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Protists
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Origin of Eukaryotes
  • Oldest eukaryotes date back 1.5 billion years - after O2 accumulated in the atmosphere
  • Models of Eukaryotic origins
    • Endomembrane system
    • Serial Endosymbiosis model for plastids
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Endosymbiotic origins of Eukaryotes
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"Endosymbiosis in Eucaryotic Evolution"
  • Endosymbiosis in Eucaryotic Evolution
  • The diversity of plastids in many groups of algae suggests that “endosymbiosis” may have played an important roll in the evolution of the “protist” groups.
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"Primary endosymbiosis"
  • Primary endosymbiosis
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"Secondary and Tertiary Endosymbyosis"
  • Secondary and Tertiary Endosymbyosis
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Exploring the diversity of the Protista
  • Your text presents one “hypothesis”, 5 “supergroups” of protists
  • Excavata
  • Chromalveolata
  • Rhizaria
  • Archaeplastida
  • Unikonta
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Excavata
  • Members of this group have an “excavated” grove on one side of the cell body.
  • Includes the Diplomonads, Parablstids, and the Euglenozoans.
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Diplomonads and Parabasalids
  • These two clades lack plastids
  • Their mitochondria do not have DNA, electron transport chains or the enzymes needed for the citric acid cycle.
  • Most are anarobic
  • Parasites
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"Diplomonads"
  • Diplomonads
  • Giardia intestinalis




  • Parabasalids
  • Trichomonas vaginalis
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Euglenozoans
  • Predatory heterotrophs, photosynthetic autotrophs and pathogenic parasites
  • Unique flagella structure
    • Spiral or crystalline rod structure inside the flagella
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Euglenozoa
  • Kinetoplastids
  • One large mitochondria with an organized mass of DNA called a kinetoplast
  • Trypanosoma sp.
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Euglenids
  • Euglena sp.
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Chromalveolates
  • This group originated in an ancient secondary endosymbiosis
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Alveolates
  • All members of this clade have sacs beneath the plasma membrane.
  • Three groups
  • Dinoflagelates
  • Apicomplexans
  • Ciliates
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Alveolates
  • Dinoflagellates
  • Internal plates of cellulose “Theca”


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Alveolates
  • Apicomplexans
    • Parasites that spread through their hosts as tiny infectious cells called “sporozites”.
    • Plasmodium sp. causes malaria.
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Alveolates
  • Plasmodium sp. life cycle
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Alveolates
  • Ciliates
  • All posses cilia
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Stramenopiles
  • Members of this clade have “hairy” flagella
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Stramenopiles
  • Diatoms
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Stramenopiles
  • Chrysophytes (Golden brown algae)



  • Dinobryon sp.
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Stramenopiles
  • Brown algae
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Stramenopiles
  • Laminaria sp. Life cycle
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Stramenopiles
  • Oomycetes – Water molds
  • “Fungal-like Protista”
  • Heterotrophic
  • Intracellular digestion
  • Decomposers
  • Coenocytic hyphae
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Stramenopiles
  • Saprolegnales
  • Saprolegnia sp.


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Stramenopiles
  • Saprolegnia sp.
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Peronosporales
  • Parasites on vascular plants.
  • Powdery Mildews
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Peronosporales
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Rhizaria
  • This group consists of species of amoebas, most of which have pseudopodia that are threadlike in shape.
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Rhizaria
  • Thread-like pseudopodia


  • Foraminifera - calcium carbonate tests


  • Radiolarians - silica tests
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Archaeplastids
  • This group was one of the first groups formed by an early primary endosymbiosis of a photosynthetic cyanophyte.
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"Red and Green algae are..."
  • Red and Green algae are the closest relatives to the land plants.


  • Red Algae
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"Many red algae which contain..."
  • Many red algae which contain phycoerythrin are adapted to live in very deep waters where only the energetic blue wavelengths of light can penetrate.
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"Many red algae species are..."
  • Many red algae species are cultivated and are important foods
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Chlorophyta (Green Algae)
  • This is one of the most morphologically diverse groups of algae.  Unicellular, colonial, motile, non-motile, filamentous, and membranous forms are known.
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"Green algae"
  • Green algae
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"Chlamydomonas sp"
  • Chlamydomonas sp. Life cycle
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"One group of green algae"
  • One group of green algae, the Charophyta, are believed to have given rise the multicellular terrestrial plants.
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Unikonta
  • The Unikonta is a recently proposed supergroup that includes animals, fungi and some protists.
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Amoebozoans
  • Slime Molds
  • Plasmodial slime molds
  • Physarum polycephalum



  • Cellular slime molds
  • Dictostelium sp.
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"Physarum polycephalum life cycle"
  • Physarum polycephalum life cycle
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"Physarum polycephalum"
  • Physarum polycephalum
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"Dictyostelium sp"
  • Dictyostelium sp. Life cycle
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"Dictyostelium sp"
  • Dictyostelium sp.
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Amoebozoans
  • Gymnamoebas - move by the use of lobe-shaped pseudopodia