Decomposer Protists MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
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MEDIUMWhich of the following is a correct statement?
Naked cytoplasm multinucleated and saprophytic are the characteristics of
Features of acellular Slime moulds include
A. Only reproduces sexually
B. Reproduce both sexually and asexually
C. Have a haploid ameboid stage
D. Have diploid ameboid stage
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Select the correct statements about Consumer Decomposer Protists
A. Chlorophyll is present
B. Two types - acellular and cellular Slime molds
C. Mode of nutrition is Phagotrophic and Saprotrophic
D. Surrounded by plasma membrane and cell wall
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Decomposer Protista- Slime Moulds
- These protists possess characters of both fungi and animals.
- They are found on dead and decaying matter.
- Slime moulds lack chlorophyll and their mode of nutrition is saprotrophic.
- These do not have a cell wall. The outermost layer is the cell membrane.
- Reproduction may occur both sexually or asexually.
- Slime mould aggregate to form a free-living thalloid body called Plasmodium. It is a wall-less mass of multinucleate protoplasm covered by slime.
- Under unfavourable conditions, walled spores are formed on the plasmodia.
- Slime moulds can be acellular or cellular. Acellular forms have plasmodial body while cellular forms have the amoeboid body
- Examples include acellular slime moulds- Physarum, Physarella, Fuligo and cellular moulds- Dictyostelium.
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