Protists

Gap-Fill Exercise - There are words to choose from at the bottom of the page.



1. means "disease causing."
2. African sleeping sickness is spread by the .
3. All members of the phylum move by letting their cytoplasm flow.
4. All members of the phylum use long whip-like flagella to propel them through the water.
5. All members of the phylum are nonmotile.
6. Amebas avoid light. This is referred to as negative .
7. Amebas capture food by , a process that uses their pseudopodia to surround the food.
8. Dead organisms on the bottom of a pond or stream are referred to as .
9. False feet are called .
10. Flowing cytoplasmic projections are called .
11. Malaria is spread by the female .
12. means first or simple animal.
13. Sexual reproduction in the paramecium is called .
14. The ability to move is called .
15. The animal-like marine protozoans that drift in the ocean are referred to as .
16. The defense system of the paramecium is made of hairlike structures called .
17. The kingdom that includes organisms that are eukaryotic and unicellular is called .
18. The larger nucleus of the paramecium that directs cell activity is called the .
19. The most common type of asexual reproduction in protozoans, during which the cell pinches in half is called binary .
20. The most familiar example of the phylum Sarcodina is the .
21. The nucleus of the paramecium that directs reproduction is called the .
22. The organelle in protozoans that pumps out excess water is called a .
23. The organelle inside the ameba that digests food is called a .
24. The organism causes African Sleeping Sickness.
25. The organism that causes malaria, is .
26. The phylum that has hundreds of short hairlike projections called cilia is called .
27. The protein sheath outside the cell membrane of a paramecium that maintains its shape is called the .
28. The protozoan called is the cause of a disease called dysentery.
29. The protozoan with a hard outer shell made of calcium carbonate is called a(n) .
30. The term means that an organism lives in association with another species.
31. The term means "lives in water."
32. The term means attached.
33. The term that means "feeds on others" is .
34. The thick grainy cytoplasm inside the ameba is called .
35. The thin fluid cytoplasm around the edges of the ameba is called .

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