1. Protists
Chapter 19.

2. Daily Objective 4/22
Become familiar with Kingdom Protista, specifically Algae: Plantlike Protists

3. Kingdom Protista Kingdom Protista contains the most diverse organisms.
Protist’s may be unicellular, multi-cellular, microscopic or large, heterotrophic or autotrophic.
The only characteristic that all Protist’s share is that they are eukaryotic.

4. Protist Video Intro

5. Three Main Groups of Protist
Protozoa- animal-like protists, all are unicellular
Protist cause diseases such as malaria, sleeping sickness and result in million of deaths per year.
Algae- plant like protists, all are photosynethetic
Unicellular algae produce much of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere and are the basis of aquatic food chains.
Fungus- like protist, all decomposers
Slime molds and water molds decompose organic materials and return nutrients to the soil.

6. 1. Fungus-like Protists
Heterotrophic organisms that decompose organic matter to obtain energy
Three phyla
Phylum Myxomycota
Phylum Acrasiomycota
Phylum Oomycota

7. 1. Phylum Myxomycota- Plasmodial Slime Mold
Named due to the formation of a plasmodium
Plasmodium is a mass of cytoplasm that contains many diploid nuclei but no cell wall or membrane.
Creates a slimy, multi-nucleate mass that creeps like an amoeba over decaying surfaces and engulfs microscopic organism digesting them in food vacuoles.
Undergo meiosis when moisture or good become scarce to form spores, which are dispersed into the wind.

8. 2. Phylum Acrasiomycota- Cellular Slime Molds
Spend part of their life cycle as independent amoeboid cell that feeds, grows and divides by cellular division.
When food become scarce, the independent cells join with hundreds or thousands of others to reproduce, unlike the plasmodium, these cells have distinct cell membranes

9. 3. Phylm Oomycota- Water molds and downy mildews
Large and diverse group of fungus-like protists that live in water or moist places
Water molds appear as fuzzy, white growths on decaying matter, much like fungus.
They are not classified with fungi because they produce flagellated reproductive cells
The downy mildew, Phytophthora infectans, was responsible for the potato famine in Ireland from

10. 2. Algae:Plantlike Protists
Algae are photosynthetic protists that produce more than half of the oxygen in the atmosphere.
Diversity of Algae- 6 Phylums
1. Phylum Euglenoids 2. Phylum Bacillariophyta
3. Phylum Dinoflagellata 4. Phylum Rhodophyta
5. Phylum Phaeophyta 6. Phylum Chlorophyta

11. 1. Phylum Euglenoids- Euglena
Unicellular, aquatic protist with both plant and animal-like characteristics
They contain photosynthetic pigments and can photosynthesize
When light is not available they can be heterotrophic and ingest food.

12. 2. Phylum Bacillariophyta- Diatoms
Unicellular, photosynthetic
Shell composed of silica (glass-like)
Reproduce sexually and asexually
Deposits of dead diatoms collect in the ocean sediments, used as abrasives in toothpaste, metal polishes, make-up, and paint.

13. 3. Phylum Dinoflagellata- Dinoflagellates
Unicellular, photosynethic with cell walls composed of cellulose
Have two flagella that casue the protist to spin while moving
Some are bioluminescent
Several species produce toxins
Gonyaulax catanella, produces an extremely strong nerve toxin that can be lethal.-
creates red tide, a dangerous condiotion in the summer when there are population explosions. As many as million per liter of water.

14. 4. Phylum Rhodophyta- Red Algae
Multicellular, photosynethic seaweeds
Body of seawed called a thallus
Lacks roots, stems and leaves; have holdfasts to attach to rocks.
In addition to chlorophyll, contain pigments that absorb green, violet and blue light and can therefore live in deep waters.

15. 5. Phylum Phaeophyta- Brown Algae
Multicellular, photosynethetic algae, composed of yellowish-brownish pigments.
Almost all are marine
Some also have air bladders that help them float near surface when light is available
Kelp is the largest and most complex
Kelp forms dense, underwater forests that provide a rich habitat for marine organisms.

16. 6. Phylum Chlorophyta- Green Algae
Unicellular colonial (many single-celled living together) or multicelluar photosynthetic algae with mostly chlorophyll and yellow pigments
Most live in freshwater; some live in moist soil, and tree trunks
Examples- Spirogyra-multicellular slender filaments. Volvox- colonial spheres
Reproduce asexullay by fragmentation, an individual breaks up into pieces and each piece grows into a new individual
Reproduce sexually by forming spores

17. 3.Diversity of Protozoans
Grouped according to their method of locomotion.
Four main groups of Protozoans (animal-like)
Amoebas
Flagellates
Ciliates
Sporozoans
-No cell wall
-Form pseudopodia to move and feed by engulfing their prey
-live in aquatic enviornments
-asexually reproduce
Ie. Foraminifera’s and radiolarians, cause African Sleeping Sickness
-one or more flagella used for locomotion
-many cause disease although some are helpful.
i.e. termites
-Covered in cilia used in locomotion.
Asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction
-i.e paramecium
-produce spores (reproductive cell that forms without fertilization)
-all are parasites and have one or more hosts
-complex lifecycles
i.e. plasmodium (causes malaria)

18. Sporozoans: Plasmodium
Malaria LifeCycle

19. Alternation of Generations
The life cycles of some algae's and all plants have a pattern of reproduction called the alternation of generations (A of G). The organism alternate between a haploid form (n=one copy of the chromosomes) in the gametophyte stage in which the organism produced gametes (male and female sex cells) and the sporophyte form of the organism in which the organisms produced spore cells (2n=two copies of the chromosomes) that form into a new organism. The organism alternates between sexual and asexual reproduction.

20. (Using figure 19.21 pg. 560 Draw the A of G with descriptions at each stage )