PROTIST LABBy: Nicole Fidler and Rachel ReinekeHonors Eckert

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Amoeba

Nucleus

Cytoplasm

Pseudopods

Contractile Vacuole

Food Vacuole

•Measurement: Prepared= 189.91706 ums, Live= 152.91164 ums•Phylum: sarcodina•Amoebid movement•Flexible•Captures/digest food by surrounding it•Stores food in food vacuole•Has contractile vacuole•Binary fission•Moves using pseudopods•AMOEBA MOVIE!•Speed: 95.793 ums in 42.07 sec

Anabanea

heterocyst

•Measurement: 196.13594 ums•Cyanobacteria•Produces neurotoxins•Brownian movement

Callithamnion

Nucleus

Cell Wall•Measurement: 369.9462824 ums•Phylum: Rhodophyta•Chlorophyll a•Phycobilins and live at great depths•Lack flagella

Chlamydomonas

Eye spot

Flagella

Cell Wall

Nucleus

•Measurement: Prepared= 13.95902 ums, Live= 16.4 ums•Phylum: chlorophyta•2 flagella•Cup shaped chloroplasts•Chlorophyll a and b •Has contractile vacuoles•Alteration of generations

DesmidsCytoplasm

Chloroplasts

Nucleus

Cell Wall

•Measurement: 210.20137 ums•Phylum: chlorophyta•Chlorophyll a and b•Movement by flagella•Alternation of generations

Euglena

Nucleus

Flagella

Pellicle

Chloroplasts

Stigma

•Measurement: Prepared= 193.66980 ums, Live= 195.93933 ums•Phylum: euglenphyta•Uses flagella for movement•Has eyespot and pellicle•2 flagella, no cell wall•Excellent swimmers•EUGLENA MOVIE!•Speed: 43.2205 ums in 2.575 sec

Giardia

Nucleus

Flagella •Measurement: 623.39937 ums• movement by flagella•Microscopic cysts•Phylum: metamonada

Leshmania

Nucleus

Flagella• Measurements: 382.82880 ums•Causes lechmaniasis•Phylum: Euglenozoa•Movement by flagella•parasite

Navicula

Nucleus

Cell Wall •Measurement: 12.61468 ums•Phylum: bacillariophyta•Cell walls of silicon•Movement: limited substrate

Nostoc

Heterocyst

•Measurement: 18.91157 ums•cyanobacteria•Colonies of filaments•Gliding movement

Oedogonium

Egg cell

Cell wall

•Measurement: Prepared= 855.1063 ums, Live= 120.1524 ums•Phylum: chlorophyta•Chlorophyll a and b•Moves using flagella •Adaptions: produces zoospores and syngamy

ParameciumCilia

Macronucleus

Micronucleus

Cytoplasm

Pellicle

Food Vacuole

•Distance: Prepared= 98.28074 ums, Live= 146.03313 ums•Phylum: ciliophora•Uses cilia for movement•Cell membrane is highly structured •Uses trichocysts for defence•Macronucleus keeps copies the cell needs for day to day life•Micronucleus contains a reserve copy of all the cells genes•Organized cilia •PARAMECIUM MOVIE!•Speed: 95.795 ums in 1.34 sec

Peridinium

Flagella

Pellicle

Transverse Flagella

•Measurements: 46.44216 ums•Phylum: pyrrophyta•Uses flagella for movement•Shimmer with blue light (luminescent)•No histones

Plasmodium

Nucleus•Measurement: 14.36728 ums•Malaria• Phylum: Sporozoa•Doesn’t move independently (parasite)

RadiolariaPseudopod

Inner Shell

Outer Shell

Spines

•Measurement: 394.26369 ums•Phylum Sarcodina•Pseudopods•Amoebid movement•Zooplankton

Spirostonium

Cilia

Cell Membrane

Contractile Vacuole

Nucleus

•Measurement: 40.9 ums•Phylum: ciliophora• uses cilia for movement•Free living ( not parasites or symbionts)

Sphacelaria

Chlorophyll

Nucleus

Cell Wall

• Measurements: 453.353672319 ums•Phylum: phaeophyta•Chlorophyll a and c•Spread by spores•Fucoxanthin and chlorophyll is dark yellow•Largest and most complex algae

SpirogyraSpiral Chloroplasts

Nucleus

Going through conjugation

Tube of conjugation

•Measurements: Prepared= 311.05235 ums, Live= 818.08760 ums•Phylum: chlorophyta•Chlorophyll a and b•Moves using flagella (colonial) filaments

Stentor

Nucleus

Food Vacuole

Cilia

Lysosomes

Cytoplasm

•Measurement: prepared = 209.11555 ums, live = 510.26376 ums•Phylum: ciliophora•Uses cilia for movement•Free living

Termite Flagellates

•Measurements: 187.6 ums•Phylum: Axostylata•Anaerobic•Movement by flagella

Trichomonas

•Measurement: 70.53011•Metamonada phylum•Parasite•Movement by flagella•Causes disease in birds and was found in the jaws of tyrannosaurus rexes

Trypanosoma

Nucleus

Flagella

Undulating membrane

•Measurement: 174.8676 ums•Phylum: zoomastigina•Movement by flagella•African sleeping sickness

VolvoxDaughter colony

Mature colony

Flagella

•Measurement: Prepared= 378.09290 ums, Live= 121.23340 ums•Colonies of 500-5000 connected by cytoplasm•Phylum: chlorophyta•Chlorophyll a and b•Moves using flagella•Alteration of generations

VorticellaCilia

Stalk

Food balls

Macronucleus

Disc

• Measurement: 388.82788 ums•Movement by cilia•phylum ciliophora, free-living