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ISBN: 9780078024207

Author: Mariëlle Hoefnagels Dr.

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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It is a biological process of providing or obtaining food that is necessary for growth and health. It includes many physiological processes - absorption, ingestion, assimilation, catabolism, excretion, etc. In biology, the science that deals with nutriti…

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Chapter 18.3, Problem 1MC

What mode of nutrition do the slime molds and water molds use?

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Chapter 18 Solutions

Biology: Concepts and Investigations

Ch. 18.1 - What features define the protists?Ch. 18.1 - Prob. 2MC Ch. 18.1 - Why are evolutionary biologists interested in...Ch. 18.2 - Prob. 1MC Ch. 18.2 - Prob. 2MC Ch. 18.2 - List and describe the characteristics of the major...Ch. 18.3 - What mode of nutrition do the slime molds and...Ch. 18.3 - Prob. 2MC Ch. 18.3 - Prob. 3MC Ch. 18.4 - Prob. 1MC

Ch. 18.4 - Prob. 2MC Ch. 18.4 - List three diseases caused by flagellated...Ch. 18.4 - Compare and contrast amoebae, foraminiferans, and...Ch. 18.4 - How do ciliates move and eat?Ch. 18.4 - Prob. 6MC Ch. 18.5 - Prob. 1MC Ch. 18.5 - What features unite some of the major lineages of...Ch. 18.6 - Use the food chain in figure 18.21a to explain why...Ch. 18.6 - Prob. 2MC Ch. 18 - Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of...Ch. 18 - Suppose you are studying a protist under a...Ch. 18 - Some protist lineages arose from secondary...Ch. 18 - Prob. 4MCQ Ch. 18 - Why are DNA sequences useful in the classification...Ch. 18 - Explain why evolutionary biologists are interested...Ch. 18 - The amoeba Pelomyxa palustris is a single-celled...Ch. 18 - Describe the relationship between nutrient...Ch. 18 - Explain why the fossil record for diatoms is much...Ch. 18 - How is it adaptive for a red alga to have pigments...Ch. 18 - How are kelp similar to trees? How are they...Ch. 18 - Prob. 7WIO Ch. 18 - Prob. 8WIO Ch. 18 - Give three examples of protists for which the...Ch. 18 - Suppose someone hands you a microscope and a...Ch. 18 - Review the Survey the Landscape figure in the...Ch. 18 - Prob. 2PIT Ch. 18 - Molecular data have changed protist...

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