Name:_________________________________ Date:________________________________ Period:_____
Lesson 11 – Microorganism (Protists) Lab
Directions: Draw, measure and label each specimen on high power. You may use pages 133 and 134 in
your OMM book to assist you in labeling.
Paramecium
Look at a prepared slide of
a paramecium
Cell
membrane
Label: cell membrane,
cilia
Cilia
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Volvox
Flagella
Look at a prepared slide of
a Volvox
Daughter colony
Label: Flagella, adult colony,
daughter colony
Adult colony
NOTE: Paired Flagella
throughout the adult colony edges
(Biflagellate)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Amoeba
Look at the prepared slide of
an amoeba
Cell membrane
Pseudopod
Label: cell membrane, pseudopod
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Name:_________________________________ Date:________________________________ Period:_____
Euglena
Cell membrane
Look at the prepared slide of
an Euglena
Label: Flagella
Cell membrane
Chloroplasts
Chloroplasts
Flagella
NOTE: One single
flagella
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Name:_________________________________ Date:________________________________ Period:_____
Directions: Look at the live specimen and fill out the data table.
**Animal like features include irregular shape, ability to move freely
**Plant-like features include cell wall, regular defined shape, green color (make own energy)
Protist
Animal-like Features
Amoeba
Paramecium
Volvox
Euglena
Plant-like Features
Structure/Method of
Movement
Moves freely, irregular
shape,
eats, no cell wall
(some have chlorophyll)
Cytoplasm moves into the
pseudopod
Moves freely,
Eats, no cell wall
Regular shape
cilia
Moves freely
Regular shape, chlorophyll
Flagella (spins)
Moves freely, eats, no cell
wall, irregular shape, eyespot
(“sees” light and dark)
chlorophyll
Flagellum whips
NOTE: Three types of protists; amoeboids, ciliates, flagellates
1. Why do you think these protists are not classified as animals or plants? (not part of the animal or plant
kingdom)
Because they are;
-unicellular (single celled)
-have plant characteristics
-have animal characteristics