Protozoan Groups Flashcards
Are diverse assemblage with mixed affinities. They lack a cell wall. They have at least one motile stage in life cycle. Most ingest their food
Protozoa
Have the simplest exoskeleton
Shelled protozoa
Basic enzymes system support all types of nutrition
Autotrophic
Saprozoic
Holozoic
Shows that protozoa do not form a monophyletic membrane
Phylogenetic sttudy
Shows that protozoa do not form a monophyletic membrane
Phylogenetic study
Members of axostylata have a stiffening ron composed of microtubules, the______
Axostyle
Members of the class parabasalea has a _____, which is a golgi apparatus connected by a fiber to one of the kenetosomes
Parabasal body
Trichomonadida poses _________ which are organelles analous to mitochondria but which produce molecular hydrogen when oxygen is absent
Hydrogeneosomes
Infects the urogenital tract of humans and is sexually transmitted
Trichomonas vaginalis
This includes two subgroup of protozoa that move by either ______ or _______
Psuedopodia, flagella
The flagelated protozoa
Subfhylum mastigophora
Lack Chromoplasts and have holozoic and saprozoic nutrition most are symbiotic
Zooflagellates
Important genus protozoa in parasites some are not pathogenic
Trypanosoma
Cause African sleeping sickness in human
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense
Cause related disease in domestic animals
Trypanosoma brucei brucei