| A | B |
|---|
| phytoplankta | photosynthetic protists |
| chlorophyta | ancestors of plants |
| rhodophyta | algae with phycoerthrin, a red pigment |
| brown algae | for example, the kelps |
| diatoms | phytoplankta with Silica dioxide (glass) shells |
| foraminiphera | algae with intricate shells made of calcium carbonate |
| dinoflagellates | cause toxic red tides when they bloom in water high in phosphates and nitrates |
| euglena | eyespots allow positive phototaxis towards light |
| paramecia | macronucleus for daily functions, micronucleus for sexual reproduction |
| contractile vacuole | in paramecia allow osmotic regulation |
| green algae | only algae with chlorophylls a, b, & starch |
| oomycota | large gametes made in gametangia, caused potato blight |
| slime molds | unicelluar amoeboid cells aggregate to form fruiting bodies in adverse conditions |
| holdfast | root like preadaptation in sea weeds |
| blade | leaf like preadaption in sea weeds |
| cellulase | excreted by protists in ruminant ceca |
| agar & carageenan | dehydration prevention in low tides |
| amoeba | animal like moving with pseudopodia |
| giardia | cause amoebic dissentery |
| apicomplexa | require 2 hosts & cause malaria & sleeping sickness |
| intracellular digestion | employed by ingestive animal-like protists |
| phagocytosis | cell eating |
| zooplankta | means floating animal like protists |
| protozoa | means ancestors of animals |
| sea weeds | outgroup in the kingdom protist |
| 2 to 2.5 billion years ago | 1st protists form by endosymbiosis |
| conjugation | fusion of unicellular protists followed by meiosis |
