Which of the following organisms would be a member of Kingdom Protista?

Question

Question 1 options:

White Button Mushrooms

Amoeba

Salmonella

Lion

Question 2 (1 point)
Kingdom Protista is essentially made up of all eukaryotic organisms that are not fungi, animals or plants

Question 2 options:
True
False
Question 3 (1 point)
Which of the following methods of protist motility involves appendages that are sometimes known as "false feet"?

Question 3 options:

flagella

cilia

pseudopods

Question 4 (1 point)
Even though some protists are multicellular, none possess highly specialized tissues or organs.

Question 4 options:
True
False
Question 5 (1 point)
All species of fungi are multicellular.

Question 5 options:
True
False
Question 6 (1 point)
Fungal cell walls are made of this type of compound.

Question 6 options:

Cellulose

Chitin

Phospholipids

Peptidoglycan

Question 7 (1 point)
Choose all the following terms that can be used to define the Fungi Kingdom.

Select 2 correct answer(s)
Question 7 options:

Heterotrophic

Eukaryotic

Autotrophic

Prokaryotic

Question 8 (1 point)
Recent scientific evidence tells us that fungi are actually more related to plants than to animals.

Question 8 options:
True
False
Question 9 (1 point)
This kingdom of life includes eukaryotic, multicellular members who are almost all autotrophic.

Question 9 options:

Protista

Fungi

Animalia

Plantae

Question 10 (6 points)
Please describe a few features of fungi that suggest they are more closely related to animals than to plants.

Question 10 options:

Answer 1

Here are the answers to your questions:

Question 1: Which of the following organisms would be a member of Kingdom Protista?

• Answer: Amoeba

Question 2: Kingdom Protista is essentially made up of all eukaryotic organisms that are not fungi, animals or plants.

• Answer: True

Question 3: Which of the following methods of protist motility involves appendages that are sometimes known as "false feet"?

• Answer: Pseudopods

Question 4: Even though some protists are multicellular, none possess highly specialized tissues or organs.

• Answer: True

Question 5: All species of fungi are multicellular.

• Answer: False (Yeasts are unicellular fungi.)

Question 6: Fungal cell walls are made of this type of compound.

• Answer: Chitin

Question 7: Choose all the following terms that can be used to define the Fungi Kingdom.

• Correct Answers:
  • Heterotrophic
  • Eukaryotic

Question 8: Recent scientific evidence tells us that fungi are actually more related to plants than to animals.

• Answer: False (Fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants.)

Question 9: This kingdom of life includes eukaryotic, multicellular members who are almost all autotrophic.

• Answer: Plantae

Question 10: Please describe a few features of fungi that suggest they are more closely related to animals than to plants.

• Answer:
  • Fungi and animals both store energy in the form of glycogen, whereas plants store energy as starch.
  • The composition of fungal cell walls is made of chitin, which is also found in the exoskeletons of arthropods (a group of animals), while plant cell walls are made of cellulose.
  • Fungi and animals share similar mechanisms of synthesizing certain proteins and have similar modes of reproduction, including the production of heterotrophic cells.
  • Molecular studies, including DNA sequencing, show that fungi and animals share a more recent common ancestor than fungi and plants.

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