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10 Cards in this Set
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Excavates
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-Protista lack mitochondria
-Include Diplomonads, Parabasalids and Trichomonads |
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Phylum Hypermastigs
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-Singled celled organisms w/lots of flagella arranged in circular, longitudinal or spiral rows
-Excavates -Important symbionts in guts of wood-eating insects |
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Discicristates
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-photoautrophic and heterotrophic
-Free-living and parasitic -Mictochondria w/inner membranes arranged as disks -Include kinetoplastids and Euglenophyta |
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Phylum Euglenophyta
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-Freshwater protist
-Grass-green color from chlorophyll b -Elongate cells w/an apical depression called a gullet from which one flagellum emerges -Capable of changing shapes by a process called metaboly |
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Amoebozoa
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-include lobose amoebas, plasmodial and dictyostelid slime molds
-ingestive heterotrophs |
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Phylum Gymnamoeba
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-Lobose amoebas
-Continuously changes shape from formation of pseudopodia |
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Pseudopodia
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Fingerlike extensions of the protoplasm used in movement and capture of prey
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Phylum Myxogastrida (plasmodial slime molds)
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-Have an amoeboid
-Phagocytic stages -Fruiting bodies on stalks -Form a plasmodium |
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Cercozoa
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-Singled-celled amoeboid organisms
-Ingestive heterotrophs -Projecting branching pseudopods out of tests -Include radiolarians and foraminifera |
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Radiolarians
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-Cercozoa
-Amoeba-like cells that live in siliceous tests |
