Protists Worksheet
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1. Draw the organisms seen.
Paramecium
Amoeba
Trypanosoma
Plasmodium
2. Are the malarial parasites located inside the RBCs or in the plasma outside of the RBC? What
about Trypanosomes?
3. By what major criterion are the protozoa subcategorized into classes?
4. What motility structure does Trypanosoma use?
5. In which phylum does Plasmodium reside?
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6. What organisms are in the kingdom Protista?
7. Which of the organisms seen in lab are intracellular parasites?
8. List ways in which algae are beneficial.
9. Give examples of unicellular, filamentous, and colonial green algae.
10. What evidence supports algae as being ancestral to land plants? (Use your textbook).
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