what is a protist?
the name protist mean " the very first." they are eukaryotes because they have a nucleus and most of them have a mitochondria. there are many types of protists one being an amoeba, an amoeba is a single celled organism, some can grow to be a millimeter across. They live in pounds near the bottem, they are well known for the way they move they push themselves forwaord with there cytoplasm and they have no fixed shape. vorticella The single celled verticella attaches itself to a plant, so it is not able to move around still they are able to consume a lot of food, they have little cili on each side that creates a whirlppol type thing that brings in orgainc material. The veritcella's stalk can can coil and uncoil if needed. Euglena is very small about the size of a humans red blood cell. if there are many of these organisms it can turn the pond water green, but they also have animal like charactoristics, because it preforms photosynthesis it needs ligth and it uses a tail like thing called a fagellum to propel itself. Paramecium feed on bacteria and small protists, they look furry because they tiny cili around there whole body. They move together and this is how the paramecium moves, it is able to move four times its length in a second. Volvox can form large colonies, each of them have two flagella and this is what makes them move. Daughter colonies can sometimes be seen in parent colonies. they can preform photosynthesis.
The websight i was one was very helpful and made it easy to do this assignment, becasue it was a video so there were pictures of each organism and a discription about them. the amoeba looks like an egg being cooked, my favoret out of all of these is th Euglena because i think it looks like a mouse. i didnt no there were so many diffrent types of protists i thought there was only one. its cool how they can move from there fagellum or fagellas the way they can move them all at the same time so it prepels them threw the water.
