PROTISTS

1. Animal-like
2. unicellular
3. aerobic,anaerobic
4. colourless
5. motile
6. parasitic , phatogenic

1. asexual
   1. fission
   2. budding
   3. schizogony
2. sexual
   1. conjugation

Annotations:

• How the obtain food and nutrients??

1. Ingestion/swallow
   1. via
      1. gullet/cytostome
   2. bacteria
      1. particulate or whole
2. pinocytosis
   1. fluid suck
3. phagocytosis
   1. surround food particle
4. absorption
   1. via plasma membrane

1. Archeazoa
   1. flagellated
   2. parasitic
   3. Trypanosoma gambiense
      1. African sleeping sickness
2. Rhizopoda
   1. Amoebas
   2. pseudopods

      Annotations:

      • movement
   3. amoebic dysentry
   4. Amoeba proteus
3. Ciliophora
   1. cillia
   2. nuclei
      1. micronucleus
         1. inheritance
         2. sexual reproduction
      2. macronucleus
         1. production of mRNA
   3. Paramecium
4. Apicomplexa
   1. not motile
   2. obligate parasites
   3. Plasmodium vivax
      1. Malaria

1. asexual
   1. fragmentation
   2. spores
   3. binary fission
2. sexual
   1. female
      1. oogonia
   2. male
      1. antheridia

1. based on :
   1. Cell wall
      1. modified cellulose fibril
      2. calcium carbonate
         1. coraline algae
      3. chitin or silica
   2. Habitat
      1. aquatic
         1. fresh water
         2. brackish
         3. marine
      2. acidic
      3. moist soil
   3. Flagella
      1. single
         1. Euglena
      2. two/ 4 flagella
         1. Chlorophyta
      3. two of different length
         1. Dinoflagellates
   4. Chlorophyll

1. Chlorophyta
   1. green
   2. cellulose cell wall
   3. chlorophyll a and b
   4. store glucose polymer
   5. teresstial
2. Rhodophyta
   1. red
   2. chlorophyll a and d , phycocyanin, phycoerythrin
   3. red pigment absorb blue light
   4. store glucose polymer
   5. marine
3. Phaedophyta
   1. brown
   2. chlorophyll a and c, xanthophylls
   3. algin cell wall
   4. store carbohydrates
   5. coastal water

      Annotations:

      • marine
4. Chrysophyta
   1. Diatoms- Bacillariophyta
      1. golden-brown
      2. produce domoic acid
      3. store oil
      4. chlorophyl a and c
      5. fresh water, marine, soil
5. Pyrrophyta
   1. Dinoflagellates
      1. brownish
      2. produce neurotoxins
      3. store starch
      4. cause red tides
      5. freshwater, marine

1. moist terrestial habitat
   1. soil
   2. dung
   3. decaying woods
2. engulf bacteria
3. as decomposer and consumer
4. recycling of nutrient
5. cause disease to plants

1. Myxomycota
   1. acellular
   2. saprophytes
   3. multinucleated
   4. motile amoeboid mass
      1. plasmodium
   5. phagocytosized dead material
2. Acrasiomycota
   1. cellular
   2. individual amoebic cells
   3. feed phagocytically
   4. divide by mitosis and cytokinesis
3. Peronosporomycetes
   1. oomycetes
      1. diploid
      2. no chitin cell wall
      3. habitat
         1. grow on dead algae and animals
         2. parasites of fish gills
      4. plant disease
         1. blue mold
         2. Irish potato blight
   2. water molds