BIOL 1002 Chapter : Chapter 20 Protists

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The group of protists represents an unusual mix of organisms. The organisms found in this group are __all eukaryotes _ and most are single-celled_ for most of their life-cycle: outline, what are protists, what are the 8 major groups, excavates___, diplomonads & parabasalids. _alveolates ___: water molds, diatoms and brown algae, dinoflagellates, apicomplexans and ciliates, amoebas & slime molds, protists are eukaryotes, so they have: Since the organisms of this group, protista, are made up of _eukaryotic cells _, 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: __algae are the photosynthethic protists 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 similarities ______ were actually from ___different lineages___

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