Protista Review – Active Participation
Clade
Excavata
Unique
Characteristics
Excavated feeding
groove
Many flagella
SAR Clade:
Stramenopiles:
Chlorophyll
Present?
Structure?
Locomotion?
Unicellular
Possess flagella
Examples
1. Diplomonads
- Giardia
2. Parabasalids
- Trichomonas
3. Euglenozoa
- Euglena
1. Golden-brown Algae
2. Diatoms
Human
Uses/Diseases/Issues
Diatomaceous earth;
filtration
3. Brown Algae
Kelp – food products
1. Dinoflagellates
2. Apicomplexans
3. Ciliates
SAR Clade:
Alveolates
SAR Clade:
Rhizarians
1. Forams
2. Cercozoans
3. Radiolarians
Agar, dulse, Irish moss
Archaeplastids:
Red Algae
Clade
Archaeplastids:
Chlorophytes
Unique
Characteristics
Chlorophyll
Present?
Structure?
Locomotion?
Examples
1. Unicellular algae
- Chlamydomonous
2. Colonial algae
- Volvox, Gonium
3. Filamentous algae
- Spyrogyra, Ulothrix
4. Multicellular algae
- Ulva
Closer to mosses than
algae?
Closest relative of
land plants
Archeaplastids:
Charophytes
Unikonta:
Slime Molds
1. Amoeba proteus
Unikonta:
Tubulinids
Human Uses/Issues
Clade
Unique
Characteristics
Chlorophyll
Present?
Structure?
Locomotion?
Examples
Human Uses/Issues
Unikonta:
Entamoebas
Closest relative to
Fungi
Unikonta:
Nucleariids
Closest relative to
Sponges/Animals
Unikonta:
Choanoflagellates