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Types of Protists Notes

This document describes three main types of protists: plant-like protists, animal-like protists, and fungus-like protists. Plant-like protists include euglenoids, dinoflagellates, diatoms, and various algae which are mostly photosynthetic. Animal-like protists, also called protozoans, are heterotrophic and unicellular, and are classified by their means of movement. Fungus-like protists have cell walls and reproduce via spores, and include water molds and slime molds.

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Types of Protists Notes

This document describes three main types of protists: plant-like protists, animal-like protists, and fungus-like protists. Plant-like protists include euglenoids, dinoflagellates, diatoms, and various algae which are mostly photosynthetic. Animal-like protists, also called protozoans, are heterotrophic and unicellular, and are classified by their means of movement. Fungus-like protists have cell walls and reproduce via spores, and include water molds and slime molds.

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Types

of
Protists
Meeting the Misfits
Three Types

• Plant-like Protists
• Animal-like Protists
• Fungus-like Protists
Plant-Like Protists
• Producers
• Live in soil, bark, fresh water or salt water
• Produce oxygen (important job!)
• Examples:
– Euglenoids
– Dinoflagellates
– Diatoms
– Algae (green, red & brown)
Euglenoids
• Producers when sunny
• Heterotrophs when dark
• Unicellular
• Found mostly in fresh water
• Some have a flagella
Euglena Diagram
Dinoflagellates
• Unicellular
• Covered by stiff plates
• Have two flagella
• May glow in the dark
• Found in the ocean
Diatoms
• Unicellular
• Glass-like cell walls
• Used in toothpastes, scouring products
and as filters
Green Algae
• Green due to chlorophyll
• Mostly unicellular but some form
colonies and a few are multicellular
• Live in fresh water, salt water, and a few
on land
• Ex: Volvox
Red Algae

• Multicellular
• Commonly called sea weed
• Live in deep salt water
• Used in ice cream and hair conditioner
• Eaten in some Asian cultures
Brown Algae

• Multicellular
• Commonly called sea weed
• Have large “leaves” called blades
• Have sacs called air bladders
• Have “roots” called holdfast
• Live in salt water
• Used in pudding & salad dressing
Animal-Like Protists
• Called “Protozoans” (before animals)
• Heterotrophs
• All are unicellular
• Categorized by how they move:
– With Pseudopods
– With Cilia (ciliates)
– With Flagella (zooflagellates)
– Others (Parasites)
Protists with Pseudopods
• Pseudopod = “fake foot”
• Move by extending their pseudopods
and pulling the rest of their bodies
forward
• Pseudopods also used
to trap food
• Example: Amoeba
Amoeba Diagram
Protist Mini Quiz #3
1. What are the three groups of protists?
2. Name two of the four types of green
protists
3. What does “protozoan” mean?
4. How are animal-like protists classified?
5. List one thing that a pseudopod is used
for.
Protists with Cilia
• Cilia - tiny hair-like structures
• Move by beating tiny cilia that act like oars
• Cilia also help capture food
• Example: paramecium
Paramecium Diagram

Gullet
Protists with Flagella
• Flagella - whip-like tail
• Move by beating their long flagella
• Can have one or more flagella
• Most flagellates live in a host;
can be helpful or harmful
• Example: Giardia
Other Animal-like Protists
• Characterized by the way they live…
parasites!
• Most cause diseases
• Example: Plasmodium Vivax (causes
malaria)
Fungus-Like Protists
• Heterotrophs
• Have cell walls (like a plant cell)
• Reproduce by forming spores (like
fungus)
• Able to move at some point in their life
• Examples:
– Water Molds
– Slime Molds
Water Molds

• Live in water or moist environments


• Look like tiny threads with a fuzzy
covering
• Attack food: potatoes, cabbage, corn
• Responsible for Irish Potato Famine
Slime Molds

• Live in moist soil and on decaying


plants and trees
• Very colorful
• Move by forming pseudopods
• Feed on bacteria and other
microorganisms (tiny living things)

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