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Protists Flashcards

1
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Eukaryotes under protists

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Algae

Protozoa

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2
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Plant-like protist

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Algae

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3
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Algae. Uni or Multi?

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Both. Some colonial

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4
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Algae. Cell wall?

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Thin and rigid

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5
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Most algae are pathogentic or not?

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Non-pathogenic

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6
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Algae are found where?

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Areas with light and moisture

Occurs in freshwater, salt water, and soil

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7
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Algae morpholgy

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Flagella
Cell Wall
Plastids
Pigments

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8
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Bear photosynthetic pigments

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Plastids

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9
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Site of CO2 fixation and starch formation

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Pyrenoids

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10
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Parts for phototaxis

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Eyespot

Stigma

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11
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Unicellular algae and a model system for photosynthesis

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Chlamydomonas

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12
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Examples of algae pigments

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Chlorophylls
Carotenoids
Phycobilins

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13
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Red phycobilin

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Phycoerythrobilin

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14
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Orange phycobilin

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Phycourobilin

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15
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Purple phycobilin

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Phycoviolobilin

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16
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Blue phycobilin

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Phycocyanobilin or

Phycobiliverdin

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17
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Algae reproduction

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Both asexual and sexual

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18
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Examples of asexual

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Binary fission

Fragmentation

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19
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Examples of sexual

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Conjugation

  • isogamy
  • heterogamy
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20
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Algae importance

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Primary producers - phytoplankton
Fertilizer
Commercial products - eg agar
Source of food/food supplements

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21
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Algae criteria for classification

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Principal pigments
Photosynthetic/storage products
Cell wall
Mode of motility
Mode of reproduction
Usual habitat
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22
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Know as the first animals

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Protozoa

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23
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Eukaryotic; Unicellular
Lacks CW but with rigid CM
Motile
Heterotrophic

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Protoza

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24
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Protozao distribution

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Free-living

Symbiotic

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25
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Importance of protozoa

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Role in economy of nature
- form large part of plankton
Tools in biochemical/molecular structure
Cause human/animal disease

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26
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Protozoa vegetative, feeding form

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Trophozoite

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27
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Protozoa resting stage

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Cyst

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28
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Protozoa morphology

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Cilia
Flagella
Psuedopodia (false feet)
Vacuoles
Shells
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29
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For water regulation

For digestion

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Vacuoles

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30
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Plasma membrane where cilia are attached

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Pellicle

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31
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Area inside ectoplasm that contains most of the organelles

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Endoplasm

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32
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Semisolid/gelatinous cytoplasm that imparts rigidity to cell

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Ectoplasm

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33
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Protozoa nuclei

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Macronucleus

Micronucleus

34
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Controls normal metabolism of the cell

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Macronucleus

35
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Function on sexual reproduction

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Micronucleus

36
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Protozoa nutrition

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Holozoic

Saprozoic

37
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Nutrition through phagocytosis (engulfing and digesting particles)

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Holozoic

38
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Nutrition through absorbing particles

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Saprozoic

39
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Example of asexual reproduction or fission

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Simple
Longitudinal
Transverse
Multiple

40
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Protozoa causing diseases

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Cutaneous leishmaniasis
Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
Giardiasis
African sleeping sickness
Amoebiasis
41
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High level taxonomic group below domain and above kingdom

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Supergroup

42
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Supergroups under protists

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Acheaplastida
Chromalveolata
Excavata
Amoebozoa
Ophistokonta
Rhizaria
43
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Red and green algae
Also includes lands plants
They have plastids

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Archaeplastida

44
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Uncellular green algae with pyrenoid and eyespot

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Chlamydomonas sp.

45
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Colonial green algae

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Volvox sp.

46
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Multi cellular green algae

Aka “sea lettuce”

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Ulva sp.

47
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Multicellular green algae

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Spirogyra sp.

48
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Red algae examples

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Gelidium sp.
Gracilaria sp.
Erythrophyllum sp.
Microcladia sp.
Phorphyra sp.
49
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Brown and golden alagae, water molds, and the alveolates

Most have plastids

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Chromalveolata

50
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Chromarveolata consists of

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Stramenopiles

Alveolates

51
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Include brown algae, diatoms, golden brown algae, and water molds

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Stramenopiles

52
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Include dinoflagellates, ciliates, and apicomplexans

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Alveolates

53
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Brown algae examples

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Fucus sp.
Sargassum sp.
Giant Kelps

54
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Have an outer layer of silica
They are algae
Important in earth’s carbon cycle

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Diatoms

55
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Have an outer layer of silica

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Golden brown algae

56
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Aka oomycetes “egg fungus”

Closely related to fungi

A

Water molds

57
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Can form harmful algal blooms called red tides

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Dinoflagellates

58
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Examples of ciliates

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Balantidum sp.
Paramecium sp.
Didinium sp.

59
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Nonmotile parasites that form spores

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Apicomplexans

60
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Cause malaria through Anopheles mosquito

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Plasmodium sp.

61
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Causes toxoplasmosis from eating udercookes meat, exposure from infected cat feces, or mother-child during pregnancy

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Toxoplasma sp.

62
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Zooflagellates

Often with distinctive oral grooves

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Excavata

63
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Single celled motile protists

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Euglenids
Parabasalids
Diplomonads
Kinetoplastids

64
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Photoautotrophic, flagellated cells with a pellicle instead of a cell wall

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Euglenids

65
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Parasitic excavates

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Kinetoplastids

66
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Causes Chagas diseases and African sleeping sickness

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Trypanosoma sp.

67
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Causes leishmaniasis

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Leishmania sp.

68
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Example of parabasalids

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Trichomonas vaginalis

69
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Example of diplomonads

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Giardia lamblia

70
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Protists that use pseudopods for motility and feeding

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Amoebozoa

  • amoeboids
  • slime molds
71
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Move and feed by phagocytosis

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Amoeboids

72
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Freshwater amoeboids

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Amoeba proteus

73
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Causes amoebiasis

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Entamoeba histolytica

74
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Includes foraminiferans and radiolarians that have threadlike pseudopods and skeleton called tests (porous shells of forams)

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Rhizaria

75
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Form a deep layer of sediment on the ocean floor that can be used as index fossils

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Tests

76
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Calcium carbonate shells

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Foraminiferans

77
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Silica Shells

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Radiolarians

78
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Includes animals, animal-like choanoflagellates, fungi, fungus like protists called nucleariids

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Ophistokonta

79
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Animal-like protozoans that are near relatives of sponges

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Choanoflagellates

80
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Closest group of organisms related to fungi

Unicellular, amoeboid protists with filose (thread like) pseudopodia

A

Nucleariids

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