prob. 4RIACh. 25.4 - Prob. 1MICh. 25.4 - What are the functions of the micronucleus and...Ch. 25.4 - How does the trigger for sexual reproduction...Ch. 25.4 - Prob. 1RIACh. 25.4 - Compare how radiolaria use axopodia with the way...Ch. 25.4 - Prob. 3RIACh. 25.4 - Prob. 4RIACh. 25.4 - Describe conjugation as it occurs in ciliates....Ch. 25.4 - Prob. 6RIACh. 25.4 - Prob. 7RIACh. 25.5 - Which of the cells shown above are haploid and...Ch. 25.5 - Prob. 1RIACh. 25.5 - Prob. 2RIACh. 25.5 - Prob. 3RIACh. 25.5 - What does the discovery of a large group of...Ch. 25.5 - Compare the morphology of members of the genus...Ch. 25 - Protist encystment is usually triggered by changes...Ch. 25 - Prob. 2CHICh. 25 - Vaccine development for diseases caused by...Ch. 25 - Some protists reproduce asexually when nutrients...Ch. 25 - Prob. 5CHICh. 25 - Benthic foraminifera inhabit marine sediments. It...
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