KINGDOM PROTISTA

What are protist?

• Large, diverse group of organisms, including the plant-like protists (algae), fungi-like protists, and the animal-like protists (protozoans). 

• “Dumping site of hard t classify organisms”

PROTOZOANS-Animal like Protist

• mostly single-celled eukaryotic organism that feed heterotrophically and exhibit diverse mechanisms of mobility.

PHYLUM ZOOMASTAGINA

• single-celled organisms with one or more whip-like flagella which they use to assist them in moving.

• “Zooflagellates”

Trypanosoma gambiense

PHYLUM SARCODINA

•Move by temporary projections called pseudopods.

PHYLUM CILIOPHORA

• Protist with cilia-”Hair-like projections”

Paramecium

PHYLUM SPOROZOA

• Not free-living and are parasytic.

• They produce spores.

“Malaria” -Plasmodium sp.

PHYLUM EUGLENOPHYTA

• Plant-like protists that have two flagella but have no cell wall.

PHYLUM PYRROPHYTA

• Dinoflagellates-has two flagella often wrapped around the organisms circumference.

Redtide

PHYLUM CHRYSOPHYTA

• Includes the yellow green algae and the golden brown algae.

Yellow Green AlgaeGolden-brown Algae

GREEN ALGAE IN YELLOW SEA IN CHINA

PHYLUM BACILLARIOPHYTA

• Includes diatoms, one of the most abundant organisms on earth.

Dennis Kunkel

FUNGUS LIKE PROTIST

• Lack chlorophyll and absorb food through their cell walls.

PHYLUM ACRASIOMYCOTA

• It include slime molds

PHYLUM MYXOMYCOTA

• Acellular slime molds.

PHYLUM OOMYCOTA

• Water molds