Kingdom: Protist

Question 1

protist description, tendencies

Answer 1

description: eukaryotes not fungus, plant, or animal
tendencies: single celled, live in aquatic/moist habitats

Question 2

ecosystem services

Answer 2

basis of aquatic food chains

produce O2 (photosynthesis)

Question 3

metabolic morphology 3 main groups

Answer 3

plant like - photosynthesize (seaweeds)

animal like - predators (paramesium)

fungus like - extracellular digestion (slime mold)

Question 4

animal type movement

Answer 4

flagella (trypansoma)

cilia (paramesium)

cytoplasmic streaming (amoeba)

Question 5

pathogenic protists

Answer 5

Plasmodium falciparum - malaria, 1mil. deaths/yr

algal bloom - diatome, plankton cause red tide, may carry neurotoxin that can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning

Phytophthora infestans - Irish potato blight 1845 caused 1mil out of 9mil people to die

Question 6

vector

Answer 6

carries something