1. Animal Like Protists Amoeba Has ‘pseudopods’ – false feet
Allow it to move and engulf other organisms

2. Animal Like Protists Paramecium Moves using cilia Has two nuclei
Contractile vacuole

3. Paramecium

4. Animal Like Protists Stentor – “trumpet animalcule”
Has cilia to move water and organism near it for feeding

5. Mixotroph photosynthesis and heterotrophy Euglena
depends on availability of light and nutrients
Euglena

6. Reproduction Binary fission Split in half Alternation of generations*
Reproduce through spores
spore that can travel further away and then form a new organism
*often in plants

7. Benefits from protists
Photosynthesis – produce oxygen
Food web
Food products/thickening agents (Carrageenan, made from algae)
Carbon cycle
symbiosis

8. Problems with Protists
Malaria
Caused by Plasmodium protist, spread via mosquitos
Symptoms are fever, chills, headache, nausea
Giardia
Type of protist that causes giardia
Symptom is intestinal issues
Algae blooms