Unicellular Labs Flashcards
Euglena Deses
-Phylum: Eugleonza
-Class: Euglenoidea
-Autotrophic and Heterotrophic
-red pigment, stigma detects light
-two flagella: sensory & swimming
-outer casting called pellicle
Trypanosoma Cruzi & Brucei
-Phylum: Eugleonza
-Class: Trypanosomatidea
-endoparasites & blood parasites
-cruzi: transmitted through the kissing bug stores in the intestines that causes a disease called chagas
-brucei: transmitted through tsetese fly by the salvary glands. causes sleeping sickness
Leishmania
-Phylum: Eugleonza
-Class: Trypanosomatidea
-transmitted by the sandsfly through the salvary glands
-causes subcutaneous skin eating disease, leishmaniasis
Paramecium
-Phylum: Ciliophora
-two nuclei: micronucelus & macronucelus
-binary fission, model organism, common food source
Balantindium coli
-Phylum: Ciliophora
-intestinal (colons) mostly in pigs (asymptomatic)
-unicellular
-causes explosive diarrhea in humans (ciliated form)
Spirostomum
-Phylum: Ciliophora
-large protozoan
-high contractile
-nucleus a string of beads
-covered with rows of cilia
Ephelota
-Phylum: Ciliophora
-symbiotic with Obelia
Trichomonas Vaginalis
-Phylum: parabasala
-causes trichomoniasis, an STD that is most common protozoan infection in industrialized nations
-vaginitis in women, asymptomatic in male
Plasmodium Falciparum/Virax
-phylum: apicomplexa
-transmitted by mosquitoes that have malaria
Phylum Foraminifera
test made of calcium carbonate from environment, ocean sediment on the mud of the oceans. shells they make depend on temperature, acidity, and calcium
Phylum Radiolaria
test made out of silica
symmetrical (spherical & glass)
recticulopds that stick out of the holes of to form a net to make food
Amoeba proteus
Phylum: amoeboza
predator, catches prey with pseudopods
naked amoeba
marine and freshwater
eats through phagocytosis
slow moving
difflugia
Phylum: amoeboza
freshwater
predatory shelled amoeba
makes their shell out of things of the environment
lobopods (shelled feet) to swim and eat
kept with algae
Entamoeba Histolytica
Phylum: amoeboza
parasite
causes amoebic dynstery, infection by drinking cysts in contained water
Arcella
Phylum: Amoeboza
freshwater, shelled amoeba
testate out of silica
Giardia lambila
Phylum: diplomonada
ventral sucker
intestinal parasite
causes giardiasis, infection via contaminated water
Naelgeria Fowleri
phylum: heterolobosea
amoeba, no flagella
scary clown face amoeba
brain eating amoeba through the nose
found in slow moving lakes and rivers
diatoms
phylum: stramenopiles
glass skeletons
diatomaceous earth
actinophyrs
phylum: stramenopiles
catches food on its conveyor belt axopods
zooxanthella
phylum: dinoflagellata
common symbiotic of marine organisms, photosynthetic
ceratium
phylum: dinoflagellata
loves nitrogen
algal blooms, red tide
noctiluna
phylum: dinoflagellata
bioluminescent upon oxygen
toxoplasma gondii
phylum: apicomplexa
toxoplasmosis, transmitted by cats and other mammals
causes brain damage in infants, might effect mood and behavior
Volvox
phylum: Viridiplantae
colonial
sexual & asexual cycle
cell differentiation,
multi&unicellular
autotrophic
acanthamoeba
Phylum: Amoebozoa
environmental protozoan that can cause blindness when transferred to eyes via unwashed hands and contacts
dictyostelium
phylum: Amoebozoa
slime mold and social when needed
choanflagellates
Clade Opisthokonta
collar microvilli, can communicate with other cells
sister to true animals
