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Mitosomes
________ are shrunken mitochondria found in diplomonads.
Excavates
________ include parasites such as Giardia, as well as many predatory and photosynthetic species, as shown in the image attached.
Diplomanads
________ obtain their energy through anaerobic metabolic processes.
Parabasalids
________ also have decreased mitochondria, known as hydrogenosomes, which generate some energy anaerobically while emitting hydrogen gas as a byproduct.
majority of eukaryotes
The ________ are single- celled creatures.
Protists
________ are important members of ecological communities.
parasites
Many diplomonads are ________, including the notorious Giardia intestinalis, which lives in mammalian intestines.
Trichomonas vaginalis
________, a sexually transmitted parasite that infects around 5 million individuals each year, is the most well- known parabasalid.
term excavation
The ________ refers to some members of a supergroup that have an "excavated "groove on one side of the cell body.
prokaryotic flagella
They are not the same as ________, which are filaments made up of globular proteins linked to the cell surface.
Plastids
________ are considered to be the offspring of cyanobacteria that were devoured by early eukaryotic cells.
Giardia intestinalis
________ is a parasitic diplomonad.
plastid bearing lineage
The ________ gave rise to red algae and green algae.
eukaryotes
Protists, like plants, animals, and fungi, are ________; they belong to the category of Eukarya, one of the three domains of life.
Diplomanads
________ feature two equal- sized nuclei and many flagella.
Protists
________ and other eukaryotes, unlike prokaryotes, contain a nucleus and other membrane- enclosed organelles, as well as a cytoskeleton that allows them to have asymmetric shapes and change shape when they eat, move, or grow.
Protists
________ that produce photosynthetically are among the most significant producers in aquatic ecosystems.
