KINGDOM PROTISTA What are protist Large diverse group

KINGDOM PROTISTA

What are protist? • Large, diverse group of organisms, including the plant-like protists (algae), fungi-like protists, and the animal-like protists (protozoans). • “Dumping site of hard t classify organisms”

PROTOZOANS-Animal like Protist • mostly single-celled eukaryotic organism that feed heterotrophically and exhibit diverse mechanisms of mobility.

PHYLUM ZOOMASTAGINA • single-celled organisms with one or more whip-like flagella which they use to assist them in moving. • “Zooflagellates” Trypanosoma gambiense

PHYLUM SARCODINA • Move by temporary projections called pseudopods.

PHYLUM CILIOPHORA • Protist with cilia-”Hair-like projections” Paramecium

PHYLUM SPOROZOA • Not free-living and are parasytic. • They produce spores. “Malaria” -Plasmodium sp.

PHYLUM EUGLENOPHYTA • Plant-like protists that have two flagella but have no cell wall.

PHYLUM PYRROPHYTA • Dinoflagellates-has two flagella often wrapped around the organisms circumference. Redtide

PHYLUM CHRYSOPHYTA • Includes the yellow green algae and the golden brown algae. Golden-brown Algae Yellow Green Algae

GREEN ALGAE IN YELLOW SEA IN CHINA

PHYLUM BACILLARIOPHYTA • Includes diatoms, one of the most abundant organisms on earth. Dennis Kunkel

FUNGUS LIKE PROTIST • Lack chlorophyll and absorb food through their cell walls.

PHYLUM ACRASIOMYCOTA • It include slime molds

PHYLUM MYXOMYCOTA • Acellular slime molds.

PHYLUM OOMYCOTA • Water molds