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Heterotrophs

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Absorb organic molecules or ingest larger food particles

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Photo autotrophs

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Contain chloroplast

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Mixitrophs

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combine photosynthesis and heterotrophic nutrition

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Endosymbiotic hypothesis

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1980 Lynn Margulis

Prokaryotic cell engulfed another prokaryotic cell and eventually became organelle

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Excavates include

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Diplomonads
Parabasalids
Euglenozoans

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Excavates

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Unique flagella
Lack plastid
Excavated groove

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Diplomonads

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2 nuclei
Multiple flagella
Giardia intestinalis

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Parabasalids

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Flagella
Undulating membrane
Trichomonas vaginalis

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Euglenozoans

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Flagella
Spiral or crystalline rod

Kinetipkastids
Euglenids

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Kinetoplastids

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Kinetoplast- single large mitochondrion with an organized mass of DNA
Trypanosoma spp

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Trypanosoma spp

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Parasitic kinetoplastids

Trypanosoma brucei (African sleeping sickness)
Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas' disease)
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Trypanosoma brucei brucei

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Pigs

Cattle rodents

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Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

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Humans, monkeys, dogs, pigs, antelopes

West and central africa

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Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

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Humans, wild game, pigs

East and central Africa

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Euglenids

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One or two flagella

Glucose polymer paramylon

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Chromalveolates

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Alveolates

Stramenopiles

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Alveolates

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Membrane-bound sacs

Dinoflagellates
Apicomplexa
Ciliphora

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Diniflagellates

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Internal plates of cellulos

Two flagella in perpendicular grooves

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Red tides

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Rapid growth of dinoflagellates

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Dinoflagellates types

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Gonyaulax (shellfish poisoning)
Gambierduscus (ciguatera, Caribbean reef fish)
Pfisteria shumayae (kiss fish, human illness)
Peridinium

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Apicomplexans

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Apical complexes at one end

Life cycles require 2 or more host for completion (definite host and intermediate host)

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Apicomplexans ex

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Plasmodium spp
Toxoplasma
Cryptosporidium
Cyclospora

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Ciliates

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Cilia
Macro nuclei and micronuclei
Conjugation and binary fission

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Stramenopiles

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Hairy flagellum and smooth flagellum

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Stramenopiles ex

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Oomycota
Bacillariophyta
Chryophyta
Phaeophyta

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Oomycetes

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Water mold
Decomposers
Cellulose cell wall

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Diatoms

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Algae

Silica cell wall

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Goldman algae

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Yellow and brown carotenoids

Biflagellated

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Brown algae

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Cells walls of cellulose and algin
Holdfast- holds to substrate
Stipe- stem
Blade- leaf