Labs 6-11 Flashcards
What is a protozoan?
Animal-like protist; eukaryote!!
What are the basic characteristics of a protozoan?
Single-celled, heterotrophic, organelles instead of organs and tissue
Where are protozoans typically found?
Water; fresh and marine
What’s the function of the contractile vacuole?
It’s an organelle found in freshwater protozoans used to get rid of excess water
What are the 4 protozoan groups?
Excavata, alveolates, rhizarians, unikonta
What group does the Trypanosoma (African Sleep Sickness) belong to? hint: it’s a parasite
Excavata
What are the 2 subgroups of alveolates?
Ciliates and Apicomplexa
Name 2 defining factors of ciliates
They have cilias for movement and they have 2 nuclei
What is the function of the 2 nuclei in ciliates?
- Reproduction through binary fission 2. Metabolism and growth
What group and subgroup does paramecium belong to?
Alveolates, subgroup ciliates
Name 2 defining factors of apicomplexans
- Parasitic 2. No means of locomotion
What group and subgroup does Plasmodium (Malaria) belong to? Hint: Parasitic and no means of locomotion
Alveolates, subgroup apicomplexans
What group does Radiolarians belong to?
Rhizarians
Name 3 defining factors of rhizarians
- amoeboid 2. usually have silica skeletons 3. pseudopod radiating from silica shell.
What is the subgroup of unikonta called?
Tubulinids
What does tubulinids mean?
True amoeba
Name 4 defining factors of unikontas
- Pseudopod 2. Usually freshwater 3. Reproduce through binary fission 4. Obtains food through phagocytosis
What phylum do sponges belong to?
Phylum porifera
Name the 2 classes of phylum porifera (that are covered in 1625)
Class Calcarea and class demospongiae
What are the main characteristics of phylum porifera?
- Skeletons made of small, inorganic spicules 2. Surface covered in pores (ostia)
Name 3 characteristics of the class Calcarea
- Small (<1 in.) and slender 2. Found in shallow, marine water 3. Reproduce both sexually and asexually
What class do common bath sponges and fresh water sponges fall into?
Class demospongiae
Name the 4 characteristics of the Phylum Cnidaria
- Radial Symmetry 2. Digestive cavity 3. Some muscle tissue 4. Stinging cells - cnidocytes
What are the 2 forms of the Phylum cnidaria?
Polyp and Medusa (Medusozoa)