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Protist groups
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
02/12/2011

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Stramenopiles
Definition
-group of marine algae
-obtained plastids through 2ndary symbiosis
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Diatoms
Definition
-unicellular algae
-glass like silicon wall-fits like shoe box
-one flagellum
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Ciliates
Definition
-Use cilia to move and feed
-have micro and macro nuclei
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Macronucleus
Definition
-Found in ciliates
-contains 50 or more copies of the genome
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Micronucleus
Definition
-Found in ciliates
-contains 1 copy of genome
-cannot be destroyed or altered
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Apicomplexans
Definition
-In the phylum Alveolates
-Mostly parasites-ex. Plasmodium (malaria)
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Dinoflagellates
Definition
-Part of Alveolates
-Browinish yellow color
-CHL a&c
-DNA lack histones
-obtained plastids fro 3$2 endosymbiosis
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Euglenozoans
Definition
-PArt of protist group
-have flagellar crystalline rod with 9+2 arrangement of microtubules
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Kinetoplastids
Definition
-Have kinetoplast
-large mitochondria
-ex. Trypanosome (African Sleeping sickness)
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Euglenoids
Definition
-Part of Euglenozoans
-1-2 flagella
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Amoebozoa
Definition
-Group of protist
-have lobe shaped pseudopods
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Gyamoebae
Definition
-Part of Amoebozoa
-No extracellular structures
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Plasmodial slime moldds
Definition
-Part of Amoebozoa
-One giant cell
-Dominat diploid
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Cellular Slime molds
Definition
-Part of Amoebozoa
-Can be individual or multicellular depending on food supply
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Ciliata sexual life cylce
Definition
Diploid micronucleas---4 Haploid micronucleas---crossing over---syngamy (diploid)
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