Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PROTIST
- GENERAL INFORMATION
- most are
unicellular
- eukaryotic
- grow in moist
habitats
- presence of
vacoule
- presence of
cilia/flagella
- sexual &
asexual
- cytoplasm
divided into
- endoplasm
- outer gelatinous
ectoplasm
- PROTOZOA
(animal-like)
- mostly aerobic
heterotrophs
- motile & colourless
- obtain food
through
- ingestion of
particulate bacteria
- pinocytosis
- phagocytosis
- absorption
- has 4 major
group
- Archaezoa
- flagellated &
free living
- parasitic/pathogenic
- live & grow
bloodstream
- Trypanosoma
gambiense
- Rhizopoda
- ameboid movement
by pseudopods
- phagocytosis
- freshwater habitat
- Amoeba proteus
- Ciliophora
- have thousand of
cilia
- freshwater habitat
- presence of gullet for
ingestion
- Paramecium
- Apicomplexa
- obligate parasites
- not motile in
mature forms
- Plasmodium vivax - malaria
- SLIME MOLD
- three divisions
- Myxomycota
- saphrophytes/decomposers
- multinucleated
- plasmodial slime
molds
- lack of cell
wall
- Acrasiomycota
- cellular slime molds
- individual amoeboid cells
( unicellular)
- Peronosporomycetes
- egg fungi formerly
(called oomycetes)
- no chitin in
cell wall
- some parasites of fish gills
- water molds
- Oomycota - saphrophytes
- ALGAE
- mostly
photoautotropic
- multicellular
- requires water
- asexual (all) &
sexual (some)
- simple aquatic plants
- aquatic habitat
acidic habitat
- cell wall made up of
cellulose fibrils
- free-floating
phytoplankton
- have flagella for
movement
- aquatic
- planktonic
- benthic
- neustonic
- terrestrial
- divided
into
- chlorophyta (green algae)
- chlorophyll a & b
- rhodophyta (red algae)
- chlorophyll a & d ,
phycocyanin ,
phycoerythrin
- phaeophyta (brown algae)
- chlorophyll a & c ,
xanhtophylls
- chrysophyta (diatoms)
- chlorophyll a & c
- pyrrophyta
(dinoflagellates)
- chlorophyll a & c
- euglenophyta
(considered with the
protozoa)
- chlorophyll a & b , carotene