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Mixed Protozoa

Mixed Protozoa. What You Might See in The Lab TODAY. AMOEBA. Blob-like, changes shape 500-1000 um Move by “amoeboid movement” Protist Movie. Amoeba. Move by pushing a pseudopod of cytoplasm Here it is engulfing food Amoeboid movement movie. Paramecium. Protist Movies

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Mixed Protozoa

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  1. Mixed Protozoa What You Might See in The Lab TODAY

  2. AMOEBA Blob-like, changes shape 500-1000 um Move by “amoeboid movement” Protist Movie

  3. Amoeba • Move by pushing a pseudopod of cytoplasm • Here it is engulfing food • Amoeboid movement movie

  4. Paramecium • Protist Movies • Cilia beat for movement • Move in a spiral • Slipper shaped • 100-350 um long. 

  5. Paramecium Feeding • Click on Paramecium Bursaria • Feeding and Cilia

  6. Volvox • Protist Movie • Colony of many green protists with flagella that help the ball move • 100-6000 microns across.

  7. Volvox: Colony Net

  8. Individual volvox organism

  9. Euglena • Very small, green • Euglena are 35-55 um long • Move with flagella • Protist Movies: Euglena gracilis

  10. See flagella Click on Flagellate

  11. Stentor • Protist Movies: Stentor roeseli • Cilia on top of trumpet-shape

  12. Note cilia Cool Cilia Movie

  13. Assorted Algae

  14. Heliozoans Projections out from circular body

  15. Rotifer Spinning cilia

  16. Three Protozoans:stentor, amoeba, heliozoan

  17. Shelled Amoeba

  18. Good Links • Pond water critters you can see with a microscope • Mic-UK [site A]: An overview of microscopic pond life - protozoa, major freshwater groups • Molecular Expressions Digital Video Gallery: Pond Life • Protozoa and Photomicrography

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