BIO153H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 29: Asexual Reproduction, Opisthokont, Heterokont

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The term protist refers to all eukaryotes that are not land plants, fungi, or animals. Protists are multicellular in both haploid and diploid phases of life cycle. They represent some, but not all, of the descendants of a single common ancestor. There is no trait found in protists that is not found in other organisms. Protists tend to live in environments where they are surrounded by water. 3 reasons why protists are studied: they are important medically, they are important ecologically, they are critical to understanding the evolution of plants, fungi, and animals. Three major infectious diseases currently affecting world: tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus (hiv, malaria. Malaria is caused by a protist specifically, by four species in the eukaryotic lineage called apicomplexa. Malaria ranks as the world"s most chronic public health problem. Four species of the protist plasmodium are capable of parasitizing humans. Infections start when plasmodium cells enter a person"s bloodstream during a mosquito bite.

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