Protists 101
A single-celled organism of the kingdom Protista.
What is a protist?
Protists are these type of cells.
Example: Bacteria are prokaryotic cells.
What are eukaryotic cells?
They are apart of the phylum protozoa (Animal like protists).
What are plankton?
Protists have these organelles.
What are membrane bound organelles?
The way protists reproduce.
What is sexually and/or asexually?
The kingdom that protists belong to.
What is Protista?
Protists are similar to these organisms.
What are animals, fungi, and plants?
They are apart of the phylum algae (Plant like protists).
What are phytoplankton?
Small strands all along a protist that propel the organism through the environment by moving back and forth.
What are cilia?
The foundation of food webs.
What are protists?
The domain protists belong to.
What is Eukarya?
Protist generally have this sort of behaviour, and habits.
What is basic?
They are apart of the phylum protozoa (Animal like protists) but they generally eat plankton and phytoplankton.
What are Zooplankton?
In a sense, it is like a tail that is on one end of the protist, that moves back and forth to propel the organism.
What is flagellum?
Between the size of a school bus and a grain of sand.
What are protists?
This phylum has forty thousand species in their phylum.
What is phylum ciliophora?
This phylum has eight thousand species in their phylum.
What is phylum protozoa?
The protist that causes malaria in humans.
What is a type of plasmodium?
They are basically like large cytoplasmic extensions that help move the organism in different directions and grab ahold of things.
What are pseudopods?
Protists are this sort of organism.
Hint - They do not have a spine or backbone.
What are invertebrates?
The group of prokaryotes that scientist speculate protists came from.
What are endosymbiotic prokaryotes?
The three generalized phylums of protists.
What are protozoans, mold, and algae?
This phylum has zero form of locomotion.
What is the phylum of apicomplexa?
The ways that protists asexually reproduce.
What is through binary fission or multiple fission?
The entire taxonomy chart starting from domain descending to species.
Hint - I already gave you two.
What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?