Protists and Fungi Flash

Protista AND Fungi “Cell Type”

Eukaryotic

Protista “Body Type”

Mostly unicellular, some multicellular

Protista Nutrition Mode

Autotrophic AND Heterotrophic

Protista Cell Wall Composition

Various Forms

The animal-like protists

Protozoans

Kinetoplastids have atypical or absent ________.

mitochondrias

Kinetoplastids use a ______ for movement.

Flagellum

Example of kinetoplastids: a parasite causing African sleeping sickness which kills 45,000 people/year

Trypanosomiasis

Amoeboids use cytoplasmic projections called _______ for feeding and movement.

psuedopodia

Example of Amoebids that is the SIMPLEST FORM OF LIFE. Single cell with no definite shape, just a single blob ______

Amoebas

Ciliates have _____ which are short, hair-like movements for feeding and movement.

cilia

Ciliates ingest their food and reproduce ________

asexually

Example of Ciliates: ________, a free-living organism that controls its movement through the use of 100’s of small, hair-like projections

Paramecium

The fungis-like protists: _____
Function as decomposers of dead organic matter to provide plants with nutrients; they also feed on bacteria keeping their population under control, LACK A CELL WALL (unlike fungi)

Slime molds

_______ which uses a long flagellum for movement. Photosynthetic chloroplasts are prominent features inside this organism's cell.

Euglena

Fungi body type

Mostly multicellular, some unicellular

Fungi nutrition source

Heterotrophic and Saprotrophic

Fungi Cell Wall Composition

Chitin

These organisms are composed of several thin filaments called

hyphae

A tangled network of underground filaments is called

mycelium

The visible part of a fungus that you can see aboveground is called the ______. This contains the spore producing structures needed for reproduction

fruiting body

How do fungi reproduce?

Fungi reproduce asexually and sexually.

A reproductive cell that can grow & develop into a new organism without the need to fuse with another reproductive cell is called a ______.

spore

Black bread mold which is in phylum Zygomycota is known as ______.

Rhizopus