Protists (Kingdom)

Fungi-like

Decomposer

Heterotrophs

They haev cell walls

They use spores to reproduce

Slime Mold

Brightly colored

Live in moist shady places

They can be tiny and very big

Water Molds and Downy Mildew

Most live in water

They grow in tiny threads that look like fuzz

Responsible for the Irish Potato Famine

Animal-like

Heterotroph

Can move to obtain food

Made of cells with a nucleus and no cell wall

unicellular

Sarcodines

feed using pseudopods

Have a Contractile Vacuole

Example- Amoeba

Ciliates

Use Cilia to move and eat

They sweep food to the Ciliates

Example- Paramecium

Flagellates

Move using the Flagella

Can have multiple Flagella

Example- Peranema

Subtopic

Feed on the cells and body fluids of their hosts

Many have more than one host

Example- Plasmodium

Plant-like

Autotroph

Commonly called algae

Some are Unicellular

Some are Multicellular

Algae

Very important in oxygen reproduction

Most live in water

They contain chlorophyll and photosynthesize

Diatoms

Have glass-like cell walls

Float near the surface of lakes and oceans

Move by oozing chemicals out of slits in their cell walls

Used in household insecticides

Dinoflagellates

Unicellular algae surrounded by stiff plates

Come in a variety of colors, may glow in the dark

All have two flagella

Responsible fro red tides

Euglenoids

Green unicellular algae mostly found in pond water

Can be autotrophs and heterotrophs

Use flagella for movement

Red Algae

Multicellular seaweed

Only needs a smalla mount of sunlight

Used in hair conditioner and ice cream

Contains red chlorophyll

Green Algae

Contains green pigment

Unicellular, multicellular, or colonial

Closely related to plants

Brown Algae

Seaweed with many pigments

It has many plant-like structures

Unicellular (mostly), Eukaryotic