Protists

Protist Kingdom

Illustration of protozoan diversity includes single-celled didinium, paramecium, stentor, difflugia, trypanasoma, carchesium, euglena and amoeba.

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This is a 3:12 minute HD dramatic video choreographed to powerful music, which introduces the viewer to the microscopic kingdom of the Protists. It is designed as…

This is the fourth in the series of images of some of the organisms found in just a few drops of water collected from a pond in a disused quarry on the edge of the moors in Weardale. An amoeba. I could spend a long time watching these - it's rather relaxing watching an organism whose motto for life must be 'go with the flow' It seems to have ingested a wide varieties of objects. This is one of the free-swimming ploimate rotifers, with tails that look like scissors - possibly Monommata…

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A protist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, plant, or fungus. While it is likely that protists share a common ancestor ,[3] the exclusion of other eukaryotes means that protists do not form a natural group, or clade.[a] Therefore, some protists may be more closely related to animals, plants, or fungi than they are to other protists. However, like the groups algae, invertebrates, and protozoans, the biological category protist is used for convenience. Others classify any…

Images and taxonomic descriptions of Phacus (Euglenales or Euglenida, Euglenophyceae, Mastigophora)

Media Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BzN0eVehd0t/ Here is a single cell ciliate in the genus Frontonia. This microbe is full of items it has consumed, including algae and a large strand of Cyanobacteria. The cell is under polarized light and appears to glow. This microbe is half a millimeter in length. From a freshwater pond, 200x DIC. #ciliate #protist #protozoa #microbe #algae #cyanobacteria ( 📷 @microbialecology ) #educationscience #education #science #diy #diy project

Paramecium is a unicellular organism with shape resembling the sole of a shoe. It ranges from 50 to 300um in size which varies from species to species.