BI256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Axoneme, Filopodia, Cilium

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Lecture 4 -unicellular eukaryotes: protozoan groups jan. 11, 17. White cliffs of dover ancient deposit of foraminifera (testate amoeba) 250,000 protozoan species: protozoans defy tidy classification, plant-animal distinction not easily made, despite apparent simplicity, protozoans are as complex as any metazoan, few other groups rival protozoans in economic importance. Ave at least 1 motile stage in life cycle. Many lifestyles (free living, symbiotic : mutualistic, commenesalistic, parasitic) All types of nutrition: autotrophic, but most heterotrophic. Reproduction asexually by fission, budding and cysts or sexually by conjugation. Can survive only within narrow environmental ranges. Protozoa: once considered one phylum, recently shown that there are at least seven or more phyla, may be more than 60 exclusive eukaryotic clades (cid:862)protozoa(cid:863, now used informally without implying phyletic relationship. Endoplasm: contains nucleus and cytoplasmic organelles, appears granular. Ectoplasm: more transparent hyaline, contains bases of cilia or flagella, often more ridged. Mode of nutrition often variable and opportunistic.

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