Protists - Explore Biology
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Protists
Simply Eukaryotes
Domain
Bacteria
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Domain
Archaebacteria
Domain
Eukaryotes
2006-2007
Common ancestor
General characteristics
Classification criteria
eukaryotes
not animal, plant or fungi
That’s more of
what they’re not
& not
what they are!
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Protist Diversity
A great variety in ways of life
one-celled to many-celled
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asexual to sexual reproduction
pathogens to beneficial
sessile to mobile
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Mobility
How Protists move
flagellum
cilia
pseudopod
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Protist Diversity
Animal-like Protists
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Amoeba
Paramecium
Stentor
Amoeba ingesting a Paramecium
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Paramecium with food
vacuoles stained red
Protist Diversity
Plant-like Protists
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Euglena
algae
diatoms
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Protist Diversity
Parasitic & pathogen Protists
malaria
Giardia
trypanosomes
Plasmodium
Giardia
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Trypanosoma
Protist Diversity
Beneficial & necessary Protists
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small algae + diatoms
much of the world’s photosynthesis
produces ~90% of atmospheric oxygen
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heterotroph protists
key ecological role at base of
marine food web
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Mmmmmm!
Keeps me goin’!
Any
Questions??
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Any Questions??
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Why is a huge
single-celled
creature not
possible?
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Great Diversity
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Problems with Protist Classification
Too Diverse!
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Theory of Endosymbiosis
internal
membrane
system
aerobic
bacterium
Eukaryotic cell with
mitochondrion
Ancestral eukaryotic cell
chloroplast
mitochondrion
photosynthetic
bacterium
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Biologycell with chloroplasts
Eukaryotic
Paramecium &
symbiont Chlorella