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| an organism that is not a plant, animal, fungi, prokaryote, or a bacterium |
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| comes from the Greek word meaning "the very first" |
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| Zoomastigina (zooflagellates) |
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| animal-like protists that swim using flagella |
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| examples of zooflagellates |
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| Trichomas vaginalis, Leishmania donovani, etc. |
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| animallike protists that use pseudopods for feeding and movement |
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| type of motion used by sarcodines |
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| small cavity in the cytoplasm that temporarily stores food |
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| shortlike hair projections (similar 2 flagella) that are used for movement |
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| very small, bottle-shaped structures used for defense |
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| the larger of a ciliate's 2 nuclei that contains multiple copies of most of the genes that the cell needs in its day-to-day activities |
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| the smaller of a ciliates 2 nuclei that contains a "reverse copy" of all the cell's genes |
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| an indentation in one side of cilia that is used to sweep food particles into |
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| region of the cell membrane of a ciliate where waste-containing food vacuoles fuse and are then emptied into the environment |
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| cavities in the cytoplasm that are specialized to collect water |
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| process where cells exchange genetic information (occurs with ciliates) |
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| do not move on their own and are parasitic |
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| Examples of disease causing protists and their diseases |
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| Mosquitos (malaria), tsetse flies (African sleeping sickness), etc |
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| compounds other than chlorophyll that obsorb light at different wavelengths than chlorophyll |
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| primarily photosynthetic, live in freshwater, and have 2 unequal flagella |
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| flexible outer covering of a euglena that allows it to change direction swiftly |
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| includes yellow-green algae and golden-brown algae |
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| plantlike protists that have goldn-colored chloroplasts |
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| produce thin, delicate cell walls of silicon (the main component of glass) |
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| phylum for dinoflagelletes |
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| live in saltwater, are phtosynthetic, and have rigid cell walls of cellulose |
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| population of algae and other small, photosynthetic organisms found near the surface of the ocean and forming part of plankton |
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| live almost entirely in saltwater, contain the red pigment phycobilins |
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| accessory pigment found in red algae that is especially good in absorbing blue light |
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| live in almost entirely in saltwater, multicellular, and contain the brown pigment fucoxanthin |
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| live in fresh and saltwater, have food stored as starch, have chlorophyll simialr to that in vascular plants |
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| alternation of generations |
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| process in which many algae switch back in forth beween haploid and diploid stages of thei life cycles |
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| spore-producing organisms |
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| funguslike protists that play key roles in recycling organic material |
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| phylum for cellular slime molds |
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| cells spertaed by cell membranes |
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| a slender, reproductive structure that produces spores |
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| phylum for acellular slime molds |
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| pass through a stage in which their cells fuse to form large cells with many nuclei |
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| thrive on dead or decaying organic matter in water and some are plant parasites on land |
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| produce female nuclei in water molds |
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| produce male nuclei in water molds |
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