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Kingdom Protista
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General Information
1. Diverse group (not a plant, animal, fungus, or bacterium)
2. All eukaryotes3. Most are unicellular4. Can be photoautotrophic or heterotrophic5. If motile, usually use flagella (but
sometimes only in part of the life cycle like reproductive cells)
6. 3 major groups
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What are Plankton?
• Unicellular aquatic organisms– Usually protists– Can include animal larvae or small
crustaceans– Important in aquatic food chains– 2 types:
• Phytoplankton- photoautrophic• Zooplankton- heterotrophic
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The Plant-Like Protists (ALGAE)
1. Phylum Euglenophyta (Euglenoids)– Ex. Euglena– ~900 species– Unicellular– Motile with flagella– Photosynthetic– No cell wall (pellicle instead)– Mostly freshwater– Reproduce via simple cell division
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The Plant-Like Protists (ALGAE)
2. Phylum Bacillariophyta (Golden Algae)– Diatoms– ~100000 extant species– Mostly unicellular– 2-part outer shell (frustule)– Cell wall of silica (glass-like)– Diatomaceous earth– Photosynthetic– Abrasive- used in toothpastes, scouring pads,
cosmetics, silver polish– Major component of aquatic ecosystems
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The Plant-Like Protists (ALGAE)
3. Phylum Chlorophyta (Green Algae)– Ex. Volvox– ~1700 species (very diverse)– Unicellular and multicellular– With chlorophyll for photosynthesis– Mostly freshwater– Believed to have given rise to modern-day
plants
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The Plant-Like Protists (ALGAE)
4. Phylum Phaeophyta (Brown Algae)– Ex. Seaweed, kelp– ~1500 species– Multicellular– “roots” and “leaves”– Source of iodine– Used in fertilizers– Photosynthetic– Almost entirely marine
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The Plant-Like Protists (ALGAE)
5. Phylum Rhodophyta (Red Algae)– Ex. Coralline algae, nori– ~5000 species– Autotrophs– Multicellular and very complex– Carageenan and/or agar in cells used in
making agar for petri dishes, ice cream, pudding, gel caps for pills, makeup
– Food items
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The Plant-Like Protists (ALGAE)
6. Phylum Dinophyta (Dinoflagellates)– Ex. – Unicellular– Autotrophs, heterotrophs, few parasites – Motile with flagella– Some bioluminescent when disturbed– Algal blooms/ red tide (up to 20 million cells/ liter;
neurotoxin)– Many are zooxanthellae (symbiosis in hosts such as
coral reefs)
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The Plant-Like Protists (ALGAE)
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The Plant-Like Protists (ALGAE)
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The Animal-Like Protists (PROTOZOANS)
1. Phylum Sarcodina (Rhizoids)– Ex. Amoeba, foraminiferans, Entamoeba hystolytica– ~12000 extant species– Pseudopodia (false feet) for moving and engulfing
prey– Use cytoplasm and pseudopodia to move– Some chalk-like, some glass-like– When forams die, their tests (protective shell-like
covering) sink and accumulate in large batches• Great Pyramids of Egypt are built from sandstone
composed largely of fossilized giant Nummulites, an ancient kind of foram
• The famous White Cliffs of Dover are limestone cliffs formed from the skeletal remains of forams
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The Animal-Like Protists (PROTOZOANS)
2. Phylum Ciliophora (Cilates)– Ex. Paramecium– Motile with cilia– Cilia beat in synchronized waves and
thereby propel the organism through water – Macronucleus for metabolism and
micronucleus for reproduction
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The Animal-Like Protists (PROTOZOANS)
3. Phylum Mastigophora (Flagellates)– Ex.
• Trypanosoma gambiense (African sleeping sickness via tsetse fly)
• Trichonympha and Trichomonas (termites’ digestive tracts)
• Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas’ disease)• Giardia lamblia (abdominal pain and diarrhea)
– Motile with flagella
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The Animal-Like Protists (PROTOZOANS)
4. Phylum Apicomplexa (Sporozoans)– Ex.
• Plasmodium (malaria)• Cryptosporidium (chronic diarrhea)• Toxoplasma (cats/ fecal contamination- exposure
to humans)
– Sessile– Parasites
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The Animal-Like Protists (PROTOZOANS)
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The Fungus-Like Protists (SLIME MOLDS)
– Sometimes unicellular, sometimes multicellular– Recycle organic matter (decomposers)– Phyla– Phyla
• Myxomycota- Plasmodial slime molds – formed when individual flagellated cells swarm together and
fuse – Amoeboid movement, phagocytosis
• Oomycota– Water molds and downy mildews
• Acrasiomycota- cellular slime molds– These spend most of their lives as separate amoeboid cells;
however, upon the release of a chemical signal, the individual cells aggregate into a great swarm.
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The Fungus-Like Protists (SLIME MOLDS)
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The Fungus-Like Protists (SLIME MOLDS)In 2000, a team of Japanese and Hungarian researchers, writing in the journal Nature,1 claimed to have found the slime mold Physarum polycephalum is capable of finding the shortest way through a maze. Pieces of the slime mould were enticed through a 30-square-centimeter (five-square-inch) maze by the prospect of food at the end of the puzzle. The researchers concluded that the creature was exhibiting a kind of primitive intelligence.
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The Fungus-Like Protists (SLIME MOLDS)
•http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=slime%20molds&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
Physarum polycephalum also serves as the brain of a six-legged robot developed at the University of Southampton, England. The slime-mold, which naturally shies away from light, controls the robot's movement so that it too keeps out of light and seeks out dark places in which to hide itself.