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02 - Protozoa Flashcards

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(Overview)

  1. single-celled eukaryote
  2. most “primitive” in animal kingdom

(picture is of a paramecium)

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sarcodina = amoeba

mastigophora = flagellate

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these aren’t really exam questions… he says - to put thing in context he says

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ciliophora = ciliates

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(Basic Definitions)

  1. what is motile feeding form of protozoan called?
  2. What is the resting form?
  3. what is encystation?
  4. excystation?
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  1. trophozoite
  2. cyst
  3. becomes cyst
  4. goes back to non-cyst

(check these)

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(Basic Protozoal Structure)

(Nucleus)

figure this out

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(BAsic Protozoal Structure)

(mitochondria)

  1. allow what?
  2. do anaerobes have them?

(Golgi complex)

  1. what do they do?
  2. may disappear during encystation
  3. parabasal body = golgi (parabasal filament)
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  1. aerobic metabolism
  2. no
  3. glycosylation

(he said we wouldn’t need to remember this… but learn anyway)

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(Locomotory organelles)

(Pseudopodia)

  1. what is it?
  2. powered by what?
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  1. temporary locomotory organelle
  2. sol/gel transformations
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(Locomotory organelles)

(flagella)

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(Locomotory Organelles)

(undulating membrane)

  1. what have finlike organelle associated with a flagella?
  2. What have fused cilia associated with gullet?
  3. what are small flagella but more numerous?
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  1. mastigophora
  2. ciliates
  3. cilia
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(Reproduction)

(Asexual Forms)

  1. reproduce mainly how?
  2. which do longitudial? transverse?
  3. what divides first… nucleus or cytoplasm?
  4. how do vesicular nuclei and micronuclei divide?
  5. How do macronuclei divide?
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  1. binary fission (each individual divides in two)
  2. flagellates; ciliates
  3. nucleus
  4. mitotically
  5. amitotically
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(reproduction)
(asexual forms)
(multiple fission – schizogony or merogony)

  1. what is it?
  2. what do this?
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  1. repeated nuclear division before cytokinesis
  2. apicomplexa, some amoebas
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(Reproduction: Sexual Forms)

  1. what is the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote
  2. what is it called when two ciliates join and exchange genetic material? Only what unite? Macronuclei do what? Micronuclei?
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  1. syngamy

  1. conjugation; nuclei; degenerates; divide a number of times
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