Protista - Encyclopedia.com
2018年6月27日 · Protista A kingdom (superkingdom Eukarya) comprising single-celled eukaryotes that are neither animals (developing from a blastula) nor plants (developing from an embryo). Animal-like members include naked and shelled amoebas, foraminiferans, zooflagellates, and ciliates; plant-like members include dinoflagellates, diatoms, and algae.
Protists | Encyclopedia.com
Protists The kingdom Protista is the most diverse of all the five Eukaryotic kingdoms. There are more than 200,000 known species of protists with many more yet to be discovered. Protists can be found in countless colors, sizes, and shapes. They inhabit just about any area where water is found some or all of the time.
Algae - Encyclopedia.com
2018年6月11日 · They are classified as protista. Another group, the blue-green algae, is the cyanobacteria. Some authorities do not consider the blue-green algae to be true algae because they are prokaryotes, not eukaryotes. Green Algae. Green algae are the algae most closely related to plants.
Euglenophyta - Encyclopedia.com
2018年5月29日 · Euglenophyta (yōō´glənŏf´ətə), small phylum (division) of the kingdom Protista [1], consisting of mostly unicellular aquatic algae [2]. Most live in freshwater; many have flagella and are motile.
Ciliophora - Encyclopedia.com
2018年5月11日 · Ciliophora (sĬl´ē-ŏf´ərə), phylum in the kingdom Protista [1] consisting of the ciliates, or ciliophores, complex freshwater or saltwater protozoans [2] that swim by the coordinated beating of their cilia—short, hairlike structures that cover the cell surface.
Prokaryotae | Encyclopedia.com
Besides the kingdom Prokaryotae, there are the Protista (eukaryotic organisms' organisms that have a nucleus enclosed in a well-defined membrane), Fungi, Animalia (eukaryotes organized into complex organisms), and Plantae.
Amoeba - Encyclopedia.com
2018年5月29日 · Organisms referred to by the term “ amoeba ” belong to the Domain Eukarya, Kingdom Protista, Subkingdom Protozoa, which almost exclusively includes single-celled eukaryotes that get nutrition from other organisms. Amoebas belong to the class Sarcodina, which has as its principle-distinguishing feature the presence of pseudopodia.
Protist - Encyclopedia.com
In a 5-kingdom system of classification protists were grouped as a kingdom, Protista; later some multicellular organisms with protist affinities but previously classed as fungi or plants were transferred into the Protista and the name of the kingdom was changed to Protoctista, although the new name is little used.
Mastigophora - Encyclopedia.com
2018年5月23日 · Mastigophora Mastigophora is a division of single-celled protozoans. There are approximately 1,500 species of Mastigophora.
Sporozoa - Encyclopedia.com
2018年5月18日 · Sporozoa The fifth Phylum of the Protist Kingdom, known as Apicomplexa, gathers several species of obligate intracellular protozoan parasites classified as Sporozoa or Sporozoans, because they form reproductive cells known as spores.