ZOOLOGY STUDY GUIDE - Ye. O. Nevedomska - 2013

LECTURE 6. SUBKINGDOM PROTOZOA, OR UNICELLULAR ORGANISMS Protozoa

Outline

1. General characteristics of Protozoa, or Unicellular Organisms.

2. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE main phyla of Protozoa.

Key Concepts: autotrophic Nutrition, heterotrophic nutrition, pinocytosis, phagocytosis, schizogony, conjugation, copulation, chromatophores, stigma, pellicle, contractile vacuole, pseudopodia, food vacuole, paramylon.



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