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What environement do protists live in? - ANSWER ✔✔ Mainly live in aquatic environments
What are the 5 functions of Protists? - ANSWER ✔✔ 1. Help maintain ecological balance
2. Food source
3. Supply oxygen
4. Some are economically important
5. Some cause disease
Are protists unicellular or multicellular? - ANSWER ✔✔ Most unicellular
What are the three types of locomotion that protist use? - ANSWER ✔✔ Pseudopodia-false feet
Flagella
Cilia
some are nonmotile
What are two ways protists obtain nutrition? - ANSWER ✔✔ Autotrophic
Heterotrophic
sometimes both
Autotrophic - ANSWER ✔✔ photosynthetic
ex: algae
Heterotrophic - ANSWER ✔✔ obtain energy/ nutrition from environment
What three interactions do protist have with there environment? - ANSWER ✔✔ Mutialism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Mutualism - ANSWER ✔✔ Both benefit
Commensalism - ANSWER ✔✔ One benefits and the other is unaffected
Parasitism - ANSWER ✔✔ One lives on or in the other
How to protists reproduce - ANSWER ✔✔ Sexually and asexually
some reproduce only asexually
What two groups are the protista kingdom split up into? - ANSWER ✔✔ Monophyletic
, Paraphyletic
Monophyletic - ANSWER ✔✔ evolved from common ancestor
Paraphyletic - ANSWER ✔✔ contains some, but not all of the descendants of a common
ancestor
Four characteristics of Zoo flagellates - ANSWER ✔✔ 1. unicellular heterotrophs with spherical
or elogated bodies
2. Move Rapidly(flagella)
3. Ingest Food (mouth or oral groove)
4.Polyphyletic (seperated into several monophyletic groups)
What two groups are zooflagellates split up into - ANSWER ✔✔ Excavates
Discicristates
What are Excavates? - ANSWER ✔✔ Diplomonads and other zooflagellates
What are Discicristates? - ANSWER ✔✔ Euglenoids and other zooflagellates
What is the super phylum of the sub phylum Diplmonad? - ANSWER ✔✔ Zooflagellate
Are diplomonads excavates or discicristates - ANSWER ✔✔ excavates
What are the characteristics of diplomonads? (2) - ANSWER ✔✔ 1.Live in oxygen free
environments
2. Obtain energy by anarobic pathway of glycolsis
What are structural characteristics of diplomonads? (4) - ANSWER ✔✔ 1. one or two nuclei
2. no functional mitochondria
3. no golgi complex
4.up to eight flagella
What is an example of a diplomonads (excavate) - ANSWER ✔✔ Giardia
What is an example of a zooflagellate (excavate) - ANSWER ✔✔ Trichonympha
Where can you find Trichonympha and what does it feed off of? - ANSWER ✔✔ a. Live in the
gut of termintes and wood-eating roaches
b.Rely on endosymbiotic bacteria to digest wood
What is the subphylum of zooflagellates that are known as discicristates - ANSWER ✔✔
Euglenoids
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What environement do protists live in? - ANSWER ✔✔ Mainly live in aquatic environments
What are the 5 functions of Protists? - ANSWER ✔✔ 1. Help maintain ecological balance
2. Food source
3. Supply oxygen
4. Some are economically important
5. Some cause disease
Are protists unicellular or multicellular? - ANSWER ✔✔ Most unicellular
What are the three types of locomotion that protist use? - ANSWER ✔✔ Pseudopodia-false feet
Flagella
Cilia
some are nonmotile
What are two ways protists obtain nutrition? - ANSWER ✔✔ Autotrophic
Heterotrophic
sometimes both
Autotrophic - ANSWER ✔✔ photosynthetic
ex: algae
Heterotrophic - ANSWER ✔✔ obtain energy/ nutrition from environment
What three interactions do protist have with there environment? - ANSWER ✔✔ Mutialism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Mutualism - ANSWER ✔✔ Both benefit
Commensalism - ANSWER ✔✔ One benefits and the other is unaffected
Parasitism - ANSWER ✔✔ One lives on or in the other
How to protists reproduce - ANSWER ✔✔ Sexually and asexually
some reproduce only asexually
What two groups are the protista kingdom split up into? - ANSWER ✔✔ Monophyletic
, Paraphyletic
Monophyletic - ANSWER ✔✔ evolved from common ancestor
Paraphyletic - ANSWER ✔✔ contains some, but not all of the descendants of a common
ancestor
Four characteristics of Zoo flagellates - ANSWER ✔✔ 1. unicellular heterotrophs with spherical
or elogated bodies
2. Move Rapidly(flagella)
3. Ingest Food (mouth or oral groove)
4.Polyphyletic (seperated into several monophyletic groups)
What two groups are zooflagellates split up into - ANSWER ✔✔ Excavates
Discicristates
What are Excavates? - ANSWER ✔✔ Diplomonads and other zooflagellates
What are Discicristates? - ANSWER ✔✔ Euglenoids and other zooflagellates
What is the super phylum of the sub phylum Diplmonad? - ANSWER ✔✔ Zooflagellate
Are diplomonads excavates or discicristates - ANSWER ✔✔ excavates
What are the characteristics of diplomonads? (2) - ANSWER ✔✔ 1.Live in oxygen free
environments
2. Obtain energy by anarobic pathway of glycolsis
What are structural characteristics of diplomonads? (4) - ANSWER ✔✔ 1. one or two nuclei
2. no functional mitochondria
3. no golgi complex
4.up to eight flagella
What is an example of a diplomonads (excavate) - ANSWER ✔✔ Giardia
What is an example of a zooflagellate (excavate) - ANSWER ✔✔ Trichonympha
Where can you find Trichonympha and what does it feed off of? - ANSWER ✔✔ a. Live in the
gut of termintes and wood-eating roaches
b.Rely on endosymbiotic bacteria to digest wood
What is the subphylum of zooflagellates that are known as discicristates - ANSWER ✔✔
Euglenoids
