Protists
By: Peyton Leininger
Amoeba
- How does it move? ----> It move's by their bodies forming pseudopods.
- How does it get food? ----> They eat surrounding pieces of food with their pseudopods.
- How does it Reproduce? ----> They reproduce asexually by binary fission it divides itself into two.
- How do they Respond? ----> They can create a cyst, a cyst is a hard walled body that can survive for a long period of time.
Paramecium
How does it get its food? ----> It uses its cilla and feeds on microorganisms like bacteria and algae and yeast.
How does it reproduce? ----> It reproduces by sexual and asexual reproduction they usually reproduce under stress.
How does it respond? -----> It responds by eating a lot of bacteria matter.
Euglena
How does it get its food? ----> it gets its food by its chloroplasts to make photosynthesis
How does it reproduce? ----> They need warmer temperatures to reproduce.
How does it respond? It responds by absorbing light to make enough food from photosynthesis.
Volvox
How does it get food? ----> They have chloroplasts.
How does it reproduce? ----> They have Daughter colonies that are small dark green circles and they burst and then reproduce and this cycle repeats.
How does it respond? ----> it responds by being seen by bigger colonies?