Protists

Excavata: Have MROs and are anaerobic

• Diplomonads and Kinetoplastids

  • Diplomonads

    • mitosome MROs

  • Parabasalids

    • hydrogenozome MROs

SAR Clade

• alveolates: have air filled vesicles

  • dinoflagelates

    • large % of phytoplankton

    • 2 flagella

    • autotrophic

  • apicomplexans

    • heterotrophic

    • complex 3 part life cycle

  • ciliates

    • micro and macro nuclei

    • heterotropihic

    • can do horizontal gene transfer.

• stramelophiles: have 2 flagella (smooth and hairy) and store glucose as laminarin

  • diatoms

    • autotrophic

    • have silica shells

  • golden algae

    • autotrophic

    • make up large % of phytoplankton

  • brown algae

    • tall

    • autotrophic

    • make algin

    • do alternation of generations

      • heteromorphic

    • water molds

      • heterotrophic

      • thought to be fungi but can’t reproduce sexually

      • common crop pathogen