BIO 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Meristem, Oogamy, Chloroplast

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Giardia has two nuclei but no mitochondria; the nucleus therefore came before the mitochondria. Although unicellular to multicellular, protists are highly complex & can have complex life cycles. Plasmodial slime molds are usually amoeboid; during drought, they produce a sporangium. Protists use asexual reproduction and, when conditions become stressful, sexual reproduction. Formation of spores allows free-living and parasitic protists to survive hostile environments. A cyst is a dormant cell with a resistant outer covering. Amoeboids and ciliates are more complex, with organelles not seen among other eukaryotes. Food is digested in food vacuoles & excess water is expelled by contractile vacuoles. Some are of great medical importance in causing disease; others are ecologically important. Plankton float near the surface and serve as food for heterotrophic protists and animals. Plankton that photosynthesize produce much of the oxygen in the atmosphere. Many protists enter symbiotic relationships; coral reefs rely on symbiotic photosynthetic protists.

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