Checks

From amoebas to algae

1. What is the difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes?
2. Speak of the main reproductive methods of Protista.
3. Explain the main features of autotrophic Protista.
4. What does "pseudopodia" mean, and what are they for?
5. What are the main features of unicellular algae?
6. What are the photosynthetic pigments contained in diatoms?
7. How are living beings classed?
8. What are the main differences between Foraminiferida and Heliozoia?
9. In what country does the flagellate protozoan Tripanosoma generally lives? How does it infect man and how many deaths does it cause every year?
10. What algae are the main components of phytoplankton and in what percentages?
11. Analyse the number of cases of malaria in Italian tourists visiting malarial countries
12. How does the malarial plasmodium transmit diseases?
13. What diseases are transmitted by protozoa to man, apart from malaria?
14. Explain from what line of evolution Protista are supposed to have taken origin.
15. Speak of the use of Protista in activated sludge.
16. What Protista cause the disease called cinguatera and what symptoms does it cause?
17. What feature makes Lake Tovel, in Trentin, so famous?
18. What can be the consequences of an increase in the Dinoflagellida population of the type Gymnodium brevi?
19. How can diatoms be used?
20. Speak of the types of symbiosis that form between Protista and superior organisms.