Protista

Protista 101

100

Today's protists are found in Domain ______, Kingdom _______.

What is Eukarya/Protista?

200

________ are carbohydrate food reserves found in Euglena.

What are paramylon bodies?

300

__________ are proteinaceous structures associated with starch synthesis.

What are pyrenoids?

400

An ________ grows on plants without harming them.

What is an epiphyte?

500

The freshwater green algae that is thought to be an indirect ancestor of today's land plants.

What is Coleochaete?

Kingdom Protista - Which phylum is it?

100

This phylum includes protists that produce the pigment xanthophyll, can have cellulose armor plates, and can fire tiny projectiles when bothered.

What is Dinophyta?

200

This phylum is found in warm, deep water and is reddish in color.

What is Rhodophyta?

300

This phylum includes protists that can be filamentous, colonial, or even leaflike, have chlorophylls a and b, and most can reproduce sexually or asexually. 

What is Chlorophyta?

400

This phylum includes protists that lack a cell wall but instead have an outer pellicle, paramylon bodies for food storage, and a flagellum for movement.

What is Euglenophyta?

500

This phylum includes many of the "colorful" algae produced by pigments such as fucoxanthin.

What is Chromophyta?

Phylum Chlorophyta - Which genus is it?

100

This genus of colonial green algae resembles a hollow ball that breaks apart to release daughter colonies that are formed inside either sexually or asexually.

What is Volvox?

200

This genus of filamentous protists has ribbon-shaped chloroplasts and forms conjugation tubes when reproducing sexually.

What is Spirogyra?

300

This genus of filamentous protists has holdfasts and pyrenoids and its name means "woolly hair."

What is Ulothrix?

400

This genus of protists has a pair of whiplike flagella, contractile vacuoles, a single cup-shaped chloroplast, one or two pyrenoids, and a red eyespot.

What is Chlamydomonas?

500

This genus of filamentous algae has holdfasts and large, netlike chloroplasts as well as antheridia and oogonia for sexual reproduction.

What is Oedogonium?

Phylum Chromophyta - Which class is it?

100

This class of protists is mostly unicellular and has cell walls made almost entirely of silica.

What is Bacillariophyceae?

200

This class of algae includes mostly freshwater organisms with motile cells typically having two flagella oriented in opposite directions.

What is Xanthophyceae?

300

This class of algae is typically found in freshwater, may have a photoreceptor present on a flagellum, and produce yellow-brown carotenoid pigments.

What is Chrysophyceae?

400

This class of algae is made up of relatively large, marine individuals that produce the pigment fucoxanthin.

What is Phaeophyceae?

500

!!!DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!

Come to the board - draw and label the parts of a brown algae.

Parts should include holdfast, stipe, blade(s), and air bladder(s).

Slime Molds - Which phylum is it?

100

This phylum creates cottony growths on fish and insects.

What is Oomycota?

200

This phylum has a plasmodium with many diploid nuclei.

What is Myxomycota?

300

This phylum includes individual cells that clump together to form a pseudoplasmodium.

What is Dictyosteliomycota?

400

This phylum has individual amoeba-like cells.

What is Dictyosteliomycota?

500

This phylum can form coenocytic hyphae.

What is Oomycota?