Protists

Kingdom of life that includes a diversity of species that cannot be neatly put into the animal or plant kingdom.

• Fungi

• Protists

• Bacteria

Animal-like protists. Like animals, they can move and are consumers of other organisms.

• Algae

• Protozoans

• Mildew

Plant-like protists. Like plants, their cells contain chloroplasts and can do photosynthesis to produce food.

• Algae

• Protozoans

• Bacteria

Uses pseudopods to move and eat.

• Amoeba

• Paramecium

• Euglena

• Volvox

Lives in colonies that contain thousands of cells.

• Amoeba

• Paramecium

• Euglena

• Volvox

Can be either a producer or a consumer, depending on conditions.

• Amoeba

• Paramecium

• Euglena and Volvox

Moves and feeds using many hairlike cilia that cover the entire cell and row in unison.

• Amoeba

• Paramecium

• Euglena

• Volvox

These are protozoans. This means they are animal-like in that they are consumers only. They do not have chloroplasts and must eat other things.

• Amoeba and volvox

• Paramecium and euglena

• Euglena and volvox

• Amoeba and paramecium

These are green algae. They are plant-like protists because their cells contain chloroplasts with chlorophyll that can absorb sunlight to produce food.

• Volvox and euglena

• Volvox and paramecium

• Volvox and amoeba

• Euglena only

A whiplike structure used to move the cells of euglena, volvox, and certain other microscopic cells.

• Cilia

• Flagellum (flagella = more than one)

• Cytoplasm