Protist Basics
Move It or Lose It!
Plant-like Protists
Protist Diversity
Animal-like Protists
100
This kingdom contains mostly unicellular organisms that don’t fit into the plant, animal, or fungi kingdoms.
What is the Protist Kingdom?
100
This hair-like structure helps protists like Paramecium swim through water.
What is a cilium (or cilia)?
100
These plant-like protists can make their own food using this process.
What is photosynthesis?
100
This group contains green Algae, Red Algae charophytes; also describes certain plants.
What is an Archseplastid?
100
This animal-like protist moves using pseudopods and engulfs food via a process called phagocytosis.
What is an Amoeba?
200
Protists are usually classified based on how they obtain this essential resource for survival
What is food?
200
Euglena moves using this whip-like tail.
What is a flagellum (or flagella)?
200
This green protist lives in freshwater and has both plant- and animal-like traits — it can photosynthesize and move with a flagellum.
What is Euglena?
200
This group contains stramenopiles: Brown Algae, diatoms, golden brown algae, and water molds
And Aveolates: ciliates, apicomplexans, dinoflagellates
And Rhizarians: foraminifera, radiolarians.
What is a SAR supergroup?
200
This parasitic protist is transmitted by the bite of a tsetse fly and causes sleeping sickness.
What is Trypanosoma?
300
This jelly-like cell structure helps control the movement and shape of some protists, like the amoeba.
What is the pseudopod?
300
Amoebas move by extending parts of their body in a crawling motion using these.
What are pseudopods?
300
These tiny plant-like protists have glass-like cell walls and are found in oceans. They’re also used in toothpaste and filters!
What are diatoms?
300
This group contains Euglenids, kinetoplastids, parabasalids, and diplomonads.
What is Excavates? ie Giardia
300
This ciliate protist moves by using cilia and can be found in ponds or aquariums.
What is Paramecium?
400
Unlike multicellular organisms, most protists have just this many cells.
What is one (they are unicellular)?
400
Protists that move using cilia are called this.
What are ciliates?
400
These plant-like protists can be green, red, or brown and often form large seaweeds
What is algae?
400
This group contains Amoeboids, plasmodial and cellular slime molds
What is an Amoebozoan?
400
This animal-like protist is responsible for causing the disease known as "Giardiasis" in humans.
What is Giardia?
500
This term describes organisms whose cells contain a nucleus, like all protists.
What is eukaryotic?
500
This group of protists doesn’t move on its own and relies on a host to get around, like Plasmodium, which causes malaria.
What are parasitic protists (or sporozoans)?
500
Plant-like protists are also known by this general term that includes both microscopic and macroscopic photosynthetic organisms.
What is phytoplankton?
500
This group contains Choanoflagellates, nucleariids.
What is an Opisthokont?