Protists: An Overview of Different Types and Their Characteristics, Study notes of Biology

Download Protists: An Overview of Different Types and Their Characteristics and more Study notes Biology in PDF only on Docsity! Protists Live and Prepared: Euglena - photoautotrophic and chemoheterotrophs, has a flagella Paramecium – ciliated protist, has contractile vacuole, oral groove, micronuclei, Macronucleus, chemoheterotrophs Amoeba – pseudopodia for movement, chemoheterotrophs Voticella – can attach to a substrate using its stalk, can also ”swim” using cilia or stalk, chemoheterotrophs Physarum – slime mold, moves by amoeboid movement in plasmodium stage, chemoheterotrophs Prepared only: Volvox – single or multicellular, photosynthetic green algae, with specialized reproductive cells and other cells have flagella, photoautotrophic Trypanosoma lewisi in blood chemoheterotrophs, parasitic, causes African sleeping sickness transmitted by tsetse fly, flagella for movement Diatoms - Cell wall made of two overlapping shells made of silica, contain photosynthetic pigments, some species are toxic and have led to shellfish poisoning, when the organisms die, the shell remains, making diatomaceous earth Docsity.com