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PROTISTS

PROTISTS. PROTISTS – “MISFITS”. SINGLE-CELLED OR SIMPLE MULTICELLULAR EUKARYOTIC ORGANISMS THAT DO NOT FIT IN ANY OTHER KINGDOM. ANIMAL-LIKE PROTISTS. SINGLE-CELLED HETEROTROPHS. Trypanosoma brucei , a flagellate protozoan causing sleeping sickness in humans;.

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PROTISTS

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  1. PROTISTS

  2. PROTISTS – “MISFITS” • SINGLE-CELLED OR SIMPLE MULTICELLULAR EUKARYOTIC ORGANISMS THAT DO NOT FIT IN ANY OTHER KINGDOM

  3. ANIMAL-LIKE PROTISTS • SINGLE-CELLED HETEROTROPHS Trypanosomabrucei, a flagellate protozoan causing sleeping sickness in humans; Amobae of Entamoebahistolytica, the cause of amoebic dysentery in humans; Balantidium coli, a usually harmless ciliate parasite of the intestine of pigs Babesiasp., an apicomplexan parasite in the red blood cells of an African lion Symbiotic ciliates from the rumen of cattle Symbiotic ciliates from the rumen of cattle

  4. PHYLUM PROTOZOA • PSEUDOPODIA – LARGE, ROUNDED CYTOPLASMIC EXTENSIONS THAT FUNCTION IN MOVEMENT AND FEEDING

  5. PHYLUM CILIOPHORA • CILIA – SHORT, HAIRLIKE CYTOPLASMIC PROJECTIONS THAT LINE THE CELL MEMBRANE AND MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO MOVE PARAMECIUM

  6. PLANT-LIKE PROTISTS • KNOWN AS ALGAE AND ARE AUTOTROPHIC GREEN ALGAE BROWN ALGAE - KELP

  7. DIATOMS

  8. FUNGUS-LIKE PROTISTS SLIME MOLDS WATER MOLDS • FOUND ON MOIST, DECAYING MATTER • FOUND IN WATER • MOST ARE PARASITIC

  9. PROTIST SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS ALGAE & CORAL ALGAE & FUNGUS • ALGAE GIVE CORAL COLOR AND CARBOHYDRATES • FORMS LICHEN • GROW ON NEWLY EXPOSED ROCK

  10. Trichonympha and termite gut • Help termites digest cellulose

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