Notes guide for Kingdom Protista
Name: ________________
Period: _________________
What is a protist?
• _______________- cells contain a nucleus
•____________- celled organisms
• Can _____________ like animals and _______________ to changes in the
environment
• Can be ____________________; which means…to make their own food
• Or protists can be _________________, which means they cannot make own food- eat
--------------------------------------Animal-like protists
1. Sarcodines
• ________________ – false foot
• Move with their pseudopods (_________ of their cell
membrane and cytoplasm)
• Example = _______________
Draw/label Amoeba (Fig 3-6)
2. Ciliates
• Move with small _______ - _________ projections
• Projections are known as _________
• Example = ____________________
Draw/label Paramecium (Fig 3-9)
• How can you contract Balartidium coli?
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3. Flagellates (Zooflagellates)
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_______________ – a tail-like extension
Used to _____________
Example = ________________
Carried in the Tse Tse fly – causes African Sleeping
Sickness (________________)
Draw/label zooflagellate (Fig 3-12)
4. Sporozoans
• All are ____________________; Example = _________________
Malaria (parasitic disease may result in anemia)
• Caused by an ____________ _______________ biting a human.
• Infected mosquito injects saliva into human (including ______ spores)
• _______________ go to liver in human and reproduce
• Move about in human ________________ blood cells
--------------------------3 Plant-like protists
(1) Euglena
• Move with a _______________
• ____________ – usually green in color;
• What does that mean? _________________
Draw/label Euglena (Fig 3-18)
(2) Diatoms
• ____________-dwelling organisms
• Enclosed in a two part glassy _________
• Can be used in car polish, tooth paste and form part
of the Earth’s crust
Draw/label Diatom(Fig 3-19)
(3) Dinoflagellates
• Can produce sparkles in ___________ _____________
• Contain cell _______________ that help propel them
through water
• If reproduce too quickly can cause Red Tide, ___________
fish
Draw/ label Dinoflagellate (Fig 3-21)
Reproduction of plant-like protists
• Most reproduce through ______________ – splitting into _________ parts.