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Protists
Simple Eukaryotes
Domain
Bacteria
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Domain
Archaebacteria
Domain
Eukaryotes
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Common ancestor
General characteristics
 Classification criteria
eukaryotes
 not animal, plant or fungi

That’s more of
what they’re not
& not
what they are!
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Protist Diversity
 A great variety in ways of life
one-celled to many-celled
 autotrophs (photosynthesis) to
heterotrophs (have to eat)
 asexual to sexual reproduction
 pathogens to beneficial
 sessile to mobile
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Mobility
 How Protists move
flagellum
 cilia
 pseudopod
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Protist Diversity
 Animal-like Protists

heterotrophs, predators
 Amoeba
 Paramecium
 Stentor
Amoeba ingesting a Paramecium
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Paramecium with food
vacuoles stained red
Protist Diversity
 Plant-like Protists

autotrophs, photosynthesis
 Euglena
 algae
 diatoms
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Protist Diversity
 Parasitic & pathogen Protists
malaria
 Giardia
 trypanosomes

Plasmodium
Giardia
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Trypanosoma
Protist Diversity
 Beneficial & necessary Protists

phytoplankton
 small algae + diatoms
 much of the world’s photosynthesis
 produces ~90% of atmospheric oxygen

zooplankton
 heterotroph protists
 key ecological role at base of
marine food web
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Mmmmmm!
Keeps me goin’!
Any
Questions??
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