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There are many plant-like protists, such as algae, that get their energy from sunlight through photosynthesis. Some of the fungus-like protists, such as the slime molds (Figure below), decompose decaying matter. The animal-like protists must "eat" or ingest food.
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Jinwei Piles
ExplainerDo protists need oxygen?
Mitochondria require oxygen. Protists that live in environments without oxygen—for instance, in black muds or inside the digestive tract of animals—generally do not have mitochondria, and they create cellular energy by processes unique to the kingdom Protista.
Regis Dubos
ExplainerWhat habitat do protists live in?
Habitats of Various Protists
There are over 100,000 described living species of protists. Nearly all protists exist in some type of aquatic environment, including freshwater and marine environments, damp soil, and even snow. Paramecia are a common example of aquatic protists.
Messaouda Veiguela
ExplainerWhat does a protist do?
Protist. A protist (/ˈpro?t?st/) is any eukaryotic organism (one with cells containing a nucleus) that is not an animal, plant or fungus.
Tore Butehorn
ExplainerDo protists need water?
All protists are aquatic meaning they live in the water. In order to use this energy, many protists can move through the water by means of flagella or cilia.
Penelope Vietrich
ExplainerDo all protists have a nucleus?
Protist Kingdom. Although some have multiple cells, most protists are one-celled or unicellular organisms. These cells have a nucleus and are enclosed by a cell membrane. Protists can be very small or up to 100 meters longs.
Leighann Mitterlechner
ExplainerHow do protists benefit humans?
Plant-like protists produce almost one-half of the oxygen on the planet through photosynthesis. Other protists decompose and recycle nutrients that humans need to live. Humans use protists for many other reasons: Many protists are also commonly used in medical research.
Satish Obinu
ExplainerDoes monera have a nucleus?
Monera (includes Eubacteria and Archeobacteria)
Individuals are single-celled, may or may not move, have a cell wall, have no chloroplasts or other organelles, and have no nucleus. Monera are usually very tiny, although one type, namely the blue-green bacteria, look like algae.
Outman Lini
ExplainerWhy do we study protists?
The slime molds are important to ecosystems because they are decomposers, which release vital nutrients back into the environment. You could say life on Earth depends on the protists because they supply us with oxygen, are critical organisms in food chains, and recycle important nutrients for other life forms to use.
Dita Ravandur
ExplainerWhat are 3 examples of protists?
Examples of protists include algae, amoebas, euglena, plasmodium, and slime molds. Protists that are capable of photosynthesis include various types of algae, diatoms, dinoflagellates, and euglena. These organisms are often unicellular but can form colonies.
Ermes Monleon
ExplainerHow do you classify protists?
The protists can be classified into one of three main categories, animal-like, plant-like, and fungus-like. Grouping into one of the three categories is based on an organism's mode of reproduction, method of nutrition, and motility.
Martins Weingart
ExplainerDoes fungi have a nucleus?
Fungi are eukaryotes and have a complex cellular organization. As eukaryotes, fungal cells contain a membrane-bound nucleus where the DNA is wrapped around histone proteins. Pigments in fungi are associated with the cell wall.
Danille Zelaia
ExplainerIs seaweed a protist?
The majority of organisms classified as protists are unicellular though there are a few multicellular organisms. For example, kelp (“seaweed”) is technically a protist even though it is multicellular. Kelp is not grouped with plants, however, because it lacks the cellular complexity present in plant cells.
Apollonia Lanni
ExplainerHow do you get protists?
Protists gain nutrition in a number of ways. According to Simpson, protists can be photosynthetic or heterotrophs (organisms that seek outside sources of food in the form of organic material).
Setsuko Kutoff
ExplainerHow many biological kingdoms are there?
six kingdoms
Temenuzhka Bahl
ExplainerDo protists live in water?
Protists make their homes in aquatic environments such as oceans, ponds, lakes and streams. Protists also live in aquariums and birdbaths. Aquatic environments are ideal for protists, which have cilia and flagella that allow them to move through the water.
Caron Pappalardo
ExplainerWhere can eubacteria live?
Eubacteria live on just about every surface of the earth that is imaginable. Bacteria can be found in deserts, the tropics, the ocean as well as in
Ayara Aven
ExplainerDo archaea have a nucleus?
As you said, Archaea and Bacteria are prokaryotes: that don't have any nucleus nor membrane-bound organelles. B) Archaea cells contain a membrane-bound nucleus; bacteria do not. C) DNA is present in both archaea cells and bacteria cells.
Teresina Arvillaga
ExplainerAre all protists eukaryotic?
Protists are eukaryotes, which means their cells have a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles. Most, but not all, protists are single-celled. You can think about protists as all eukaryotic organisms that are neither animals, nor plants, nor fungi.
Erlene Eikers
ExplainerAre all protists harmful?
Examples of Harmful Protists
But, like any other organism, they can also inflict harm, particularly to humans. Most harmful protists are classified as animal-like protists that act as parasites, or organisms that benefit from causing harm to other organisms. African sleeping sickness is caused by trypanosoma protists.
Hermelo Vedyashkin
ExplainerWhere do animal like protists live?
The Protozoa is often divided into 4 phyla : Amoebalike protists, flagellates, ciliates, and spore-forming protists. B. They are found in fresh and salt water, in soil, and in animals. They have contractile vacuoles to get rid of excess water. B. Some of them live in water.
Ribera Harlashenkov
ExplainerWhy is Protista no longer a kingdom?
Why is "Kingdom Protista" no longer a valid taxonomic grouping? Since all of these organisms are presumed to share a common ancestor, protists as a group would not include all of its descendents thereby making the grouping paraphyletic.
Anjali Angamarca
ExplainerHow do protists eat?
There are many plant-like protists, such as algae, that get their energy from sunlight through photosynthesis. Some of the fungus-like protists, such as the slime molds (Figure below), decompose decaying matter. The animal-like protists must "eat" or ingest food. Some animal-like protists use their "tails" to eat.
Abdelhay Thalemann
ExplainerWhat is another name for protists?
Synonyms. micro-organism protistan division Protista microorganism Protista.
Arantxazu Vellido
ExplainerHow many cells does a monera have?
The Monera Kingdom consists of unicellular lifeforms. Unicellular means that they only have one cell. These cells have no nucleus, and are missing many organelles, or parts, found in other cells.
Barek Sandering
ExplainerCan eubacteria move?
Eubacteria can move freely and an be found everywhere. So they are often Pathogenic, meaning the can move freely. some have a flagellum (flagella singular) it is a long whip-like structure attached to them allowing them to move. The bacteria whips its flagella around to help it move in the correct direction.
Hasmik Avtokratov
ExplainerWhat does monera mean?
Monera (/m?ˈn??r?/) (Greek - μονήρης (mon?rēs), "single", "solitary") is a kingdom that contains unicellular organisms with a prokaryotic cell organization (having no nuclear membrane), such as bacteria. The taxon Monera was first proposed as a phylum by Ernst Haeckel in 1866.
Rada Hansmair
ExplainerWhat protists include?
any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more
Jonatas Ruiz De Gauna
ExplainerWhat diseases do protists cause?
humans sick when they become human parasites. Trypanosoma protozoa cause Chagas disease and sleeping sickness. Giardia protozoa cause giardiasis, and Plasmodium protozoa cause malaria.
Calina Zhabrev
ExplainerHow do protists die?
Interesting Facts about Protists
The disease malaria is caused by the protist Plasmodium falciparum. If an amoeba is cut in half, the half with the nucleus will survive, while the other half will die.
Ziheng Willbrandt
ExplainerHow do protists get water?
Many are found in fresh water, such as lakes, ponds, and streams. Animal-like protists gain their nutrition by ingestion. Freshwater animal-like examples include amoeba, heliozoans, and paramecium. Plant-like protists are forms of algae, and they make their own food through photosynthesis.
Izascun Christie
ExplainerWhere is monera found?
Monera is found in the moist environment. They can be found in hot springs deep oceans, snow and as parasites in organisms.
Lin Marconi
ExplainerDo protists breathe?
Animal like protists use cellular respiration, plant-like protists can use photosynthesis or cellular respiration, and fungi-like protists can use either aerobic or anaerobic respiration. Being unicellular, protists can also simply rely on diffusion. Annelida are both land and water animals.
Atilana Vall
ExplainerHow do protists remove waste?
Excretion. Protists are so small that they do not need any special organs to exchange gases or excrete wastes. They rely on simple diffusion, the passive movement of materials from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration, to move gases and waste materials in and out of the cell.
Roy Wernze
ExplainerWhat are the methods of locomotion used by protists?
Biologists generally categorize protists according to their Mode of movement, or locomotion. All protists can travel through water by one of three methods: cilia, flagella, or pseudo/axopodia.
Ivey Espie
ExplainerHow do protozoa reproduce?
Amoebas and flagellates reproduce via asexual reproduction. The most common form of asexual reproduction used by protozoa is binary fission. In binary fission, the organism duplicates its cell parts and then divides itself into two separate organisms.
Fulgenci Igier
ExplainerIs fungi prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
Bacteria are prokaryotic cells; fungi, protozoa, algae, plants, and animals are composed of eukaryotic cells.
Deeanna Faaber
ExplainerWhat do fungi eat?
Fungi are heterotrophic.
Fungi are not able to ingest their food like animals do, nor can they manufacture their own food the way plants do. Instead, fungi feed by absorption of nutrients from the environment around them.
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