Chapter 28 Flashcards
protists are ___
eukaryotes
protists are the oldest eukaryotes, over ___ years ago
2 billion
protists include: (3)
- animal like species- protozoa
- photosynthetic species- algae
- fungus-like species- slime molds
most protists are ___, some are ___, and some are ___
unicellular
colonial
multicellular
many protists are mobile using ___ and ___
cilia
flagella
protists reproduce ___ and ___
asexually
sexually
most are free-___, some are ___ including parasites
living
symbiotic
what do eukaryotes have that protists do not?
- mitochondria
- chloroplasts
- mitosis- cell division
- meiosis- produces gametes
- sex
- 9 + 2 flagella
- cytoskeleton
origin of eukaryotes was through ___ and ___
- infolding of plasma membranes of an ancestral prokaryote
- endosymbiosis
one type of bacteria started living inside others- origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts
endosymbiosis
- named after disc-shaped mitochondrial cristae
- many phagocytize their food
- includes parasites such as Trichomonas vaginalis and Giardia lamblia and the Euglenoids and Kinetoplastids
supergroup discoba
heterotrophs but some are photosynthetic as well. they have ribbon-like protein strips below their plasma membranes
euglenoids
have kinetoplasts, a mass of extranuclear DNA. they include the parasite Trypanosoma that causes African sleeping sickness
kinetoplastids
includes red algae, green algae, plants, cryptomonads, and haptophytes
-has plastids with 2 envelop membranes
supergroup land plants and relatives
most red algae are ___ and ___
marine
multicellular