Kingdom Protista

  1. Protists Structure: unicellular and multicellular or colonial cellular ( can gather together)
    1. There are three Groups of Protists:
      1. Animal, Plant, and Fungi like

Animal like

  1. Involves motility: in 3 different ways
    1. Flagella, cilia and amoebic movement
    1. Plates:
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        Trichonympha
        , multiflagellated protozoan found in guts of termites
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        Trypanosoma brucei
        , flagellated, African sleeping sickness, spread by tsetse flies
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        Amoeba proteus
        , freshwater amoeboid
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        Radiolarians
        , marine protozoan, has siliceous shell
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        Paramecium
        , cilia can clearly see contractual vacuoles
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        Plasmodium vivax
        , non-motile protozoan, cause malaria from anopheline mosquitoes

Plant like

  1. have chloroplast and cell walls
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        Euglena
        , photosynthesis, flagellated, has light sensitive “eye spot”, stores energy as paramylon granules
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        Gymnodinium
        , marine form has two flagella
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        Pinnularia mobilis
        , cilia

Fungus like

  1. Fungi looks fuzzy or hair, less uniform in shape,
    1. Found in: standing water, compost piles and leaf litter
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        Physarum
        , slime mold, multinucleate amoeba
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        Rhizopus stolonifer
        , black bread mold, forms asexual pores