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Name the organism responsible for sleeping sickness disease.

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**Step-by-Step Solution:** 1. **Identify the Disease**: The question asks for the organism responsible for sleeping sickness. Sleeping sickness is a disease that affects humans and is also known as African trypanosomiasis. 2. **Determine the Causative Agent**: The organism responsible for sleeping sickness is a protozoan parasite. 3. **Name the Organism**: The specific organism that causes sleeping sickness is *Trypanosoma brucei*. ...
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ICSE-BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION-Test Your Progress (Very Short Answer Type Questions )
  1. Write an example of plasmodial and cellular slime mould respectively.

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  2. What is plasmodium ?

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  3. Name the organism responsible for sleeping sickness disease.

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  4. Name the locomotory organs of Amoeba.

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  5. Name a protozoan responsible for malaria in humans.

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  6. In which organism-man or mosquito, the sexual stages of malarial paras...

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  7. What type of sexual reproduction is seen in Paramecium ?

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  8. Name the vector of 'sleeping sickness'

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  9. Why pseudopodia are important in Amoeba ?

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  10. Write two characters and two examples of the kingdom Protista.

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  11. Who raised the fungi to the status of an independent kingdom ?

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  12. Name the branch of biology that deals with the study of fungi.

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  13. Differentiate between gametangial contact and gametangial copulation.

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  14. Name the fungus responsible for late blight of potato.

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  15. To which groups of fungi do the following belong? Ergot, puffballs, ...

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  16. Can obligate parasites be cultured on synthetic culture medium ?

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  17. Name a fungus which is important for its use in genetic studies.

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  18. The tip cell of the ascogenous hypha called the crozier is curved and...

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  19. Give the scientific term for a cell with two haploid nuclei of differe...

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  20. Give the scientific term for the symbiotic association of a fungus wit...

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