Kingdom Protista Internet Lab Name:

Go to http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/x_smal1.html

Click on Ciliates

1.  What are ciliates?

2.  Name three species of ciliates.

3.  What are trichocysts?

4.  How do ciliates usually multiply?

5.  How do humans use cilia inside our bodies?

6.  What is the function of cilia in ciliates?

7.  What structures do they have to store food?

8.  What do contractile vacuoles do?

9.  Which protists has a trichocyst?

10.  Why can trichocysts be considered survival structures?

11.  What structures act like muscles in some protists?

12.  What are the different types of cilia and functions of different cilia on protists?

13.  What shape is the stentor?

14.  Why are green stentors so special?

15.  How do ciliates reproduce?

Click on Amoebas

1.  How does an amoeba move?

2.  What’s another name for pseudopods?

3.  What are some other functions of pseudopods?

4.  How does an amoeba eat?

5.  How does an amoeba reproduce?

6.  Why can some amoeba get so large?

SCROLL THROUGH THE SUN ANIMALCULES SECTION AND DOWN TO THE LAST SECTION

7.  Where do some amoebas get their “shell” from?

8.  What is the name of this shell?

9.  What structure of the amoeba is now altered due to shell formation?

Click on Diatoms

1.  Diatoms have cell walls made of ______, almost like a glasshouse.

2.  What color are they usually?

3.  What process can diatoms go through because they have chloroplast?

4.  How are the two types of diatoms different?

5.  When and where do diatoms bloom?

6.  If you want to study them, how can you get some?

7.  What are the yellow-brown things in the picture?

8.  How do diatoms move?

9.  How do some diatoms arrange themselves after they divide?

Click on Flagellated Protozoa

1.  What scientific name is given to the flagella?

2.  Protists are not the only organisms that use flagella. What human cell uses flagella for locomotion?

3.  What structure is analogous to flagella in ciliates?

4.  In addition to flagella for movement, how else can flagella move?

5.  Go down to Euglena. Where is the energy stored in?

6.  What can happen to the habitat that the Euglena lives in?

7.  What does the contractile vacuole do?

8.  What is the red eyespot used for?

9.  What is the connection between termites and flagellated protists?

10.  What are some characteristics of the dinoflagellates that make them

special?

FUNGI

Go to: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fungi/fungi.html

Read the first page and answer the questions below:

1.  What are four diseases caused by Fungi?

2.  Why are fungal diseases so difficult to treat?

3.  Which fungus is considered a “model organism” in laboratory research?

Scroll down to the choices in boxes at the bottom of the page.

Click on “Life History and Ecology” and answer the following questions:

1.  What is the name of the fungi that has lost the capacity for sexual reproduction? (Hint: examples include athlete’ foot and fungus in bleu cheese.)

2.  What is the function of the digestive enzymes secreted by hyphae?

3.  What do saprophytes helps to remove?

4.  Summarize the importance of mycorrhizae fungi to land plants.