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Protista
Animal like protists- protozoans
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
06/28/2007

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Term
What phylum are protozoans
Definition
sargodina, ciliophora, zoomastigina, sporozoa
Term
How are protists categorized
Definition
first 4 are animal like , next 6 are plantlike, last 2 are fungi like
Term
Sarcodina
Definition
Amoeba, foraminifera, radiolaria

all heterotrophic
Term
Describe an amoeba
Definition
protoplasm blob

plasma membrane, ectoplasm, endoplasm, nucleus, food vacuoles, contractile vacuoles

feeds by phagocytosis, creates food vacuole
Term
ciliophora
Definition
Paramecium

move using cilia

2 different types of nuclei-
macro(general control)/micro(sexual repo) {nucleus}

few are parasidic
Term
pellicle
Definition
stiff outer cover of paramecium-give shape
Term
how ciliates "eat"
Definition
oral groove, where food is swept in by cilia, to gullet and then food vacuoles form.

excrete indigestables out anal pore
Term
Trichosysts
Definition
Hunting darts/ defense for some ciliates

paramecium use to cling and feed
Term
binary fission
Definition
Ciliate asexual reproduction
Term
conjugation
Definition
sexual reproduction in paramecium
Term
Flagellates
Definition
Phylum zoomastigina

,123or0 flagellum

all heterotropic, most freeliving, some parasidic


first eukaryotes, some became plant/animal
Term
Trypanosoma gambiense
Definition
causes African sleeping sickness

tsetse fly carries flagellate
Term
Sporozoa
Definition
psuedopods, flagellated gametes

Plasmodium-malarya

highly specialized as parasites
Term
Sporozoa life cycle
Definition
alternating sexual stage and asexual spore producing stage
*from multiple "mother cell" fissions
Term
Malarya carrier
Definition
Female Anophele mosquito
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