BIOL 112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Synapomorphy, Protist, Coenocyte

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Ch. 26 protists: common to protists: mostly unicellular eukaryotic organisms that live in aquatic environments, unlike a clade, protists are only joined together by the lack of synapomorphies with the plant, fungi, and animal kingdoms. However, they do have synapomorphies that group them into the monophyletic clade of eukaryotes. Protists can be used to discuss the eukaryotes as a whole. Protist diversity: protists exhibit substantial variation in, body types, means of locomotion, mode of nutrition, interactions with other organisms, habitats, modes of reproduction. Not surprising since they are no more closely related as a group than plants and animals: body types, unicellular organisms, microscopic, most protists, colonies, loosely connected groups of cells. Sexual reproduction usually two gametes: (i. e. egg and sperm) fuse to form a zygote, many protists reproduce both sexually and asexually, others have apparently lost sexual reproduction and reproduce only asexually.

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