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Question

Read the statements below, then select the correct answer.

Statement #1: African sleeping sickness is caused by a trypanosome, a type of flagellate.

Statement #2: Red tides are caused by dinoflagellates, a type of algae.

Statement #3: Potato blight is caused by an oomycete, or water mold.

Statement #4: Malaria is caused by plasmodium, a sporozoan.

All of the above statements are true.

None of the above statements are true.

Statements #1 and #2 are correct, but statements #3 and #4 are incorrect.

Statements #3 and #4 are correct, but statements #1 and #2 are incorrect.

Which of the following statements is not true about protists?

Most protists live in aqueous conditions.

All protists are prokaryotes.

All protists require aerobic cellular respiration.

Most protists are unicellular.

Many researchers believe that __________ are the early ancestors of plants.

red algae

brown algae

golden algae

green algae

Answer 1

All of the above statements are true

All protists are prokaryotes (this is false)

green algae

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Sleeping sickness or African trypanosomiasis is a parasitic disease in people and animals, caused by protozoa of genus Trypanosoma and transmitted by the tsetse fly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_si...

The term "red tide" is often used in the United States of America to describe a particular type of algal bloom common to the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and is also called "Florida red tide." This type of bloom is caused by a species of dinoflagellate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tide

Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete that causes the serious potato disease known as late blight or potato blight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophthor...

Young mosquitoes first ingest the malaria parasite by feeding on an infected human carrier and the infected Anopheles mosquitoes carry Plasmodium sporozoites in their salivary glands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria

Protists (IPA: /ˈproʊtɨst/), Greek protiston -a meaning the (most) first of all ones, are a diverse group of organisms, comprising those eukaryotes that cannot be classified in any of the other eukaryotic kingdoms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protist

There are two major lineages of green plants. One consists of most of what have been classically considered "green algae" -- mostly microscopic freshwater forms and large seaweeds. The other lineage contains several groups of "green algae" that are more closely related to land plants http://www.palaeos.com/Plants/default.ht...