Protists

Question 1

Protozoa
Algae
(4)

Answer 1

• heterotrophs (p), autotrophs (a)
• unicellular (p), both uni and multicellular (a)
• move around to find food (p), mostly free floating (a)
• animal like (p), plant like (a)
• amoeba (p), red algae (a)

Question 2

Malaria

5

Answer 2

• plasmodium
• fevers, chills, headaches,muscle aches, vomiting, tiredness (flu-like symptoms)
• cerebral causes anemia (repeated destruction of red blood cells),kidney anemia and kidney failure, life long neurologic damage
• death : destruction of red blood cells, clogging of the capillaries that take blood to the brain
• costs for individual and government

Question 3

Plasmodium
Mosquito
(7)

Answer 3

• plasmodium uses the mosquito as a vector to infect other hosts
• the female mosquito will find a blood source to try and feed its children
• the mosquito will get the blood and in the case that it is infected, the parasite will travel into the stomach where it will from cysts that will burst - they then move to the salivary glands of the mosquito
• the parasite travels into the blood
• where it will infect the red blood cells of the liver
• red blood cells will burst
• Plasmodium cause the disease which can be transported by the mosquito to new hosts