1. Plant-like- Algae Animal-like- Protozoa Fungi-like- Slime Molds
KINGDOM PROTISTA
Plant-like- Algae
Animal-like- Protozoa
Fungi-like- Slime Molds

2. PHYLUM CHOROPHYTA (GREEN ALGAE)

3. GREEN ALGAE CHLAMYDOMONAS SPIROGYRA
Movement- two flagella (swimming type motion)
Pyrenoid- synthesizes starch
Red eyespot
Chloroplasts
Sexual and asexual reproduction
Cell wall
SPIROGYRA
End-to-end chains of cells or filaments
Attach to rocks and other objects
Ponds and streams
Ribbonlike appearance
Sexual reproduction-conjugation
Chloroplasts

4. CONTINUED GREEN ALGAE ULVA (sea lettuce) Chlorophyll a and b
Stores reserve food as starch
Thallus- body of two cells thick
Alternation of generation- next generation identical copies

5. VOLVOX Well-known colonial green algae
Hollow sphere with thousands of cells with watery interior
Cells cooperate with flagella beating in a coordinative fashion
Asexual reproduction
Daughter colony resides within the parent colony for a time

6. PHYLUM RHODOPHYTA (RED ALGAE)

7. RED ALGAE GRACILARIA AND GELIDIUM Ocean habitat
Simple filaments to complex branches with feathery, flat ribbon-like appearance
Commercially- agar, vitamins, drugs, dental impressions, cosmetics
Red in color
Agar for growing bacteria cultures
Gelatin for jams and jellies

8. PHYLUM PHAEOPHYTA (BROWN ALGAE)

9. BROWN ALGAE LAMINARIA (KELP) Other types: Macrocystis Fucus
Largest sea weed in ocean
Holdfasts- holds kelp to ocean floor
Bladder- allows blades to float to ocean surface
Chlorophylls a and c
Commercially- human food, fertilizers, ice cream, sherbet, cream cheese
Other types:
Macrocystis
Fucus

10. PHYLUM CHRYSOPHYTA DIATOMS
Some golden-brown algae and some yellow-green algae
Freshwater and marine environments
Resemble hat box (two part shell- top and a bottom)
Asexual and sexual reproduction
Cell wall of silica (commonly used to make glass)
Diatomaceous earth- remains of diatoms on the ocean floor
Commercially- filters, polishes, toothpaste, soundproof materials

11. PHYLUM PYRROPHYTA (DINOFLAGELLATES)
Chlorophylls a and c
Yellow-green and some brown
Locomotion- Two flagella
Bioluminescence (produces light)
Food for small animals in ocean
Some lack chloroplasts and are heterotrophic
Overpopulation can cause “Red Tide” (gives the appearance of the water appearing red) which can cause massive fish kills
Humans who consume shellfish that have fed during Red Tide can get ill from toxic poisons

12. PHYLUM EUGLENOPHYTA (EUGLENA)
Some autotrophs and some heterotrophs (no chloroplasts)
Locomotion- flagella
Eyespot to sense light
Ponds and ditches
Some photosynthetic
Contractile vacuoles
Nucleus

13. PHYLUM ZOOMASTIGOPHORA (ZOOFLAGELLATES)
Heterotrophic protozoans
Some parasitic- Trypanosoma transmit African Sleeping Sickness as the tsetse fly becomes the carrier
Disease causes infection of WBCs and inadequate supply of oxygen to the brain

14. PHYLUM CILIOPHORA (CILIATES)

15. PARAMECIUM Phylum Ciliophora Locomotion- cilia
Free living/ no diseases
Found in ditches and ponds
Trichocysts- oval capsule under the pellicle
Food and contractile vacuoles
Oral groove and gullet
Binary fission/conjugation
Macro- and micronuclei

16. STENTOR PHYLUM CILIOPHORA Vase-shaped Expands to consume paramecium
Cilia lines the top

17. PHYLUM RHIZODOPA (AMOEBA)
Locomotion- pseudopod
Phagocytosis
Most common- amoeba proteus
Food and contractile vacuole
Nucleus
Cytoplasm in plasma membrane
Entamoeba histolytica- lives in human intestines and causes amoebic dysentery (can be fatal)

18. PHYLUM ACTINOPODA (FORAMINIFERAS)
Made of calcium carbonate
Multi-chambered
Locomotion-Pseudopod
Dead foraminiferas collect on the bottom of the ocean floor and are indicators of oil deposits
Millions of years ago they collected and formed the White Cliffs of Dover in England
Some found in pyramids the size of silver dollars
Some also found in Mississippi

19. PHYLUM APICOMPLEXA (SPOROZOANS)

20. PLASMODIUM Immovable except by host Causes malaria
Life cycle alternates sexual and asexual phases
Anopheles mosquitoes are the carriers
Release toxic substances into the blood that invade the red blood cells
Replicate in red blood cells and burst open
Symptoms: fever, chills

21. Pneumocystic carinii Type of pneumonia seen in AIDS patients
Cysts form in lining of air sacs
Cysts containing spores divide until bursts open and spores released

22. SLIME MOLDS PHYLUM MYXOMYCOTA PHYLUM ACRASIOMYCOTA
Sporangium- reproductive structure that produces spores
Feed on phagocytic decaying plants in forest areas or agricultural fields
Spores can survive dry areas until moisture is sufficient for them to germinate
Reproduces with spores
PHYLUM ACRASIOMYCOTA
Common in soil where they feed on bacteria and yeasts
Pseudoplasmodium
Reproduces with spores