Lesson 5a. Protozoan Group Flashcards
Diverse assemblage with mixed affinities
Protozoa
3 characteristics of protozoa
They lack a cell wall
They have at least one motile stage
Most ingest their food
One criteria for metazoa
Embryonic development
Members of __________ have a stiffening rod composed of microtobules, the ___________
Axostylata, axostyle
Members of the class ___________ have a __________, which is a golgi apparatus connected by a fiber to one of the kinetosomes
Parabasalea, parabasal body
Trichomonadida posses ________
Hydrogeneosomes
Organelles analogous to mitochondria but which produce molecular hydrogen when oxygen is absent
Hydrogeneosomes
It infects the urogenital tract of humans and is sexually transmitted
Trichomonas vaginalis (italicized)
Lack both mitochondria and golgi bodies
Retortamonds
Includes two subgroups of a protozoa that move by either pseudopodia or flagella
Phylum sarcomastigophora
The flagellated protozoa
Subphylum mastigophora
Divided into class phytomastiophorea with chlorophyll and animal like zoomastigophorea without chlorophyll
Subphylum mastigophora
The amoeba and relatives
Phylum sarcodina
The other 3 parts of subphylum mastigophora
Some are naked and some have shells
Radiolaria
Foraminifera
Subphylum actinopoda
Rhizopoda
Third representative type
Subphylum kinetoplasta
Lack chromoplasts and have holozoic or saprozoic nutrition
Zooflagellates
Important genus of protozoan parasites; some are not pathogenic
Trypanosoma
Cause african sleeping sickness in humans
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense
Causes a related disease in domestic animal
Trypanosoma brucei brucei
Trypanosoma are transmitted by
Tsetse flies
Causes chagas disease in central and south America
Trypanosoma cruzi (italicized)
Carried by a bug and causes nervous system problem
Trypanosoma cruzi
Cause visceral disease in humans; transmitted by sand flies
Leishmania (italicized) species
Live in the cecum, colon, mouth and urogenital tracts of human
Trichomonas (italicized)
4th representative type
Subphylum sarcodina
In the superclass rhizopoda, most commonly studied
Amoeba proteus (italicized)
Freshwater but require a substratum on which to crawl
Subphylum sarcodina