PROTOZON QUIZ | EXAMIANS

Organisms with amoeboid cells that move within a network of mucous tracks using a typical gliding motion belong to which phylum of Protozoa?

Labyinthomorpha

Myxozoa

Microspora

Apicomplexa

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Organisms with complex life cycles which include a mammalian host and an insect host and involves schizogony as part of the cycle belong to which phylum of Protozoa?

Myxozoa

Sarcomastigophora

Microspora

Apicomplexa

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Holozoic nutrition is characterized by

pinocytosis of solid nutrients and subsequent formation of phagocytic vacuoles

photosynthesis

phagocytosis of soluble nutrients and subsequent formation of phagocytic vacuoles

phagocytosis of solid nutrients and subsequent formation of phagocytic vacuoles

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Protozoa are generally not

microscopic

eukaryotic

multicellular

lacking cell walls

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Most commonly asexual reproduction in the Protozoa is by

gametangial contact

binary fusion

binary fission

conjugation

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Number of motility structures on flagellated cells is

equal to ciliated cells

greater than ciliated cells

none of these

lesser than ciliated cells

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Which of the following is not a function of cysts for Protozoa?

Serve as a means of transfer between hosts in parasitic species

Sites for nuclear reorganization and cell division

All of these

Protect against adverse environments

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Which of the following is least likely to have a rigid cell wall?

Bacterium

Protozoan

Fungus

Archaean

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The numbers of nuclear divisions involved in a ciliate undergoing binary fission is

greater than conjugation

equal to conjugation

lesser than conjugation

none of these

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Sexual reproduction in the Protozoa occurs most commonly by

conjugation

binary fission

binary fusion

gametangial contact

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