Simple Organisms

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Simple Organisms

• Protists and Fungi Chapter 11

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True or False Review Questions

• Use A for True
• Use B for False

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A. Kingdom Protista

• They are unicellular or simple multicellular
  organisms and all are eukaryotes (have a
  nucleus).
• They can be Fungus-like, Plant-like (algae) or
  Animal-like depending on how they obtain food.
• Some can reproduce sexually, others asexually and
  others both.

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Fungus-like
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Plant-like
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Animal-like

• Amobae of Entamoeba histolytica, the cause of
  amoebic dysentery in humans
• Trypanosoma brucei, a flagellate protozoan
  causing sleeping sickness in humans
• Balantidium coli, a usually harmless ciliate
  parasite of the intestine of pigs
• Symbiotic ciliates from the rumen of cattle one
  species is completely covered with cilia the
  other is naked except for a crown of cilia at the
  anterior end of the organisms
• Babesia sp., an apicomplexan parasite in the red
  blood cells of an African lion

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B. Kingdom Fungi

• Fungi are eukaryotic consumers, but they do not
  eat.
• Most fungi obtain nutrients by secreting
  digestive juices into a food source, then
  absorbing the dissolved substances.
• Fungi are made up of chains of cells called
  hyphae that grow together to form a mycelium
  (like roots).

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Thread-like
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Sac Fungi
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Club Fungi
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Imperfect Fungi
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Lichen