Unit 1: Biodiversity Section 2 Flashcards
General characteristics of protists
-Mostly single celled organisms
-Eukaryotes
-generally live in an aquatic environment
What are the three main groups of protists
-Animal like protists
-Fungus like protists
-Plant like protists
Animal like protists
-heterotrophs (doesn’t create its own food)
-Many are parasites
Ex. Phylum cercozoan, phylum ciliophora, phylum zoomastigina, phylum sporozoa
Parasites
-reside in another organism (the host) and takes their nutrients at their expense.
Phylum Cercozoan
-They do not have a cell wall and their shape changes using an eternal cytoskeleton
-They have temporary extensions of their cytoplasm called pseudopods which are used for locomotion and feeding
Phylum Ciliophora
-Have short hair projections called cilia, used for locomotion and sweeping away food particles.
-Large and complex
-Some are parasites
Phylum Zoomastigina
-They have flagella to help them move by whipping side to side
-Some are parasites
-Some are mutualistic meaning both the flagellate and the organism benefit
Phylum Sporozoa
-Parasites to animals
-Life cycles alternate between sexual and asexual reproduction
Plant like protists
Diatoms
-Diverse
-Rigid cell wall made of silica
-Prefer asexual reproduction through mitosis
Dinoflagellates
-Phytoplankton but have 2 flagella
-Reproduce quickly leading to algal bloom
-Responsible for red tide (an algal bloom that has a red pigment)
Euglenoids
-found in shallow water
-have a chloroplast to do photosynthesis and can also eat (autotrophic and heterotrophic)
-have an eyespot to detect light
Fungus like protists
-Heterotrophs called decomposers
-Produce a spore to reproduce
-Have a cell wall but different from plants and fungus
Algae
-A multicellular protist
-Photosynthetic
Types of algae
-Brown algae
-Red algae
-Green algae
Brown Algae
-largest and most complex protist
-don’t have true roots but create “underwater” forest as shelter for marine life
-responsible for 70% of our oxygen
Red Algae
-Believed to be the first multicellular organism on earth
-Photosynthetic and have chlorophyll
Green Algae
-Mostly aquatic, freshwater
-Plant like
-Chlorophyll and cell wall with cellulose
General characteristics of the Fungus kingdom
-Eukaryotes
-Multicellular (except yeast)
-Heterotrophs that feed by releasing digestive enzymes
-Absorb digested nutrients into their cells
-Many are decomposers
-Have a cell wall made of a carb called CHITIN
-Live on dying and dead organisms
Structure of Fungi
-Hyphae are the basic structural unit of fungi
-Hyphae are dense & difficult to separate
-They form a branching network called mycelium
-Mycelia live in soil and absorb nutrients from dying woods and animals.
-Reproduce using the fruiting body
-Fruiting body reproduce using spores
Fungal reproduction
-Reproduce sexually and asexually
-Asexual: Produces a spore as gametes that is haploid (only has 1 set of DNA “n”)
-Sexual: Gametes fuse to create a diploid reproductive cell (which has 2 sets of DNA “2n”) called a sporophyte tage