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Autotrophs
Protists
• Organisms that produce their own sugars to
get energy
• Includes unicellular protists, multicellular
protists, and colonial protists.
Supergroup Archaeplastida
(Kingdom Plantae)
• Subgroup: Chloroplastida
– Chlorophyta
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Ulva – sea lettuce, mutliceullar
Spirogyra – green, filamentous, colonial
Volvox – colonial, circular
Chlamydomonas – unicellular, small, green
http://comenius.susqu.edu/biol/202/archae
plastida/viridiplantae/green%20algae/chloro
phyta/ulva.htm
http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2007/10
/genome-of-chlamydomonasreinhardtii.html
http://www.labtechindia.net/spirogyra-1651.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commo
ns/5/5f/Alga_volvox.png
Supergroup Archaeplastida
(Kingdom Plantae)
• Subgroup: Rhodophyceae (Red Algae)
– Calcified Red algae
• Corallina – calcifed red, feather branching
• Lithothrix – calcified red, irregular branching
• Bossiella – forked branching
http://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/Reso
urces%20for%20seashoreweb/Images%20for%20N
ew%20Pages/Mastocarpus.JPG
– Non-calcified branched red algae
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Endocladia – bushy and dark red
Pterocladiella – low intertidal
Plocamium – found in sandy areas
Osmundea – stinky red algae
http://www.nilauro.com/plocamium/images/press.gif
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Supergroup Excavata
Subgroup Euglenozoa
Euglenida
– Euglena
• Single celled, flagellated
http://www.seaweed.ie/_images/Coroff.jpg
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/ReefAlgae/Herbarium%20specimens/Pterocl
adiella%20capillacea%20LMH%20760%20300%20dpi.jpg
Supergroup Excavata
Subgroup Euglenozoa
http://silicasecchidisk.conncoll.edu/LucidKeys/Carolina_Key/html/Euglena_Main.html
Supergroup Stramenopiles
• Subgroup: Phaeophyceae
Kinetoplastea
– Trypanosoma
– Rockweeds
• Silvetia - rockweed
• Sargassum – invasive intertidal rockweed
– Kelps
• Egregia - feather boa kelp
• Marcocystis – giant kelp
http://www.photomazza.com/IMG/450x450xjpg_Trypanosoma_gambiense_fra_in_glob
uli_rossi_del_sangue_c_Giuseppe_Mazza.jpg.pagespeed.ic.C5nZ9ntA31.jpg
Supergroup Stramenopiles
• Subgroup: Bacillariophyta
– Diatoms
http://www.marine.gov/Images/Tegula/Algae/silvetia.jpg
http://www.seaotter.com/marine/research/egregia/menziesii/pics/me
nziesii.jpg
• Small protists with glass
shells
http://theartfulamoeba.com/wpcontent/uploads/2010/03/Wiki_Diatoms21.jpg
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Heterotrophs
• Organisms that need to get energy from
another organism
• Only going to talk about unicellular protists
Supergroup Amoebozoa
• Subgroup: Tubulinea
– Amoeba
• Moves using pseudopods
and cytoplasmic streaming
http://leavingbio.net/amoeba/Amoeba_files/image004.jpg
Supergroup Alveolata
• Subgroup: Ciliophora
Supergroup Alveolata
• Subgroup: Dinozoa
– Paramecium
– Dinoflagellates
• uses cilia to move
• feeds by ingesting
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Uses flagella to move
Most are marine
Can be autotrophsor heterotrophs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUeAMzoKNWg
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/Miscellaneous/Parameciu
m/paramecium3.jpg
https://taxonomic.aad.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/dinoflagellatemorphology_black_sml.jpg
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