Protists and Fungi Diversity Flashcards
This Kingdom prefers aquatic and moist environments. This has eukaryotes, many unicellular, numerous colonial and multicellular. They can reproduce asexually though some undergo sexual.
Protista
The kingdom Protista is classified into 3, what are they?
Animal-like, Plant-like, Fungus-like
This protists are called protozoa that are all unicellular, heterotrophic and usually feed by ingestion.
Animal-like Protists
This kind of protozoa uses cilia for feeding and locomotion (ex. Paramecium)
Ciliates
They use pseudopods (“false feet”) for feeding (ex. amoebas)
Sarcodina / Sarcodine
This cause amoebic dysentery
Entamoeba histolytica
They move by beating their long flagella (ex. Giardia lamblia & trichonympha)
Zooflagellates
They are unicellular protists that are usually parasites and produces spores at some point. They don’t possess locomotor organelles in their last stage.
Sporozoans
This kind of Protists are capable to photosynthesize that are usually unicellular with tissues.
Plant-like (Algae)
These plant-like protists are unicellular that has a unique glass-like wall made of silicon dioxide to make them look like a box w/ a lid.
Diatoms
They have a cell protected by a thick cellulose plates that look likes helmets.
Dinoflagellates
They exhibit behavior of both plants and animals. It is photosynthetic but has no cell wall.
Euglenoid
They are the closest relatives of plants in terms of evolution.
Green Algae
This algae is multicellular and has a photosynthetic pigment phycoerythrin. They can be found in the
deeper areas of the sea.
Red Algae
Its color is due to pigments called carotenoids. They can either be unicellular or colonial and are photosynthetic although some are mixotrophic.
Golden Algae
Mixotrophs can absorb dissolved organic compounds including living cells by what?
Phagocytosis
They are multicellular
that’re commonly called as kelps.
Brown Algae
This kind of protists are heterotrophic and have cell walls. They are either saprophytes (recycle nutrients) or parasites.
Fungus-like Protists
they live as
a large composite mass that has multiple nuclei in a
single cytoplasm. They live in moist soil &
on decaying plants and trees.
Plasmodial slime molds
They exist as individual cells / an aggregate of cells. Their cells dorm a slug-like aggregate that functions as a unit, when food is depleted.
Cellular slime molds
They are groups of filamentous protists that physically resembles a fungi. They prefer living in a high humidity and running surface of water.
Water molds
This Kingdom are eukaryotic with cell walls made of chitin and can either be unicellular or multicellular (filamentous).
Kingdom Fungi
WHAT’S INCORRECT IN THIS STATEMENT?
The Kingdom Fungi are autotrophic and can reproduce sexually and asexually
Fungus are Heterotrophic
What are unicellular fungi called?
Yeasts (ex. Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
