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Am under the impression we do not need to cover fungi (the fun guy) as it is not a protist.  Secondly.  I need, Cannon, to lighten up your life and give you a piece of biology which is irristable!  Look!  :)  Michael Phelps... a serious piece of biology.  Every female swimmers dream...

I hope this blog was to your liking.  I tried UBER hard, and spent HOURS!  AND HOURS!  AND HOURS!  So... enjoy?

Zooplankton - Animal Like

-Protozoa

-all memebers of Protista Kingdom that act like animals

-Heterotroph - cannot make food; get from outside source

-lots of movement

-many types of relationships (Holozoic: engulf food; Saprozoic: absorb through membrane)

-classified by movement

-Amoeba (pseudopods)

-Paramecium (cilia)

-Flagellates (flagellum)

-Sporozans (produce spores)

PROTOZOAN (Sub-groups):

Phylum Sarcodina

-Have no shape - small mass of cloudy stuff

-some have a calcium casing

-pseudopods (false feet)

-Reproduction:  asexual, pseudopods seperate, genetic replication, pseudopods split cell/nucleus, two cells result

-food surrounded by feet and stored in a vacuole

Phylum Ciliphora:

-cilia sweep food into mouth

MEIOSIS... CONJUGATION... SEE PICTURE... SOURCE.

Phylum Mastigophora

-flagella

-typically independent

-can live inside other organisms

-causes "African Sleeping Sickness" spread by the tsetse fly

-can live in termites and assist in digestion

Phylum Sporozoa:

-Sporozoanas

-use host for movement

-ex. Malaria - carried throughout body by blood flow

Phylum Gymnomycota:

-fungus-like, slime-molds

-unicellular and multicellular

Getting Tired. End of the Phytoplankton.

Less enthusiastic.  Attempting to be positive.

Phylum Diatoms:

-Chrysophyta - golden brown algae

-fresh and salt water

-covered by shells of silica that fit together

-much of the worlds petroleum may be stored of diatoms

Phylum Dinoflagellates:

-Pyrrophyta

-surrounded

-two flagella

-photosynthetic

-phosphorescent 

-responsible for "red tides"

-hold toxins and therefore, overpopulation can leave water smelling and tasting bad

Basic Info

Just some quick notes from the notes:

Kingdom Facts:

-members of the Kingdom Protista

-simplest eukaryotes (contain membrane bound nuclei and organelles)

-not plants, fungi, animals OR bacteria, therefore, this kingdom is essentially the home for the leftovers

-most members are microscopic, but some form colonies

-classified due to modes of nutrition, pigments, food storage, flagella, enviornments or components.

Random:

-evolved 1.7 billion years ago

-live in digestive tracts, ponds, and drops of water - basically, anywhere that you can find moisture!

-some are parasites

-Autotrophic:  make food through photosynthesis.  Ex. Phytoplankton

-Heterotrophic:  take food in through an outside source.  Ex. Zooplankton

Phytoplankton:

-plantlike

-algaes included, but can also be found in kingdoms Moneran and Plant

-vary in colour

-often grouped by colour

-makeup a large part of the plankton in the sea

-ALGAE USE PHOTOSYNTHESIS (very intrigued...)

Phylum Euglenophyta

-usually unicellular

-move by using flagellum

-photosynthetic

-mouth-like structure

-reproduces asexually

-See diagram below. SOURCE.

Neeeeext!

Here we go again! Let's start!

A quick Summary - The 5 W's!

WHO:  Protists

WHAT:  Complex, typically single-celled organisms that form colonies

WHERE:  Water or other moist places

WHEN:  Descendants from the early eukaryotes when the oxygen increased in the atmosphere - evolved just after Archaea

WHY:  "We were created to worship the King..."

OKAY NOW... back to the drawing board...

So, originally, in December, I finished this whole blog because I heard it was due!  Well apparently not.  And I feel like I did it ALL WRONG.  So I'm going to write up a new entry based on my notes and review.  This will probably not have a lot of pictures or sources (I source your notes now, Cannon).  But, just to ensure I will get an excellent mark (I want an excellent mark... :)) here, is my blog, again.  Revised some more... keep watching... sitting, waiting, wishing (thank you, Jack Johnson)...

Pictures from Time to Chit Chat Part 2...

All pictures are from SOURCE.