Course

Introductory Biology

Study Pack

Set 28 Protists

Back to Sets
Question 1

(Multiple Choice)

Free
Which of the following was derived from an ancestral cyanobacterium?

A) chloroplast
B) mitochondrion
C) hydrogenosome
D) mitosome
E) Two of the responses above are correct.

Answer

Question 2

(Multiple Choice)

Free
If we were to apply the most recent technique used to fight potato late blight to the fight against the malarial infection of humans, then we would

A) increase the dosage of the least-expensive antimalarial drug administered to humans.
B) increase the dosage of the most common pesticide used to kill Anopheles mosquitoes.
C) introduce a predator of the malarial parasite into infected humans.
D) use a "cocktail" of at least three different pesticides against Anopheles mosquitoes.
E) insert genes from a Plasmodium-resistant strain of mosquito into Anopheles mosquitoes.

Answer

Question 3

(Multiple Choice)

Free
According to the endosymbiotic theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells, how did mitochondria originate?

A) from infoldings of the plasma membrane, coupled with mutations of genes for proteins in energy-transfer reactions
B) from engulfed, originally free-living proteobacteria
C) by secondary endosymbiosis
D) from the nuclear envelope folding outward and forming mitochondrial membranes
E) when a protoeukaryote engaged in a symbiotic relationship with a protocell

Answer