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- Rhodophyta(red algae) hqarvested for agars and carrageenana in the food industry.
- Chlorophyta(Green Algae) Major biofoulers and progenitors of land plants
- Phaeophyta(brown algae) Cell walls contain alginates used in food industry. |
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- Euglenoid Flagellates (Euglenophyta) Protistan pirates common in aquatic habitats, flagellated cell has taken up green chloroplast.
-Dinoflagellates (Dinophyta) Protistan pirates common in freshwater and marine habitats, has stolen a red chloroplast, flagellated cell responsible for toxic ‘red tides’. |
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| are unicellear, complex, covered with flaella and contain a micronudeus and a macronudeus. They are predatory and feed on bacteria, protists and other ciliates. |
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| Choanoflagellates (Consumers) |
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- Give raise to animals
- tiny unicellular/ heterotrophic protists which live in aquatic habitats. |
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| Slime moulds(Absorber and Recycler) |
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| Amoeboid Protists) Heterotrophic but absorb or engulf food after it is digested externally. Major decomposers, reproduce by spores either cellular or acellular. |
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| Oomycetes (Absorber and Recycler) |
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| Superficially like true fungi, zoospore infects plant tissue hyphal filaments penetrate and parasitize cells. (eg. Late blight of potatoes) |
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| Apicomplexa (Absorber and Recycler) |
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| (Malaria) Protistan pirates with reduced chloroplasts not needed as they are parasitic and feed off other living animals. Apical complex used to penetrate host cells. |
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