Protists Flashcards
Flagellates
Phytoflagellates(Euglenida, chlorophyta, dinoflagellata) and Zooflagellates(diplomonadida)
Euglenida
Freshwater and marine
Phytoflagellates
Contractile vacuole, chloroplasts, 1 flagellum
Contractile Vacuole
Excretes excess water from cytoplasm (Euglenida)
Chloroplast
Photosynthesis (Euglenida)
Chlorophyta
Green algae- Volvox One flagella per cell
Colonial, mixatroph
Dinoflagellata
Salt/ fresh water has 2 flagella
-Some toxic/ bioluminescent
Thecal plates, annulus
Thecal Plates
Protection (dinoflagellata)
Annulus
Area with transverse flagella (Dinoflagellata)
Diplomonadida
Zooflagellata- Giardia (Beaver fever)
Lacks mitochondria and golgi apparatus
8 flagella and 2 nuclei
Adhesive disk
Kinetoplastida
Zooflagelata- Trypanosoma- Parasitic= 1 flagellata African Sickness and transmitted by biting flies Undulating membrane (movement)
Sarcodines
Amoebas, Chaos Chaos, difflugia
Contractile vacuole, food vacuole
Contractile Vacuole
Collects excretory waste (Sarcodines)
Food Vacuole
Storage
Chaos Chaos
Many nucleus
Amoeba
One nuclei