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What is an example of a member of the Phylum Rhizopoda?
amoeba
what are pseudopods used for?
locomotion and phagocytosis
food vacuole
used to store and intracellularly digest food with enzymes
contractile vacuole
expel excessive water (is typically overstretched and therefore bigger than food vacuole)
how do amoeba reproduce?
binary fission
What is an example of an organism in the Phylum Sarcomastigophora?
trypanosoma
what disease does trypanosoma cause?
african sleeping sickness through the tsetse fly
how do trypanosoma move?
a flagellum and an undulating membrane
how do trypanosoma reproduce?
transverse fission
what is an example of an organism in the phylum ciliaphora?
paramecium
how does paramecium move?
beating cilia
How is paramecium shaped and what are some of its structures?
shoe shaped (because of pellicle)
oral groove
food and contractile vacuoles
how do paramecium reproduce asexually and sexually?
asexually---transverse fission
sexually--conjugation
what phylum do vorticella belong to?
Ciliophora
what phylum do forams belong to?
Foraminifera
what compound makes up the test of a foram?
CaCO3
what phylum does Plasmodium belong to?
Apicomplexans
what disease does Plasmodium cause?
causes malaria by infecting RBC using the female Anopheles mosquito as the vector
What phylum does Physarum belong to?
Myxomycota
What is the common name for Phylum Myxomycota?
Plasmodial Slime Molds
sclerotium
hard resistant structure that a plasmodium may dry into when environmental conditions become less optimal