Phylum Ciliophora - Ciliates
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Phylum Ciliophora - ciliates paramecium2.gif paramecium3.jpg Pellicle is a cell membrane with alveoli. Oral groove, cytostome, cytopharynx, food vacuole, cytoproct – for digestion. Contractile vacuole for osmoregulation. (It pumps out water. Think of how osmosis works and why a freshwater protest would need one.) Some ciliates have reduced ciliature cirrus (-i) are tufts of cilia and/or modified cilia. fused to form leg-like structures. Stentor Euplotes Vorticella Membranelles are rows of cilia fused to form sheet-like structures. Cilia and flagella have similar internal structure. 9 + 2 arrangement of microtubules. 9 fused pairs of microtubules on the outside of a cylinder, plus 2 unfused microtubules in the center. Dynein "arms" attached to the microtubules serve as the molecular motors. Flagella (longer and less numerous ) undulate, while cilia (shorter and usually more numerous) move in an oar-like fashion. phylum Bacillariophyta - diatoms The cell wall is a 2-part, silicious frustule. One valve fits inside the other. When cells divide, each daughter cell forms a new valve to fit inside the old one, so some cells are smaller. They get smaller and smaller until, at 1/3 original size, they reproduce sexually and return to full size. These unusual algae (photosynthetic) occurred in large numbers in the past (blooms) in places where their remnant frustules formed layers of diatomaceous earth (now used as water filters and polishing compounds, including tooth paste.) phylum Phaeophyta – brown algae these marine algae are often very large, like kelp and sargassum, and have a simple, multicellular form. They have zones of growth, called meristems. phylum Rhodophyta – red algae are deep-water, marine macroalgae. Their pigments are suitable for deep water. Some are edible and provide useful products, like carrageenan (used in ice cream), nori, and agar. Ameboid protozoa Amebas – with and without tests (shell-like structures) Pseudopods are used for movement and phagocytosis Lobopodia are blunt and lobe-like. Pseudopod movement involves a thick ectoplasm and a thin flowing endoplasm. Cytoskeletons break down and rebuild as one converts to the other. phylum Gymnamoeba “naked” amoebae, without tests. Some are parasitic and some are free-living. phylum Radiolaria axopodia and silicious tests with perforations. Axopodia are pseudopods reinforced with microtubules – stiff and needle-like. phylum Foraminifera reticulopodia and chambered, calcareous tests. Reticulopodia are threadlike and branching pseudopods. Ancient oozes of foraminifera formed the White Cliffs of Dover and pink sands of Bermuda. Some of them are the largest protists ever lived. phylum Myxomycota – plasmodial slime molds The body form is a plasmodium – a multi-nucleate mass of protoplasm complex life cycles include spore formation phylum Chlorophyta – green algae cell walls and chloroplasts solitary or colonial phylum Choanoflagellata collar cells adapted for filter-feeding a collar of microvilli and a single flagellum These protists are more closely related to Animalia than any other group. They are considered to be a sister group of kingdom Animalia..