BIOL 1030 Chapter Notes - Chapter 28: Phytophthora Infestans, Euglena, African Trypanosomiasis

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOL 1030
• Professor: Scott Kevin

Document Summary

Overview: a world in a drop of water. In the past, taxonomists classified all protists in a single kingdom, protista. However, it is now clear that protista is in fact paraphyletic. Some protists are more closely related to plants, fungi, or animals than they are to other protists. As a result, the kingdom protista has been abandoned. Various lineages are recognized as kingdoms in their own right. Scientists still use the convenient term protist informally to refer to eukaryotes that are not plants, animals, or fungi. Concept 28. 1 protists are an extremely diverse assortment of eukaryotes. Protists exhibit more structural and functional diversity than any other group of organisms. Most protists are unicellular, although there are some colonial and multicellular ones. At the cellular level, many protists are very complex. This is to be expected of a single cell that must carry out the basic functions performed by all the specialized cells in a multicellular organism.