Protists


 * __Protists:__ Transport, Excretion, Respiration, Regulation, Nutrition, Reproduction, Development**



//This Amoeba is a flexible active Protist that is able to move freely by using Pseudopods and is in the phylum Sarcodine.//


 * **To gain nutrition and energy the amoeba takes in prey with its pseudopod by surrounding their meal. Then it is able to digest the meal in its food vacuole.**
 * **They would normally snack on particles of food and even other cells.**
 * **An amoeba is able to reproduce asexually by mitosis annd cytokinesis, which will result in an exact copy of its DNA in the offspring.**

__Check out this link for the structure of a paramecium__ : http://www.vcbio.science.ru.nl/public/Final-Images/IL_Final512m_eng001-050/IL007_512m_engProtozoaCiliophoraParameciumPantoffeldiertje.jpg


 * **The Paramecium uses cilia for transportation which act like oars. They beat in a regular pattern, to create movement**
 * **For food intake, Paramecium can also use its cilia, to pull the prey into its oral groove and then its gullet. The food then becomes a food vacuole and is digested.**
 * **Paramecium produces asexually as well, by __binary fission__ (Pg. 475 in Biology book) and also __conjugation__ (Pg. 502 in Biology book)**



This Plasmodium is a parasitic protist and is in the phylum Sporozoan.


 * **Trypanosoma and Plasmodium are parasitic**
 * **The Plasmodium moves by the flow of blood in an organism, the trypanosoma uses flagella**
 * **Plasmodium reproduce by spores asexually ; Trypanosoma by Meiosis sexually**

//Seaweed (Phaeophyta) can be used for toothpaste and even pudding//


 * Algae**
 * [[image:Volvox.jpg width="310" height="256" align="right"]]**All algae are autotrophic**
 * **Euglena, Chlorophyta - benefit Food web**
 * **The volvox at the right is a colonial algae**
 * **Diatoms - most abundant**
 * **Pyrrophyta - red tide, food poisoning**
 * **Rhodophyta - argar, coral reefs**
 * **Phaeophyta - food alginates, ice cream and pudding**
 * **Algae consists of Euglenophyta, Bacillariophyta, Pyrrophyta, Rhodophyta, Phaeophyta, and Chlorophyta**

Try this on for size: Everyone (Euglenophyta) Bought (Bacillariophyta) Plenty of (Pyrrophyta) Red (Rhodophyta) Pinnapple (Phaeophyta) Cups (Chlorophyta)**
 * Want a quick simple way to remember those phylum?