Lab 26:
Survey of Protists
Protozoa and Slime molds
Amebozoans: Phylum Rhizopoda
•Procedure 26.1 Amoeba (make your own and prepare slide)
follow steps 1-4, 6-7 (use depression slide)
sketch live amoeba and label
pseudopod
sketch prepared amoeba
label pseudopod and nucleus
Amebozoans: Phylum Eumycetozoa **
• Procedure 26.8 Physarum (petri dish)
follow steps 1-3
sketch slime mold growing in petri dish
(get you’re a petri dish for your table)
sketch the black sporangia (demo scope)
Rhizaria: Phylum Foraminifera and Radiolaria
•Procedure 26.2
demo slides of both
sketch 3 forams
Sketch 3 radiolaria
Excavata: Phylum Kinetoplastea
• Procedure 26.3 (Trypanosomas demo slide)
follow steps 1-3
Sketch slide and label:
trypanosoma and red blood cell
Excavata: Phylum Parabasala (instead of
diplomonida)
Demo slide of Trichomonas vaginalis
Label flagella and nucleus
Alveolata: Phylum Ciliophora
• Procedure 26.4 (prepared slide of Paramecium)
follow steps 1 and 3
Sketch label nucleus
• Procedure 26.5
(Paramecium make your own slide)
follow steps 1 and 2
Sketch and label,
oral groove and cilia
answer questions 5 b and c
Alveolata: Phylum Ciliophora
• Procedure 26.6 other ciliates
Vorticella
Sketch live and prepared
Stentor
Sketch live
And prepared
Alveolata: Phylum Apicomplexa
•Procedure 26.7 (Plasmodium demo slide)
follow steps 1-3
Sketch slide and label:
infected cell and uninfected cell
List of specimens
Live cultures
Prepared slides
Demo
scopes
Other
specimens
Amoeba
Amoeba
Plasmodium
Physarum agar
plate
Paramecium
Paramecium f
Trichomonas
Physarum
sporangia
Vorticella
Vorticella
Stentor
Stentor
Radiolaria
Foraminifera
Trypanosome