Chapter 28-Protists Flashcards
Protists
unicellular eukaryotes that are NOT plants, animals or fungi
Protists are free living meaning
found in water, damp soil, leaf litter, other moist places
Protists are symbionts
inhabit the Body fluids, tissues , or cells
Protists reproduce by:
Asexual and sexual reproduction:
sexual reproduction by meiosis and fertilization
Protists are ____ autotrophs
photo, heterotrophs, mixotrophs
photoautotrophs contain
chloroplasts
heterotrophs absorb
organic molecules
mixotrophs, combine photosynthesis and
hetrrorphic nutriton
Endosymbiosis
process in which a unicellular organism engulfs another cell
Plastid bearing lineage of protists evolved into
red and green algae
4 Supergroups of Eukaryootes (ESAU)
Excavata
SAR
Archaeplastida
Unikonta
Excavata are
protists with modified mitochondria and unique flagella
Excavata 3 clades (DPE)
Diplomonads, Parabasalids, Euglenozoans
diplomonads have: (4)
modified mitochondria
derive energy anaerobically by glycolysis
2 equal sized nuclei and multiple flagella
often parasites
Diplomonads example
stomach parasite; giardia intestinalis
Parabasalids have (1_
Reduced mitochondria
Parabasalids example
Trichomonas Vaginalis (std causing agent)
Euglenozoans (3)
Includes retro, photo, auto, mix, trophs, pathogenic parasites
main feature is a spiral or crystalline rod
clade includes the kinetoplastids
Euglenozoans 2 groups
Kinetoplastids + Euglenids
Kinetoplastids effect
cause sleeping sickness
large mitochondria contains DNA kinetoplast
Kinetoplastids example
Trypanosome ( African sleeping condition)
Euglenids (2)
Mixotrophs, contain chloroplast and obtain nutrients
contain flagella
Euglenids example
Euglena
Trypanosoma ( Euzloans—> Kinet.
evade immune responses by switching surface proteins
prevent host from developing immunity