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Protist lab – prepared slides
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PLANT – LIKE PROTISTS
I. Euglena – MICROSCOPE
a. Draw a picture of the Euglena on total magnification of 100x and answer the questions. Use your book
pages 73-76 to help you answer the questions.
1. True or False: Plant-like protists are similar to plants in that they are autotrophs.
2.
How do the euglena move? _______________________________________
3. Why would it be important for euglena to find light?
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II. Euglena – MICROVIEWER (Life in a Pond – set 110 slide 2)
a. Look at slide 2 in the microviewer.
b. Read the description of the Euglena in the booklet.
c. Draw a picture of the Euglena in the circle below. Answer the questions.
1. What are the small green bits of matter in the Euglena’s body called?
_____________
2. What does the green material help the euglena manufacture (make)?
______________
3. TRUE or FALSE The euglena is like a plant because it is an autotroph, but it is
also like an animal because it is a heterotroph.
III. Volvox – Microscope
a. Draw a picture of the Volvox on total magnification of 100x and answer the questions. Use your book
pages 73-76 to help you answer the questions.
1. Define: Autotroph ____________________________________________________________________
2. How do plant-like protists fit into the food chain? (Who eats who?)
____________________________________________________________________
3. What is produced as a byproduct from Photosynthesis (food making process)?
____________________________________________________________________
IV. Volvox – Microviewer (Pond Life set #12, slide 5)
a. Look at slide 5 in the Pond Life microviewer slide set.
b. Read the description of the Volvox in the booklet (slide 5)
c. Draw a picture of the volvox below and answer the questions.
1. TRUE or FALSE
The volvox is a hollow ball made up of hundreds of cells.
2.TRUE or FALSE
When the original volvox fills up with daughter cells it will burst
open releasing the new volvox cells.
ANIMAL – LIKE PROTISTS
V. Amoeba - Microscope
Draw a picture of Amoeba on total magnification 100x and answer the questions. Use your book pages 63-65 to help
you answer the questions.
1. How do amoebas move? What does this term mean in Greek?
__________________________________
2. What does this foot-like extension do for the amoeba?
___________________________________________
3. How do water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide get into the amoeba?
____________________________________________
VI. Amoeba – Microviewer (Pond Life set #12, slide 3)
a. Look at slide 3 in the microviewer
b. Read the description of the Amoeba in the booklet (slide 3)
c. Draw a picture of the Amoeba and answer the questions
1. How does the amoeba eat?
________________________________________________________________________
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VII.
Paramecium - Microscope
Draw a picture of the paramecium on total magnification of 100x and answer the questions. Use your book pages 66 67 to help you answer the questions.
1. True or False: Protists have a nucleus.
2. What do the paramecium use to eat and move? _______________________
VIII.
Paramecium – Microviewer (How a one-celled animal divides, set #104, slides 1, 2, 3)
a. Look at slides 1, 2, 3 in the microviewer
b. Read the description of the Paramecium in slides 1, 2, 3
c. Answer the questions below
1. Look at slide 1 in the microviewer. Do all of the paramecium have exactly the same shape? __________ Do they
all seem to be about the same shape? _________
2. Look at slide 2 in the microviewer. What are the storage containers called that hold food and water for the
paramecium? (you may need your notes for this organelle name) _________________________
3. Look at slide 3 in the microviewer. How does this organism move? _____________________
4. Read section 4 in the booklet. How does this animal reproduce?
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If you have not completed the plant-like protists please move to the next lab station to complete
this section.
Lab finished?
CONGRATULATIONS!
You are now ready to look at live protists under the microscope.