protozoan and algae lab

Protozoan and Algae Lab

By: Paige Weist and Jessie Setlock

Stentor (live) Stentor (prepared)

Size: 196 umPhylum: CiliatesLocomotion: cilia

Size: 206 umPhylum: ciliatesLocomotion:cilia

cilia

macronucleus

micronucleus

cilia

Amoeba (live)

Size: 311 umPhylum: SarcodineLocomotion: pseudopods

Amoeba (prepared)

Size: 172 umPhylum: SarcodineLocomotion: pseudopodsd

pseudopodnucleus

Contractile vacuole

pseudopod

pseudopod

Amoeba Video

Speed: .000005749 mi/hr

Paramecium (live) Paramecium (prepared)

Size:43 um Phylum: CiliateLocomotion: Cilia

Size: 178 umPhylum: CiliateLocomotion: Cilia

macronucleus

Micronucleus(behind the box)

cilia

macronucleus

micronucleus

Contractile vacuole

cilia

Paramecium VideoSpeed: 0.001856657 mi/hr

Spirostonium (live)

Size: 238 umPhylum: CiliateLocomotion: cilia

cilia

Food vacuole

Contractile vacuole

Euglena (live) Euglena (prepared)

Size: 173 umPhylum: EuglenaphytaLocomotion: flagellum

Size: 65 umPhylum: EuglenophytaLocomotion: flagellum

nucleus

flagellum

flagellum

Euglena VideoSpeed: 0.001610591 mi/hr

Volvox (live) Volvox (prepared)Size: 186 umPhylum: ChlorophytaLocomotion: flagellaPigment: Chlorophyll a and b

Size: 62 umPhylum: ChlorophytaLocomotion: flagellaPigment: chlorophyll a and b

flagella

Daughter colonies

Vegetative cells

flagella

Nostoc (live)Size: 290 umPhylum: cyanobacteriaLocomotion: secretion of mucilage, glidingPigment: chlorophyll a, phycocyanin, and phycoerythinheterocyst

Chlamydomonas (live) Chlamydomonas (prepared)

Size:195 umPhylum: ChlorophytaLocomotion: 2 flagellaPigments: chlorophyll a and b

Size: 220 umPhylum: ChlorophytaLocomotion: 2 flagellaPigments: chlorophyll a and b

flagella

flagella

Navicula (live)Size : 175 umPhylum: DiatomLocomotion: a type of gliding motilityPigments: photosynthetic brown pigment

nucleus

Oedogonium (live) Oedogonium (prepared)

Size: 215 umPhylum: ChlorophytaLocomotion: flagellaPigments: chlorophyll a and b

Size : 71 umPhylum: ChlorophytaLocomotion: flagellaPigments: chlorophyll a and b

oogonium

Zygote in oogonium

Young oogonium

antheridium

Anabaena (live)Size: 183 umPhylum: CyanobacteriaLocomotion: secretion of mucilage, glidingPigments: chlorophyll a, phycocyanin, and phycoerythin akinete

heterocyst

Spirogyra (live) Spirogyra (prepared)

Size : 202 umPhylum: ChlorophytaLocomotion: flagellaPigments: chlorophyll a and b

Size:190 umPhylum: ChlorophytaLocomotion: flagellaPigments: chlorophyll a and b

chloroplasts

Cell wall

nucleus nucleus

Peridinium (live)Size: 174 umPhylum: DinoflagellatesLocomotion: flagellatesPigments: chlorophylls a, c1 and c2 and the carotenoids: fucoxanthin, diadinoxanthin, diatoxanthin, an unidentified fucoxanthin-like xanthophyll, β-carotene, γ-carotene and astaxanthin

nucleusflagella

Sphacelaria (live)Size: 297 umPhylum: Brown AlgaeLocomotion: nonePigments: chlorophyll a, c, and fucoxanthin

Cell wall

chloroplasts

Callithamnion (live)Size: 203 umPhylum: Red AlgaeLocomotion: nonePigments: Chlorophyll a and phycobilins

phycobilins

Cell wall

Trypanosome (prepared)Size: 217 umPhylum: EuglenophytaLocomotion: flagella

nucleus

flagella

Giardia (prepared)Size: 191 umPhylum: metamonadaLocomotion: flagella

nuclei

flagellum

Vorticella (prepared)

Size: 173 umPhylum: CiliateLocomotion: Cilia

nucleus

cilia

Radiolaria (prepared)

Size: 203 umPhylum: SarcodineLocomotion: pseudopods

nucleus

pseudopods

Desmids (prepared)

Size: 170 umPhylum: ChlorophytaLocomotion: flagellaPigments: chlorophyll a and b

flagella

nucleus

Plasmodium (prepared)Size: 241 umPhylum: ApicomplexaLocomotion: flagella

flagella

Leishmania (prepared)

Size: 25 umPhylum: EuglenophytaLocomotion: flagella

nucleus

flagella

Trichomonas (prepared)Size: 16 umPhylum: MetamonadaLocomotion: flagella

nucleus

flagella