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Protozoa II Chapter 8
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Outline Protection Feeding strategies Reproduction –Sexual –Asexual Life cycle
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Amoeba Tests Sand and Chitin Calcium Carbonate –Foraminifora: marine Silica –Radolarians: marine forms, oldest, known protists
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Testate amoeb as Centropyxis sp. Arcella sp. Difflugia sp.
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Amoeba Tests Sand and Chitin Calcium Carbonate –Foraminifora: marine Silica –Radolarians: marine forms, oldest, known protists
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Amoeba Tests Sand and Chitin Calcium Carbonate –Foraminifora: marine Silica –Radolarians: marine forms, oldest, known protists
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Feeding Strategies 1.Autotrophs- synthesize their own food 2.Heterotrophs- consume food made by others --Osmotrophs-ingest food in soluble form. --Phagotrophs-ingest visible particles of food.
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Phagotrophs I.Sucking II.Feeding currents III.Pseudopods
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General Feeding Process
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1.Food (prey) particle is brought near the body
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General Feeding Process 1.Food (prey) particle is brought near the body 2.Particle is brought into the cell by infolding or invagination --Food vacuole or phagosome
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General Feeding Process 1.Food (prey) particle is brought near the body 2.Particle is brought into the cell by infolding or invagination --Food vacuole or phagosome 3.Lysosomes fuse with vacuole
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General Feeding Process 1.Food (prey) particle is brought near the body 2.Particle is brought into the cell by infolding or invagination --Food vacuole or phagosome 3.Lysosomes fuse with vacuole 4.As food is digested, its products are taken into the cell across the vacuole membrane
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General Feeding Process 1.Food (prey) particle is brought near the body 2.Particle is brought into the cell by infolding or invagination --Food vacuole or phagosome 3.Lysosomes fuse with vacuole 4.As food is digested, its products are taken into the cell across the vacuole membrane 5.Undigested food is expelled
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Food Lysosome Food vacuole
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Getting rid of waist Egestion vacuoles, release waist by exocytosis, and some protozoans have a specialized region of the plasma membrane or pellicle to do this The CYTOPYGE!
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I. Sucking By tentacles Suctorian ciliate Use long narrow tentacles to attach to prey items Tentacles help it move food into the cell
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I. Sucking Using the oral groove e.g. Didinium (ciliate) Attaches to prey item and ingests food through a temporary cytostome (cell mouth)
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Feeding Using the Cytostome
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II. Feeding Currents This is a semi-passive feeding mechanism in which food is brought to the oral opening by creating water currents Used by ciliates and flagellates Organism usually sessile
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Codosiga
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Flagellar feeding currents Particles are brought into the collar Pseudopods move the particles into the cell
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III. Pseudopods Used by amoebae Pseudopods surround food particles Encloses it inside body
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Protozoan Reproduction Asexual 1. Binary fission 2. Budding 3. Multiple fission Sexual 4. Conjugation
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I. Binary fission Division of one parent individual into two equal daughter individuals
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Life Cycle of Trypanosoma brucei
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Trypanosoma brucei: African Sleeping Sickness
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The Vector Glossina
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African Trypanosomiasis Course of Infection Invasion of Central Nervous System-African Sleeping Sickness.
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II. Budding Division of one parent individual into two or more unequal daughter individuals. The smaller daughter individual must mature.
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III. Multiple fission Division of one parent individual into numerous individuals, simultaneously.
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Life cycle of Plasmodium (Malaria)
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Ciliate life cycle Life cycles include –Asexual binary fission –Conjugations (sexual): temporary union of two individuals for the function of exchanging genetic material
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The Big Picture Protists can be divided into two main groups depending on feeding strategy. Phagocytosis is a common type of feeding strategy How phagocytic protists feed differs widely Reproduction in protists is mainly by binary fission, ciliates and apicomplexans have sexual reproduction!
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