protazoa

• for characteristics

  • eukaryotic
  • single-celled ( unicellular)
  • no cell wall
  • mobility - almost all are able to move due to cilia, flagella or pseudopodia
• examples of protozoa

  • amoeba
  • paramecium
  • trypanosoma
• • they require moist environments to live
  • most are free-living and harmless
  • very few are pathogens
  • some are parasitic- they live in other plants, animals and humans - cause malaria
• what is the protozoa motile feeding stage called?


  trophozoite
• what is the protozoa hardy sleeping stage called ?


  cysts