Lesson 4.1: Protozoa Flashcards
Protozoa
Kingdom: ___
Nutritional type:
Multicellularity:
Cell arrangement:
Food acquisition method:
Characteristic features:
Embryo formation:
Kingdom: protista
Nutritional type: chemoheterotroph
Multicellularity: none
Cell arrangement: unicellular
Food acquisition method: absorptive; ingestive (cytosome)
Characteristic features: motility; som from cysts
Embryo formation: none
What does the term protozoa mean?
“first animals”
The feeding and growing stage of a protozoan
Trophozoite
What does a protozoa not have?
Organs or tissues
Locomotion of a protozoa
Flagella, pseudopodia, cilia, amd direct cell movements; some sessile
3 asexual reproduction of a protozoa
- Fission
- Budding
- Schizogony
Asexual reproduction im which the organelles are duplicated and the protozoan then divides.into two complete organisms
Fission
In fission, what does micronucleus undergoes
Mitosis