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RESTY SAMOSA
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BULSU MALOLOS CAMPUS
GENERAL
CHARACTERISTICS OF
PROTISTS
Protists are unicellular, colonial, and multicellular
organisms.
The cells of protists are eukaryotic with a membrane –
bound nucleus and other organelles.
Reproduce asexually or sexually by conjugation
Exhibit all three modes of nutrition
Photosynthesis
Ingestion
Absorption
Some protists have photosynthetic organelles called
chloroplasts
Photosynthetic protists are abundant in oceans, lakes, and
ponds
•Free floating
•Mutually beneficial associations with other organisms:
solar energy captured by the protist is used by host, which
shelters and protects the protist
Photosynthetic protists are collectively known as algae
Single-celled, non-photosynthetic protists are
collectively known as protozoa
PROTOZOANS
Subkingdom Mastigobionta
Sarcodina)
Move and engulf their prey by means pseudopods.
Pseudopods forms when the cytoplasm streams forward in
a particular direction.
Some may cause disease such as Entamoeba histolytica, a
parasite in human intestine that causes amoebic dysentery.
Phylum Apicomplexa
(Sporozoans)
Non motile parasites
contain a complex of organelles used to invade host cells or
tissues
Exhibits complicated life cycle involving sexual and asexual
phases, often with two or more hosts, such as Plasmodium
vivax that cause malaria, hosts are female Anopheles
mosquito and humans.
Phylum Zoomastigophora
(Zooflagellates)
Move by means of flagella
Covered by a pellicle that is often reinforced by underlying
microtubules.
Reproduce by traverse binary fission
Mostly are involved in symbiotic relationship that may cause human
diseases, such as cysts of Giardia Lambia transmitted through
contaminated water and attached to intestinal wall cause severe
diarrhea, Trichomonas vaginalis infects the vagina and urethra of
women and even prostate, seminal vesicle and urethra of men, it also
agents of African sleeping sickness, Trypanosomes enters the
bloodstream with the bite of tsetse fly, and invade the brain and
spinal cord
Phylum Foraminifera
(forams)
Secretes many – chambered test with pores through which
cytoplasmic projections extend to move and obtain food.
Foraminiferans produce elaborate calcium carbonate shells with holes
• Deposits of fossilized foraminiferans form chalk
Contain unicellular algal endosymbionts that provide food by
photosynthesis.
Foraminiferans species live on the ocean floor, but others are part of
the plankton.
Phylum Actinopoda
(radiolarians)
Are mostly marine plankton that obtain food by means of
axopods, slender cytoplasmic projections that extend
through pores in their shells.
Radiolarians are actinopods with glassy shells.
a radiolarians, have a membrane or capsule divides the cells
into two biochemically distinct zone, one with the nucleus and
the other with so many digestive vacuoles that the cells looks
frothy.
Algae
Subkingdom Phycobionta
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