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Handout - Protist Classification Worksheet

The document is a worksheet for classifying different groups of protists based on a phylogenetic tree. It contains 27 statements about various protist groups and lineages that students are asked to match to the correct branches on the phylogenetic tree. The statements cover a wide diversity of protists, from algae and seaweeds to decomposers and parasites that cause diseases in animals and plants. The goal is for students to learn about the evolutionary relationships and characteristics of different protist lineages based on the provided phylogenetic tree.

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Handout - Protist Classification Worksheet

The document is a worksheet for classifying different groups of protists based on a phylogenetic tree. It contains 27 statements about various protist groups and lineages that students are asked to match to the correct branches on the phylogenetic tree. The statements cover a wide diversity of protists, from algae and seaweeds to decomposers and parasites that cause diseases in animals and plants. The goal is for students to learn about the evolutionary relationships and characteristics of different protist lineages based on the provided phylogenetic tree.

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Biological Principles II Name _____________________________________

Protist Classification Worksheet

is phylogenetic tree tentatively outlines the evolution of various groups of eukaryotes. Most are
informally called protists. Protists are a diverse collection of eukaryotes, simple to complex, with
varying lifestyles. Review the types of protists by matching each statement with the correct
branch(es) of the phylogenetic tree. Some answers are used more than once, and some questions
have multiple answers.

_______________ ree groups of organisms that are not protists


_______________ is group gets its name from the green flagellate Euglena
_______________ ese three groups of organisms make up the stramenopiles
_______________ ree kinds of protists that decompose organic matter
_______________ Can be green single cells, balls or strands of cells, or complex multicellular
organisms

_______________ e names of these three groups suggest that they are related to fungi, but
they are not

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_______________ Fungus-like protists that decompose dead plants and animals in the water
_______________ Mostly free-living protists that move by means of cilia
_______________ Kelps
_______________ ese three groups move via lobe-shaped extensions called pseudopodia
_______________ Algae characteristic of warm coastal tropical waters
_______________ You may see Paramecium, a representative of this group, in lab
_______________ Five groups of protists containing organisms informally known as “algae”
_______________ Close relatives of plants
_______________ ese three groups are called alveolates, named for sacs under their
membranes

_______________ Algae with complex, glassy, silica cell walls


_______________ Seaweeds are in these three groups
_______________ A flagellate in this group causes sleeping sickness
_______________ e largest and most complex algae
_______________ Blooms of these organisms, called "red tides," can poison fish and people
_______________ Two groups that exist part-time as individual cells and part-time as large
"blobs”

_______________ Giardia, an intestinal parasite, is in this group


_______________ Animal parasites that cause diseases such as malaria
_______________ Some are serious plant parasites, such as the organism that causes potato
blight

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