Protista Flashcards
Heterotrophs
Absorb organic molecules or ingest larger food particles
Photo autotrophs
Contain chloroplast
Mixitrophs
combine photosynthesis and heterotrophic nutrition
Endosymbiotic hypothesis
1980 Lynn Margulis
Prokaryotic cell engulfed another prokaryotic cell and eventually became organelle
Excavates include
Diplomonads
Parabasalids
Euglenozoans
Excavates
Unique flagella
Lack plastid
Excavated groove
Diplomonads
2 nuclei
Multiple flagella
Giardia intestinalis
Parabasalids
Flagella
Undulating membrane
Trichomonas vaginalis
Euglenozoans
Flagella
Spiral or crystalline rod
Kinetipkastids
Euglenids
Kinetoplastids
Kinetoplast- single large mitochondrion with an organized mass of DNA
Trypanosoma spp
Trypanosoma spp
Parasitic kinetoplastids
Trypanosoma brucei (African sleeping sickness) Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas' disease)
Trypanosoma brucei brucei
Pigs
Cattle rodents
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
Humans, monkeys, dogs, pigs, antelopes
West and central africa
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense
Humans, wild game, pigs
East and central Africa
Euglenids
One or two flagella
Glucose polymer paramylon