BIO320 / MAC - OGOS 2021

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA (UiTM)

Branch SABAH Campus KOTA KINABALU

BIO 320
INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL
DIVERSITY
Workbook : Laboratory BIO320

Student Name MIRZA KARMILA BT LAZIS@ALIZAS

Student ID 2019428458
Group BIO3204G2
H/P Number 0133247561
Email Address Mrza020@gmail.com
Lecturer Name SIR ANSIR SALIM

FOR LECTURER
USE ONLY
Session Mark
Lab 1 /10
Lab 2 /20
Lab 3 /20
Lab 4 /20
Lab 5 /30
Total /100

Faculty of Applied Sciences, UiTM

 Laboratory Session 2 (Protista)

1. What are the three informal groups of Protista? Describe their general characteristics
and give two examples from each group. (9 Marks)

Group of General Characteristics Example

Protista
1. Animal-like 1. Heterotrophs (they cannot 1. Ciliates
Protist manufacture their own food)
2. Sarcodines
2. Unicellular

3. Live in moist environment

2.Plant-like 1. found in water 1.Euglena

2. contain chlorophyl that enable them 2.Dinoflagellates

to carry out photosynthesis

3. unicellular and multicellular algae

3. Fungus-like 1. Heterotrophs 1. Slime Molds

2. reproduce using spores 2. Water molds

3. Feed on decaying organism

3. Briefly describe how amoeba obtain their foods? (2 marks)

- Amoeba taken their foods by process that is called endocytosis where they will engulf their
food from the environment with the help of their pseudopodia and later will form a vacuole
around their food. They also using their mouth like projection or absorbing nutrients from
their food.

4. What are the differences between cilia and flagella? (3 marks)

1. Cilia are short, hair-like structures meanwhile flagella are long, whip-like structures.
2. Cilia are only found in eukaryotic cells meanwhile flagella are found in both prokaryotic and
eukaryotic cells.
3. Cilia occur throughout the cell meanwhile flagella occur at one end of a cell.
5. By using specific example, discuss the economic importance of algae. (3

Economic importance
1. Algae as food. Fresh water and marine algae are rich in proteins, carbohydrates, oils,
vitamin A,B,C and E and minerals and they have been utilized as a direct source of food.
For example, Laminaria species is the important edible seaweed.
2. Algae in medicine. For example, many algae such as chlorella, Polysiphonia, Laminaria
synthesis antibiotic substances.
3. Algae as fertilizer. For example, blue green algae that is also known as cynobacteria are
often used as biofertilizer to ensure oil fertility and plant growth.

6. Complete the life cycle of plasmodial slime molds. (3 marks)

A B
a b

F C
E

dD

a. Zygote (2n)
b. Feeding plasmodium
c. Young sporangium
d. Spore
e. Amoeboid cell
f. Flagellated cell
f c
e