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Sarcodina: Protists with False Feet

Sarcodina: Protists with False Feet. · The phylum Sarcodina contains protists that use temporary projections of cytoplasm to move and feed. · Pseudopods are usually thought as being rounded and broad. · Some sarcodines have thin, strand like pseudopods and others have web-like pseudopods.

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Sarcodina: Protists with False Feet

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  1. Sarcodina: Protists with False Feet • ·The phylum Sarcodina contains protists that use temporary projections of cytoplasm to move and feed. • ·Pseudopods are usually thought as being rounded and broad. • ·Some sarcodines have thin, strand like pseudopods and others have web-like pseudopods.

  2. Sarcodina - comes from the word sarcode - in the 19th century to describe the homogenous "jelly" from which the cells were thought to be compound.

  3. Amebas ·Major family of the Sarcodina.  ·Amebas are flexible, active cells, without cell walls, flagella, cilia, and even a definite shape.  ·Move by the thick pseudopods - extends out of the central mass of the cell.  ·The cytoplasm of the cell streams into the pseudopod, and the rest of the cell follows.  This motion is known as ameboid movement.

  4. Food and other cells Ameba is capable of capturing and eating particles of food and even other cells.

  5. How does it eat? ·First the ameba surrounds its meal with streaming cytoplasm and then taking it inside the cell to form the food vacuole. ·When it is inside the cell, the material is digested rapidly and the nutrients are passed along to the rest of the cell. How does it reproduce? Amebas reproduce by binary fission - one large ameba divides by mitosis to produce two smaller, but identical, amebas

  6. Amebas are not the only member of the phylum Sarcodina?!?!?!?!?!?!?! ·The phylum also includes three groups known as heliozoans, radiolarians, and foraminifers. ·Most of these protists are beautiful organisms - they produce external shells to help support their unusual. Some heliozoans and radiolarians do not have shells.........many produce delicate shells of silica (SiO2) - glass like substance.

  7. Foraminifers Secrete shells of calcium carbonate (CaCo3). They're are abundant in warmer regions of the oceans. When the foraminifers die, the calcium carbonate from their shells accumulate on the ocean bottom. • (In some regions thick deposits of foraminifer skeletons have formed on the ocean floor .....example: The white chalk cliffs of Dover, England are huge deposits of foraminifers skeletons that were raised above sea level .

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