Protista Flashcards
Exam 1
Autotrophic
make their own food
heterotrophic
they obtain organic molecules synthesized by other organisms
saprozoic
soak up things by secreting enzymes, then taking them into the cell membrane
Plant like
photosynthetic
Animal Like
Eat
Movement
Cilia, pseudopod, flagella, sessile
How can we classify eukaryotes?
Movement, Nutrition, Plantlike or Animal like, genetics
Volvox
Clade: Viridiplantae
Phylum: Chlorophyta
Has zooids that have two flagella movement.
Zygote is more resistant phase
Asexual: daughter colony escapes.
Sexual: Has male/female structures to produce zygote
Phylum Diplomonada
very primitive group because they lack mitochondria and golgi bodies. Ex. Giardia lamblia .
Humans injest the cyst by drinking infected water. Grows into a trophozoite in the small intestine. Munches on the mucus on the vili. Results in explosive Diarrhea because of the loss of absorption. Has two nuclei and a axostyle for stability
Phylum Euglenozoa
Contains C. Phytoflagellates and C. kinetoplastids
Have a stigma that is light sensitive, a pellicle, and a paramylon granule (used for storing starch). The flagella is anchored by basal bodies. Has a contractile vacuole.
C. Kinetoplastic
Flagella is anchored along the cell surface (Undulating Membrane).
Ex. Trypanosoma brucei (Causes sleeping sickness). T. Cruzi causes Chaga’s disease.
Trypanosoma brucei
Kinetoplastid vector: tsetse fly. Typansome in saliva of fly injected into host, host develops chacre and lymph nodes swell. The parasite will live in the bloodstream. and will be taken in by another fly. Has antigen shifting
Clade Stramenopiles
Have hairy flagella, Diatoms, brown algae
Phylum Amoebazoa
The are single celled. Have ectoplasm, endoplasm, move by pseudopods, contractive vacuole, some have testate, reproduce by binary fission, some are parasitic
Phylum Cercozoa
Heliozoans, have modified psuedopods, axopods,