Protists are:

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Protists are

• Eukaryotes that arent fungi, plants or animals
• Most diverse kingdom (over 200,000 species)
• First eukaryotes (1.5 billion years ago)

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Most Protists

• Are unicellular
• Live in water

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Animallike Protists

• Move using flagella, cillia or pseudopod
• Eat (heterotrophs)
• Cause diseases like malaria, amebic dysentery,
  and African Sleeping Sickness

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animation of an amoeba eating
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Plantlike Protists

• Are unicellular algae
• Perform photosynthesis
• Make most of earths oxygen
• Key part of many marine food chains

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Funguslike Protists

• Are heterotrophs (eat)
• Are decomposers
• Water Molds Caused the Great Potato Famine in
  1845 and 1846 that led many Irish immigrants to
  the U.S.

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