Protist
By: Tim Porter
Euglena
How it eats: Makes it's own food by photosynthesis and absorbs food through the cell membrane.
How it reproduces: Splits itself in half to create two Euglena. (Asexual).
How it responds to its environment: It has a red eyespot that detects light, if it doesn't get light it dies.
Amoeba
How it eats: They eat algae, bacteria, plant cells, microscopic protozoa, and metazoa, some amoebas are parasites.
How it reproduces: Asexually by binary fission.
How it responds to environment: Water from the surrounding environment flows through the amoeba's ectoplasm. When conditions are low it turns into eyst.
Paramecium
How it moves: It moves by the cilia.
How it reproduces: It is capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction, Conjugation.
How it responds to environment: It has the shape of the bottom of a shoe and it shoots out trichocyst when attacked.
Volvox
How it moves: Each volvox has two Flagella. The flagellar beat together and roll in water.
How it reproduces: When the daughter colonies are mature. The parent ball bursts open.
How it responds to environment: It is a motile algal colony composed of 500 to 50,000 cells.