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Science Skills
Classifying
The kingdom Protista contains the most diverse assortment of living organisms.
To help their classmates understand this variefil a team of students has been
asked to design three posters showing some ways that the members of the
Kingdom Protista can be organized. Show the students how you would classify
each of these 10 organisms in questions 1€:
amoebas
Paramecium
kelp
Spirogyra
Chlamgdonnonas
dinoflagellates
red algae
Euglena
diatoms
Plasmodium
Read each question, and write your answer in the space provided.
l. First, place
each of the 10 organisms listed above into one of these two
categories:
Unicellular
Multicellular
2. Next, place each of these organisms into one of these three categories:
Photosynthetic
Heterotrophic
Can be either photosynthetic or heterotrophic
5. Finally, place each of these organisms into one of these three categories:
Swims with flagella or cilia
Moves with pseudopodia
Nonmotile (does not move)
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