Lab 9 Flashcards
Digestion in most animals is
Extracellular
Food is swallowed into some type of digestive cavity that is connected by some sort of passageway to outside the animal’s body. Once in the digestive cavity, food is subjected to enzymatic breakdown and only then can the now solvable nutrients be absorbed into the surrounding cells
EXTRACE3LLULAR
In protozoa digestion is (x) because food is brought directly in the cell by a type of endocytosis
Intracellular
The plasma membrane encircles the food particle until it is completely enclosed within a food vacuole. Once within the cytosol, the food vacuole fuses with a lysosomes. As the enzymes hydrolysis the food, soluble end products are absorbed across the food vacuolar membrane into the cytosol.
Phagocytosis
A membranous organelle that contains digestive enzymes
Lysosomes
When digestion is completed, the food vacuole fuses with the plasma membrane, expelling undigested contents and waste into the environment through
Exocytosis
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Sugar
Pep-
Amino acids (proteins)
Ciliates are named because of the abundance of
Hairlike appendages covering the surfaces of these organisms
The oar like action of the cilia is used for both
Locomotion and feeding
Some of the most complex unicellular organisms
Ciliates
Controls the production of messenger RNA and protein synthesis, growth, and asexual reproduction
Macronucleus
Essential for conjugation
Micronucelus
Sexual process in ciliates
Conjugation
The outer surface of ciliates, reinforced plasma membrane that maintains the shape of the organisms but still exhibits a degree of flexibility
A pellicle