Protists

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Protists

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Protists

• Animal-like vs Plant or Fungus like..
• Called Protozoans
• Divided into 4 groups
• Pseudopods
• False Feet.
• Move by bulging cell membrane and flowing
  cytoplasm.

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Pseudopods
http//www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/Botan
icalSciences/MajorDivisions/KingdomProtista/Protis
ts/protists.htm
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Pseudopods
Amoebas (Phylum Rhizopoda)
http//www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?
http//www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/sundr
.html
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Protists

• Animal-like vs Plant or Fungus like..
• Called Protozoans
• Divided into 4 groups
• Ciliates
• Have cilia
• Hair like projections used for moving, sensing
  and obtaining food

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Ciliates
http//www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/Botan
icalSciences/MajorDivisions/KingdomProtista/Protis
ts/paramecium.gif
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Ciliates
http//microbes.limnology.wisc.edu/outreach/pondsa
mples.php
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Ciliates
http//www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?
http//www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artaug98/sucto
ria.html
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Protists

• Animal-like vs Plant or Fungus like..
• Called Protozoans
• Divided into 4 groups
• Zooflagellates
• Long whip like flagella

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Zooflagellates
http//www.morning-earth.org/Graphic-E/BIOSPHERE/B
ios-C-ProtistsProtozoa.htm
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Zooflagellates
http//www.morning-earth.org/Graphic-E/BIOSPHERE/B
ios-C-ProtistsProtozoa.htm
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Protists

• Animal-like vs Plant or Fungus like..
• Called Protozoans
• Divided into 4 groups
• Sporozoans
• Parasites that feed on the cells and fluids of
  host.

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Sporozoans
Plasmodium falciparum in blood, causes malaria
http//www.morning-earth.org/Graphic-E/BIOSPHERE/B
ios-C-ProtistsProtozoa.htm
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Sporozoans
Trypanosoma in blood causes sleeping sickness
http//www.morning-earth.org/Graphic-E/BIOSPHERE/B
ios-C-ProtistsProtozoa.htm
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Protists

• Fungus-like vs Plant or Animal-like
• Use spores to reproduce
• Tiny cell able to grow into a new organism.
• All able to move at some point in their lives.
• Water Molds and Downy Mildew

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Water Molds and Downy Mildew
http//www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/chromista/oomycota.ht
ml
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Water Molds and Downy Mildew
http//www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/do
wny-mildew-b.htm
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Protists

• Fungus-like vs Plant or Animal-like
• Use spores to reproduce
• Tiny cell able to grow into a new organism.
• All able to move at some point in their lives.
• Slime molds.

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Slime molds
http//io.uwinnipeg.ca/simmons/16cm05/1116/16prot
is.htm
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Slime molds
http//io.uwinnipeg.ca/simmons/16cm05/1116/16prot
is.htm
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Protists

• Plant-like vs Fungus-like or Animal-like
• Commonly called algae.
• All are autotrophs.
• Several Types
• Euglenoids
• Can be heterotrophic in no-light

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Euglenoids
http//www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/
euglena.gif
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Euglenoids
http//silicasecchidisk.conncoll.edu/Pics/Other20
Algae/Other_jpegs/Phacus3.jpg
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Euglenoids
http//protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/PDB/Images/Mastigopho
ra/Euglena/hemichromata/hemichromata_3.jpg
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Protists

• Plant-like vs Fungus-like or Animal-like
• Commonly called algae.
• All are autotrophs.
• Several Types
• Dinoflagellates
• unicellular algae covered in stiff plates

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Dinoflagellates
http//www.astrographics.com/GalleryPrints/Display
/GP2117.jpg
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Dinoflagellates
http//cache.eb.com/eb/image?id30670rendTypeId4
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Protists

• Plant-like vs Fungus-like or Animal-like
• Commonly called algae.
• All are autotrophs.
• Several Types
• Diatoms
• unicellular algae with glass-like cell walls

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Diatoms
http//www.digitalstar.net/microecologies/wp-conte
nt/uploads/2006/09/diatoms.jpg
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Diatoms
http//www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/image/4
7489/Diatoms1.gif
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Protists

• Plant-like vs Fungus-like or Animal-like
• Commonly called algae.
• All are autotrophs.
• Several Types
• Green Algae

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Green Algae
http//www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?
http//www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/green
.html
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Green Algae
http//www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?
http//www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/green
.html
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Protists

• Plant-like vs Fungus-like or Animal-like
• Commonly called algae.
• All are autotrophs.
• Several Types
• Red Algae
• Mostly Seaweeds

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Red Algae
http//www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?
http//www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar99/red.h
tml
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Red Algae
http//www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/rhodophyta.h
tml
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Protists

• Plant-like vs Fungus-like or Animal-like
• Commonly called algae.
• All are autotrophs.
• Several Types
• Brown Algae
• more seaweeds

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Brown Algae
http//www.hawaii.edu/reefalgae/invasive_algae/pha
eo/sargpolytankcu2_small.jpg