General Characteristics

Eukaryotic
Unicellular
Some may live in
colonies
May be Autotrophic
or Heterotrophic or
Both
Some are motile

Classified into Three Main Groups

Animal-like (Protozoa)
heterotrophs capable of
locomotion
Plant-like (Algae)
photosynthetic autotrophs
Fungus-like (Slime Mold)
decomposers that reproduce
by spores
Some protists may exhibit
both animal-like & plant-like
characteristics

Fungi-like Protists
Myxomycota

Acrasiomycota
Oomycota

Myxomycota

grow as a single, spreading mass or plasmodium

live as decomposer
when the environment becomes unfavorable (no food or
water), they form stalks and spore-producing capsules
haploid spores germinate into amoeboid or flagellated cells
these cells fuse to form a new diploid plasmodium

Acrasiomycota

have both fungus and protist characteristics

spores germinate into amoebas that feed on bacteria
amoebas to aggregate into one unit
the crowd of amoebas form a slug that migrates
cells from the slug form a stalk with a capsule, which
makes spores
spores are released, and the cycle repeats

Oomycota

are parasitic and saprophytic

form filaments, or hyphae
(like fungi)
secrete enzymes into
surroundings & absorb
nutrients (like fungi)
filaments lack septa or cross
walls resulting in many
nuclei in a cell, they are
coenocytic
have cell walls made of
cellulose, not chitin

Animal-like Protists
classified by method of
movement

Ciliates (Infusoria)

Sporozoa

Rhizopoda (Sarcodina)
Flagellata (Mastigophora)

Rhizopoda
STRUCTURE

Example : Amoeba

The Amoeba in 3D

REPRODUCTION

Ciliates
Paramaecium

Vorticella

use cilia for movement

REPRODUCTION

Transverse Fission

Conjugation

Flagellata

have flagella

Trypanosoma sp.

Tsetse Fly

Kissing bug

Vector of Trypanosoma

Sporozoa

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Ex : Plasmodium

Life Cycle

Plasmodium Life Cycle

Animal-Like Protist or Plant-Like Protist?

Post Test

Question

Answer

I have flagel ()
The vector of Trypanosoma ()
Sexual reproduction in Paramaecium ()
The protist can do photosynthetic ()
The protist has animal and plant
characteristic()
6. Ciliates has a trumpt-like structure ()
7. The protist has pseudopodia as locomotion tools
()
8. The protist without locomotion tools ()
9. The part of Paramecium has function for
osmoregulation ()
10.It called water mold ()

Euglena
Tsetse fly
Vorticella
Conjugation
Sporozoa
Stentor
Oomycota
Flagellata
Contractile
vacuole
Food vacuole
Mixomycota
Sarcodina
Algae
Mosquito

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