Past exam of the Probability, statistics and options II course of the University of Oxford / 2010 / A / A2 / 3 / Solution

By the allowed cyclicity theorem, $K^{\times }$ has a generator $z$. Every nonzero element of $K$ is a power of $z$, and zero also belongs to $F(z)$. Thus $K\subseteq F(z)\subseteq K$, giving $\boxed{K=F(z)}$. This is a primitive element argument for finite fields using the multiplicative group, not a claim that the additive group is cyclic.