1. Kingdom: Protista

2. What is a Protist? Eukaryotic Unicellular or multicellular
Heterotroph or autotroph
Some have cell walls

3. Movement & Support Pseudopods Cilia Flagella Some have cell walls
Shells of silica and calcium carbonate
Some algae have holdfasts and air bladders
Pellicle

4. Digestion/Obtaining Nutrients
Heterotroph
Endocytosis
Diffusion
Decomposers
Oral groove, cilia, gullet, food vacuoles
Autotrophs with pigments and chloroplasts

5. Nervous/Response Nucleus (macro and micro) Formation of cysts
Eye spot for light detection
Bioluminescent
Produce toxins

6. Circulation
Flow of cytoplasm

7. Gas Exchange
Diffusion

8. Excretion
Diffusion
Contractile vacuole
Anal pore

9. Reproduction Sexual – gametes Asexual – binary fission Conjugation
Spores
Fragmentation

10. Helpful Protists
Algae
Diatoms

11. Harmful Protists
Entamoeba histolytica
Giardia lamblia

12. Trichonympha
Trypanosomes

13. Gonyaulaux catanella
Phytophtora infestans

14. Malaria
Plasmodium