1. Unicellular plants and animals
Kingdom Protista
Unicellular plants and animals

2. General Information Protista, from the Greek protistos = first
Diverse group
Aka Algae & Protozoa
Most are Unicellular
exception: Volvox is colonial

3. Characteristics
A. Eukaryotic
(have a nucleus)

4. Characteristics B. Many feeding patterns some plant-like, (autotrophs)
some animal-like, (heterotrophs)
some fungus-like(absorb food from the dead)
some parasite-like (pathogens, eat the living)

5. Characteristics C. Big or tiny D. Unicellular or colonial
E.Have weird features, like photosensitive areas (eyespots)

6. 3. Habitats
Almost anywhere there is water

7. 4. Reproduction
Asexual
Sexual
Both, alternating

8. Ciliophora - Conjugation8

9. Reproduction Alternation of Generations
☯ switch btwn. asexual repro. (spores)
& sexual repro. (gametes) & back again

10. 5. Specialized Cells Cells specialized for f(x)s Division of labor
E.g. holdfast cell, gamete-forming cells
Holdfast cell

11. 6. Classification by Exclusion
✿ If organism doesn’t belong in any other phylum, put it in this one!
I.e. Weirdos go in this group!

12. 7. Protist Groups Pseudopodia for locomotion = “false feet”
Animal-like, parasites
AMOEBAS
E.g. ★Amoeba
E.g. Entamoeba histolytica
(amoebic dysentary)

13. 7. Protist Groups b. Foraminifera Source of CaCO3
(calcium carbonate / chalk)
E.g. The
white cliffs
of Dover

14. 7. Protist Groups c. Diatoms
Photosynthetic, unicellular, double shells
of SiO3(glass)

15. 7. Protist Groups
d. Green Algae
plant-like protists
E.g. ★Volvox

16. 7. Protist Groups e. Red Algae Source of agar
(growth medium for bacteria)

17. 8. Protist Groups
f. Brown Algae
E.g.
kelp

18. 7. Protist Groups g. Dinoflagellates
Protists with Flagella (animal-like)
Capable of bioluminescence
(glowing in the dark)
the red tide
makes scallops
toxic to humans

19. Red (Crimson) Tide

20. 7. Protist Groups ✰Causes giardia / backpackers’ disease
✰Trichonympha in termites
digest wood (cellulose)

21. 8. Protist Groups
h. Euglenoids e.g. ★Euglena
★use flagella to move

22. 7. Protist Groups
i. Cilia for locomotion -Ciliates)
★Paramecium

23. 7. Protist Groups
j. Slime Molds
Multicellular
Single cellular

24. 7. Protist Groups k. Water Molds E.g. potato blight
Caused potato famine
in Ireland
400,000 starved

25. 7. Protist Groups Cannot move themselves
l. ★Sporozoans
Cannot move themselves
Move via vectors (things that carry them)

26. l. ★Sporozoans EXAMPLES: E.g. Plasmodium (causes malaria)
vector = Anopheles mosquito
E.g. Toxoplasmolysis (from cat feces
causes fetal death)
E.g. African sleeping sickness
vector = tsetse fly