Lecture 14- Protists Flashcards
Several types of protists can cause ____
Disease
Dinoflagellates definition
- photosynthetic
- toxin-producing
- protists
Some protists are _____, half of the fixed CO2 on earth is caused by _____
photosynthetic, marine protists
Endosymbiosis theory
mitochondria originated when bacterial cell took up residence inside another cell
Endosymbiosis definition
when an organism of one species lives inside the cells of an organism of another species.
Ways that protists feed
- Ingested packets of food (phagocytosis)
- absorbing organic molecules from the environment
- performing photosynthesis
What other organelle does endosymbiosis theory work for?
Chloroplast
Since a chloroplast has two membranes it came from ____
primary endocytosis
Endosymbiosis theory for chloroplasts
chloroplasts occur in four major protist lineages and these protists acquired their chloroplasts via secondary endosymbiosis.
Chloroplasts that under went secondary symbiosis have ____ membranes
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Sexual reproduction is uniquely _____ and originated in ____
eukaryotic, protists