01:146:328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Amoebic Liver Abscess, Amoebiasis, Cleavage Furrow
18 Mar 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Final exam thursday december 17 8:30am 10:00am at livingston rec center. Has membrane bound nucleus, membrane bound organelles. Heterotrophs (can"t make their own food), instead obtain organic recourses from the environment (relying on other organisms) Found in every environment (marine, soil, fresh water, parasites) Classification: 4 phyla: rhizopoda, metamonada, ciliophora, apicomplexa. Amoebae use this for locomotion and food acquisition. Actin and myosin proteins make up pseudopodia. This class requires a substrate/surface to move around (don"t swim in a. It is a temporary extensions of plasma membrane and cytoplasm liquid: flagella. Trophozoite stage one or more flagella. Axoneme embedded in flagellum for support. Basal body or blepharoplast or kinetosome function: anchor the flagella: cilia. Numerous: mitochondria, present in some species, absent in others, aerobic respiration happens here. Distribution of chromosomal material varies among species. It is a nucleolus; contains rna and genes for ribosome synthesis. Endosome is either small or large, centric or eccentric helps in identification.
