Kingdom Habitat - Primarily Aquatic / Unicellular eukaryotes, have well-defined nucleus and Movement - either flagella or cilia
Protista membrane bound organelles Reproduction - by asexually or sexually (cell fusion and zygote
Not well-defined boundary ( resemblance with plants+fungi+animals) formation)
Plant like Fungi like Animal like protistans
Classes Chrysophytes Dinoflagellates Euglenoids Slime moulds Protozoans
and all are heterotrophs
Features primitive relatives of animals
Commonly Jewels of plant Fire alage or Connecting link Saprophytic protists Amoeboid Flagellated Ciliated Sporozoans
called as Kingdom armoured between Plants
algae and animals
Habitat Aquatic - Marine Aquatic - Aquatic - Fresh Terrestrial - Decaying Aquatic - Free living or Aquatic Inside host as
and Fresh water Marine water twig and leaves Marine and inside host (ACTIVE parasites
(Mostly) (Majority) fresh water. organisms movement)
Stagnant water Marine forms
have silica
shells.
Terrestrial -
Moist soil
Movement Microscopic, Two flagella- Two flagella - Flagella - Absent Flagella - One flagella Have CILIA —
PASSIVE floating one One short, one Absent
(PLANKTON) longitudinal, long Cilia show
One coordinated
transverse(in movement
furrow
between wall
plates)
Cell wall Two THIN Stiff plates Absent Present in Spores – – – –
overlapping shells like, made up Instead of cell
like soap box, of wall PELLICLE
made up of SILICA CELLULOSE layer is present,
(indestructible) which makes
the body
FLEXIBLE
Nutrition Autotrophic Autotrophic In presence of Heterotrophic Predator Parasites Predator or Parasites
(Photosynthetic) (Photosyntheti sunlight- (Saprophytic-depending (Amoeba (Trypanosoma parasites (Plasmodium
c) Autotrophic on dead and decaying capture prey causes which causes
(Photosynthetic twigs and leaves) by falsefeet or sleeping Have a malaria)
Have yellow, ) pseudopodia) sickness) cavity
green, brown, (gullet) that
blue, red Have pigments Life cycle Parasites Opens
pigments similar to higher Favourable condition - (Entamoeba) outside the
plants form Plasmodium - body
aggregation of cells
In absence of which can grow several
sunlight- feet
Heterotrophic
(Predator) Unfavourable conditions
- Plasmodium
differentiates forming
fruiting bodies which
produce spores (have
true walls)
Spores are highly
resistant, survive for
many years and carried
by air currents
Use/ Use - Harm - red Help in decomposition
Harm Diatomaceous Dinoflagellates
earth (cell wall (Gonyaulax)
depositions over causes Red
billions of years) - tides - toxins
gritty in nature , kill marine
used for Filtration animals
of oils and syrups
and polishing
Diatoms -
Chief producers in
ocean
Examples Desmids Gonyaulax Euglena Physarium Amoeba Trypanosoma Paramoeci Plasmodium
Diatoms (Golden um
alage)