Lesson 3

• Protists are organisms that doesn't classify as plants, animals, and fungi
• Protists are eukaryotic organisms
• The kingdom Protista includes protists such as algae, protozoa, slime molds, water molds, and diatoms.
• Protozoa is an animal like protists
• Algae are plant like protists
• Amoebas are the finger like protist with indefinite shape
• Trypanosoma are protists with flat and elongated body
• Plasmodium is a protist who lacks locomotor skills and has an indefinite shape
• Paramecium is the protist with a slipper shape
• Malaria is transmitted through mosquitos
• Thallus is the body of a multicellular alga
• Green algae is also known as Halimeda
• Brown Algae is also known as Sargassum
• Red Algae is also known as Porphyra
• The two types of fungi like protists are Cellular Slime Molds and Plasmodial Slime Molds