Toxic Protists Flashcards
mitochondria in diplomonads
mitosomes
mitochrondria in parabasalids
hydrogenosomes
reduced mitochrondria that lack functional electron transport chains and hence cannot use oxygen to help extract energy from carbohydrates and other organic molecules
mitosomes
reduced mitochrondria that generate some energy anaerobically, releasing hydrogen gas as a by-product
hydrogenosomes
Excavate with two nuclei
diplomonads
Giardia group
diplomonad
Trichomonas vaginalis group
parabasalid
have a rod with either a spiral or a crystalline structure inside each of their flagella
euglenozoa
two best-studied groups of euglenozoans
kinetoplastids and the euglenids
contains Trypanosomes
kinetoplastids
cause Chagas disease
Trypanosomes
single, large mitochondrion that contains an organized mass of DNA
kinetoplastids
pocket at one end of the cell from which one or two flagella emerge
euglenids
“hairy” flagellum is paired with a shorter “smooth” (nonhairy) flagellum
straemopila
gel-forming substance in cell walls of brown algae
algin
brown algae used in Japanese soups
Laminaria
membrane-enclosed sacs just under the plasma membrane
alveolates
flagella in dinoflagellates
2
tiny infectious cells in apicomplexans
sporozoites
Main genuses of mosquitos
Aedes, Anopheles, Culex
house mosquito species
Culex pipiens