Characteristics
Evolution
Types of Protists
Relationships/Connections
Fun Facts/Extras
100
A common way protists reproduce
What is binary fission?
100
Mitochondria and chloroplasts evolved through this.
What is endosymbiosis?
100
This type of protist causes human diseases and spreads infectious cells, called sporozoites, through its host.
What is an apicomplexan?
100
This makes up the vast majority of "seaweed" species.
What is brown algae?
100
This man discovered protists.
Who is Antoni Van Leewenhoek?
200
The structures protists use for movement.
What are cilia, flagella, and psuedopodia?
200
This is the closest relative to land plants.
What is green algae?
200
Members of this group have an "excavated" groove on one side of the cell body.
What is the supergroup Excavata?
200
This type of protist is mutually symbiotic to some coral and other marine life, but causes billions of dollars in damage to the seafood industry.
What is a dinoflagellate?
200
This protist is one of the few that can be easily spotted without any visual aid.
What is giant sea kelp? (made up of brown algae)
300
This gives Golden and Brown algae their destinctive colors.
What is a carotenoid?
300
This is the common ancestor of the Chromalveolates.
What is red algae?
300
Plant-like protists.
What is photosynthetic algae?
300
A protozoan lives in this critter's stomach and breaks down its food to form a mutually symbiotic relationship.
What is a termite?
300
A type of edible protist that is rich in vitamins and minerals.
What is red algae?
400
This type of protist is animal like and heterotrophic/ingestive.
What is a protozoan?
400
Unikonts are most closely related to these.
What are fungi and animals?
400
This group includes red and green algae.
What is the supergroup Archaeplastida?
400
Many species of protists have a symbiotic relationship with-and are very abundant in- this marine/freshwater organism.
What is plankton?
400
There are somewhere between these two numbers of species of protists, but we don't know the actual number.
What is 65,000 and 200,000?
500
The protist Plasmodium causes this disease. (This isn't really a characteristic.. sorry)
What is malaria?
500
After primary and secondary endosymbiosis, protists evolved into these 5 super-groups.
What are excavata, chromalveolata, rhizaria, archaeplastida, and unikonta?
500
The three types of Alveolates.
What are dinoflagellates, ciliates, and apicomplexans?
500
These protists (that were once thought of as fungi) break down potatoes and cause them to get black and slimey.
What are oomycetes?
500
Protists were accepted as their own kingdom in this year.
What is 1969?
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