1. Kingdom Protista
Mrs. Leary

2. Facts Eukaryotes – nucleus! Unicellular or simple multicellular
Usually feed on bacteria
Take food in by endocytosis
Some make their own through photosynthesis
Food and wastes exchanged through cell membrane

3. Facts Gas exchange through cell membrane
Movement by flagella, cilia, or pseudopodia
Very simple muscular system to make them move (contractile fibers)
No circulatory system- nutrients and wastes get moved through cytoplasmic streaming

4. Facts No Skeletal or nervous systems
Cell membrane or cell wall covers protists
Reproduction both sexual and asexual
Asexual – binary fission
Sexual - conjugation

5. Diseases caused by protists
Some cause disease
Giardia – causes diarrhea
plasmodium – malaria (mosquitoes)
trypanosoma – African sleeping sickness (tsetse fly)
amoebic dysentery – diarrhea

6. Examples Protozoans: animal-like Algae: plant-like
Myxomycota (slime molds)- fungus-like
Seaweed
Paramecium
Amoeba
Euglena
Slime molds
Dinoflagellates