Notorious Protists

  1. Trichonyypha (A)
    • good
    • lives in digestive systems of termite
    • helps it digest wood
  2. Phytoplankton (P)
    • good
    • live near surface of ocean and is a food source for marine life
  3. Dinoflagellates (P)
    • good
    • live in coral and provide energy to coral through photosynthesis.
  4. Euglenophytes (P)
    • bad
    • grow in areas of high sewage, and its rapid population growth results in BLOOMS.
  5. Gonyaulax (P)
    • bad
    • produce paralytic toxin
    • shell fish filter out Gonyaulax can build up large amounts and can result -> PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING
  6. Tryanosoma (A)
    • parasites that live in blood of hosts
    • cause African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.
  7. Plasmodium (A)
    • ugly
    • sporozoans that cause malaria.
  8. Entamoeba
    • attack and destroy intestinal walls of infected individual
    • cause Amoebic dysentery.
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Anonymous
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58470
Card Set
Notorious Protists
Description
Biology
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