Observed Specimen:

Ameoba

Observed Specimen:

Phylum Euglenozoa

it is holophytic, meaning through photosynthesis. 

makes nutrients from CO2 and H2O with the aid of chlorophyll and sunlight

a genus of zooflagellates that are parasites living in the blood or other tissues in vertebrates

lack a chlorophyll

Observed Specimen:

Trypanosoma

obtains nutrients from the environment

obsorbs nutrients from the blood or other body fluid

• Higher taxonomic status uncertain
• order: Euamoebida
• Species: Amoeba proteus

• Food vacuoles- could easily be seen as they have  darker coloring than the cytoplasm around them (particles of food enclosed in a membrane)
• Contractile vacuole- a clear bubble containing no particles. (used for osmorequlation; it expels excess water taken in during phagocytosis)
• Nucleus- darker than its surroundings although not usually as dark as the food vacuoles (control center of the cell; membrane bound DNA)
• Pseudopodia- long extensions that can be seen reacching or retracting (used for locomotion and increasing surface area)

• Phylum: Euglenozoa
• Subphylum: Euglenida
• Class: Euglenoidea
• Genus & Species: Euglena gracilis (or Euglena viridis)

Observed Specimen:

Euglena

Observed Specimen

Euglena Slide 2

• Nucleus
• Chloroplasts: used to synthesize food making them autotrophic- (looks like intestines running through the specimen)
• Contractile vacuoles- only sometimes
• Stigma- "eyespot"- a reddish spot that is thought to be light sensitive
• Flagellum: a long, spindly projectiong out of the anterior end of the specimen that is used for locomotion 

Observed Specimen:

Trypansoma

• Phylum: Euglenozoa
• Subphylum: Kinetoplasta
• Class: Tranosomatidea
• Genus: Trypanosoma

• flagellum
• nucleus
• kinetoplast: a small body of material aside from the nucleus and at the base of the flagellum
• undulating membrane: an extension of the flagellum along the length of the cell membrane

Observed Specimen:

Plasmodium

Observed Specimen:

Pasmodium 2

• Phylum: Apicomplexa
• Class: Coccidea
• Order: Eucoccidia
• Family: Plasmodiidea
• Genus: Plasmodium

• the only organisms we saw were inside of red blood cells

Observed Specimen:

Paramecium

• Phylum: Ciliophora
• Class: Oligohymenophorea
• subclass: Hymenostomatia
• Genus: Paramecium

• cilia: used for locomotion
• macronucleus: the larger of two nuclei found ciliates
• pellicle: a harder membrane outside the plasma membrane
• food vacules: membrane-bound sacs of food
• Oral groove: mouth like area made for the drawing in of nutrients

Observed Specimen:

Scypha

Phylum: Porifera

Class: Calcarea

Genus: Scypha

• Apopyles: Small pores that opens from the radial canals into the spongeocoel
• Canals
• Choancytes: lines the radial canals: seen with high powered lens 
• incurrent canals: open up to the exterior
• osculum: large opening opposite the base of the sponge
• Dermal Ostium: where the incurrent canals open to the exterior
• Radial Canals: the canal system throughout the sponge
• spongeocoel: large interior opening of the sponge

• phylum: Porifera
• class: Calcarea
• Order: Heterocoela
• Genus: Sycon
• recognized by syconoid sponge type

• phylum: Cnidaria
• Class: Hydrazoa
• order: hydroida
• SubOrder: Anthomedusa
• Genus: Hydra

• hypostome: the elevated area surrounded by tentacles
• tentacles
• Gastrovascular cavity: where digestion occurs for hydra

• phylum: Cnidaria
• Class: hydrozoa
• order: hydroida
• Suborder: Leptomedusae
• Genus: Obelia

• hydranth: nutriitive polyps
• Gonagium: reproductive polyps
• Tentacles
• Hypostome
• Medusa Buds: seen within the gonania; become free-swimming medusae

• the ennaria colonies grow off of one side of the stalk while Obelia grow in many directions
• In the Obelia the ganagium is segmented unlinke the Pennaria

Observed Specimen:

Pennaria

• phylum: Cnidaria
• Class: Hydrozoa
• Order: Anthoathecatae
• SubordeR: Capitata
• Genus: Pennaria 

• Hydranth
• Ganagium
• Coenosarc- a hallow tube composed of epidermis, mesolea, and a gastrodermis
• Perisarc- a thin protective case around the colony

• Phylum: Cnidaria
• Class: Scyphozoa
• Order: Semaeostomege
• Family: Ulmaridae
• Genus and Species: Aurelia aurita

• Phylum: Cnidaria
• Class: Anthozoa
• Subclass: Hexacorallia
• Order: Actiniaria
• Genus and Species: Metridium senile

Asconoia: Spongocoel

Synconoid: Radial Chamber

Leuconoid: Flagellated Chamber

food particles are formed after they are sept in by the cillia

filter feeds

they are all eukaryotes and a nucleus

• absense  of a cell wall
• presense of at least one motile stage of life. 

label each organism as flagellated, amoeboid, spore-forming or ciliated

• Euglena
• Tranosoma
• Plasmodium
• Paramecium
• Stentor
• Amoeba

• Euglena: Flagellated
• trypanosoma: Flagellated
• Plasmodium: Spore-forming
• Paramecium: ciliated
• Stentor: ciliated
• Amoeba: amoeboid