Locomotion Flashcards
1
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Locomotion
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Allows an organism to survive via to find food, water, shelter, mate, avoid predators, etc
2
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Motile
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To be able to produce movement
3
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Protists and the three forms of locomotion
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Ameba, paramecium, algae and other protozoa
4
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Ameba
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Ameboid motion = cytoplasm flows into the pseudopods
5
Q
Paramecium
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Cilia motion = hairlike organelles wave back and forth in a beating fashion
6
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Algae and other Protozoa
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Flagella motion = long hairlike tail that whips around pulling the organism through water
7
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Humans
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Skeletal/endoskeletal = interaction between muscles and joined appendages “bones and cartilage”
