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Mixotrophs

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Combine photosynthesis and heterotrophic nutrition

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Protists

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They are eukaryotes

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Endosymbiosis

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Process when a unicellular organism engulfs another cell, which becomes an endosymbiont and the organ in the host

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Excavata

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A clade characterized by cytoskeleton

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Diplomonads

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Have microsomes and are often parasites

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Parabasalids

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Have hydrogen isomers that generate energy anaerobically. Includes a pathogen that causes yeast infections

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Euglenozoan

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A clade that includes predatory heterotrophs, phoyosynthetic autotrophs, and parasites. Main feature is a spiral rod in flagella

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Chromalveolata

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Originated by secondary endosymbiosis

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Alveolata

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Have membrane bound sac under plasma membrane.

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Dinoflagellates

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Have 2 flagella and each cell is reinforced by cellulose plates. In marine and freshwater

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Apicomplexans

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Parasites of animals. Some cause serious human diseases

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Ciliates

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Protista named for their use of cilia to move and feed

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Stamenopila

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A clade that has phototrophs and heterotrophs. Most have smooth and hairy flagellum

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What does the clade stramenophiles include?

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Diatoms, golden algae, brown algae, and oomycetes

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What does the clade alveolates include?

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Dinoflagellates, apicplexans, and ciliates

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Diatoms

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Unicellular algae with two part, glass like wall of hydrated silica

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Golden algae

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Phoyosynthetic and some are mixotrophs

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Brown algae

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Largest and most complex. Multicellular and most marine.

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Oomycyetes

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Considered fungi based on morphological studiesz most are decomposers or parasites

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What does DNA evidence support as a monophyletic clade

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Rhizaria

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Archaea plastida

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Supergroup that includes red algae, green algae, and land plants

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Red algae

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Usually multicellular. Most abundant

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Green algae

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The two main groups are chlorophytes and charophyceans

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Charophytes

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Most closely related to land plants

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Unikonta

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Supergroup that includes animal, fungi and some Protista. Includes two clades: amoebozoans, episthokonts

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Amoebozoans

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Amoeba that have lobe or tube shaped rather than threadlike pseudopodia

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Producers

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Protist that obtain energy from the sun