Protists

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Protists
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• Protists
• Eukaryotic – has a cell nucleus
• Unicellular – is made of only one cell
• Autotrophic and/or Heterotrophic
• Autotrophic – automatically makes its own
food (like a plant), usually uses sunlight for
Energy
• Heterotrophic – Eats other living things to get
energy
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Protist Classification
• If it looks like a blob and moves
by pseudopods its in the group
Unikonta ­ amoebas
• Amoeba
• heterotrophic
• engulf food by
phagocytosis
• move by
pseudopods
(false feet)
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Amoeba
• Intestinal Diseases ­ Dysentary
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Famous Amoebas
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Protist Classification
If it moves around by small hairs all over
its body called cilia it is in the group
Ciliophora – ciliates – paramecium
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Paramecium
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Group Ciliophora
heterotrophic
eat through oral groove
move by cilia
coordinated, rhythmic
beating of small “hairs
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Ciliates
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Protist Classification
• If it moves around with a long
whip like structure (or two) called
flagella it is in the phylum
Zoomastigophora – flagellates
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Flagellates
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Protist Classification
• If it is green it is probably
autotrophic. If it is autotrophic
and moves around with a flagella
and like an earthworm it is in the
group Euglenophyta – euglena
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• Group
Eugenophyta
Euglena
• autotrophic or
heterotrophic
• may ingest food if light
is not available
• move by flagella
(whip like tails)
and euglenoid
motion (like an
earthworm)
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Euglena
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Colonial Protists
Daughter Colony
Vegetative Cell
Parent Colony
Green
Algae
Red
Zygote
Flagella
Volvox
Archaeplastida
Brown
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Protist Diseases
• Malaria – blood borne
• African Sleeping Sickness blood
bourne
• Giardiasis ­ intestinal
• Trichomonas (an STD) –
reproductive organs
• Pneumonia ­ lungs
• Amoebic Dysentery ­ intestinal
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