BIOL 1002 Chapter : Chapter 20

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The group of protists represents an unusual mix of organisms. Stramenophiles: water molds, diatoms and brown algae, alveolates, dinoflagellates, apicomplexans and ciliates, rhizarians. Foraminiferans & radiolarians: ameobozoans, amoebas & slime molds, red algae, green algae, protists are eukaryotes, so they have: Nucleus (with a double membrane) linear dna (vs. circular for prokaryotes) Since the organisms of this group, protista, are made up of eukaryotes they are clearly different from the bacteria and archaea. Protista sounds like prokarya (careful!: past classifications of the protists organized them into three general groups based on nutritional methods: plant like - autotrophic (photosynthetic) fungus like - heterotrophic (decomposers) animal like - heterotrophic (hunters and symbiotic) Protozoans are heterotrophic protists, which actively seek and ingest their food (either food particles or other organisms) The classification of the protists is a work in progress. Some species that had been grouped together because they had physical similarites were actually from different lineages (convergent evolution)

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