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Introduction into Protists Flashcards

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1
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Reasons to study protists?

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  • Understand diversity of life
  • Food chain
  • Photosynthesis
  • Mutualistic symbiosis with other organisms
  • Understanding stress responses
  • Models of multicellularity
  • Predators and Prey
  • Agents of disease
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Do protist make up little or much of the eukaryotic tree of life?

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Very much of tree of life

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Who discovered protists?

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Leeuwenhoek

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Define protists:

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  • Group based on general similarities but exhibit a wide range of morphologies, inhabit many different habitats
  • Unrelated to plants, animal and fungi
  • Widespread
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What do protists have in common with one another?

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  • Require a water-based environment (fresh/marine/snow/damp soil/animal gut)
  • Undergo mitosis
  • Require presence of oxygen
  • Unicellular
  • Motile
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How do protists differ?

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  • How they obtain nutrition

- How they move

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What are different ways in which protists can obtain nutrients?

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  • Phagocytosis
  • Photosynthesis
  • Absorption of nutrients
  • Symbiosis
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What are different ways in which protists move?

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  • Pseudopodia
  • Cilia
  • Flagella
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Are zooxanthellae autotrophs or heterotrophs?

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autotrophs

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Are Euglena autotrophs or heterotrophs?

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Heterotrophs

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What are zooxanthellae?

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Symbiotic dinoflagellate protists that live within hard or stony corals

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What does it mean for zooxanthellae to be autotrophs?

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Produce all nutritional substances required for them to live

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How much do zooxanthellae provide of coral energy via photosynthesis?

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80%

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What do zooxanthellae take up?

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Nutrients released by corals metabolism such as Nitrogen and Carbons Dioxide

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What is Euglena?

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  • Single, motile, flagellum for movement
  • Sense light using red “eye spot”
  • Contain chloroplast
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What do Euglena feed on in the dark?

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Other protists

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What shows extensive evidence of protists preying on other protists?

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Fossil record

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What may have played a critical role in the diversification of eukaryotes?

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Predation

19
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Why are protists considered all eukaryotes?

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  • Cells have nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles

- Most single-celled

20
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What was the last eukaryotic common ancestor?

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Flagellated protist

21
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What are many of intracellular organelles of protists?

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Flagellate or ciliate

22
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What are different morphologies of protists?

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  • Amoebae
  • Flagellates
  • Ciliates
  • Cysts/Cocci
  • Hyphae
  • Diatoms
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Why is it difficult to classify just on morphology?

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Some protists have different morphological stages dependent on life cycle and enviroment

24
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What has advances in DNA sequencing allowed?

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Classification protists with greater preseason

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What are dinoflagellates?

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  • Marine/photosynthesis/free-living or endosymbionts
  • Two flagella (equatorial/longitudinal groove)
  • Amoeboid form
  • Primary producers of organic mater
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What can dinoflagellate endosymbionts with?

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Coral

27
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What is dinoflagellate associated with?

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Toxic red tides

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What are loboseans?

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  • Naked or testate form
  • Predators, parasites or scavengers
  • Heterotrophic
  • Phagocytes
  • Free living
  • Disease causing
29
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What are heteroloboseans?

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Amoeboid organisms

Disease causing

30
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What disease does heterolobosean causes?

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Brain eating amoeba

31
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What are ciliates?

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  • Possesses hair-like cilia (allow complex behaviours)
  • Complex cellular forms = contractile/digestive vacuoles
  • Two types of nuclei
  • Most heterotrophic
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What are euglenoids?

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  • Flagellate with universal paracrystalline rod
  • Mitochondria
  • Cell shape determined by spiralling strips of protein
  • Some photosynthetic with photoreceptors
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What are kinetoplastids?

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  • Unicellular, flagellate with unique paracrystalline rod
  • Mitochondrion = kinetoplast
  • Medically important vector-borne pathogens
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What are phaeophyta?

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  • Marine
  • Multicellular filaments
  • Sessile/planktonic form
  • Giant kelps
  • Important in industry (cosmetics/ice cream)
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What are diplomonads?

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  • Unicellular, posses mitosomes
  • Posses two nuclei of equal size
  • Multiple flagella
  • Disease causing
36
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What disease does giardiasis?

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Giardia lamblia

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What are parabasilids?

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  • Parabasal body
  • Hydrogenosomes (anaerobic)
  • Genome lacks introns (2x size of human)
  • Disease causing
38
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What are diatoms?

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  • Unicellular (some associate with filaments)
  • Carotenoids give golden or brown colour
  • Only male gamete have flagella
  • Two-piece silica cell walls
  • Bilateral or radial symmetry
  • Synthesis aquatic, phytoplankton
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What are foramiferans?

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  • Plantonic or sessile
  • External, spiral shells or calcium carbonate or chitin
  • Branching pseudopods extend through shell apertures to form a sticky reticulate net
  • Contributor to lime stone
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What are radiolarians?

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  • Marine heterotrophs
  • Tests made up of silica
  • Thin, stiff pseudopods reinforced by microtubules
  • Radial symmetry
  • Largest unicells
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What are myxomycetes?

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  • Cellular slime moulds
  • Single celled haploid myxamoebae
  • Nutrient starvation = myxamoebae swarm to make pseudoplasmodium (multicellular) or slugs (migrate)
  • Produce stalk and sporangium
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What are apicocomplexans?

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  • Contains an apical complex that facilitate host invasion
  • All parasites
  • May complex life-cycles and multiple hosts
43
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What are many medically important pathogens?

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Protists

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