What are examples of zooflagellates?
Diplomonad
Retortamonad
Zooflagellate/Lower classifications
What do zooflagellates do?
Zooflagellates assimilate organic material by osmotrophy (absorption through the plasma membrane) or phagotrophy (engulfing prey in food vacuoles). The zooflagellate’s flexible pellicle (envelope) is sufficiently thin in certain genera to permit pseudopodal projections.
What does a Phytoflagellate look like?
phytoflagellate Applied to Protozoa that usually bear one or two flagella, often contain chloroplasts, and that therefore resemble plants, so they are often classified as algae. Most are free-living. Compare ZOOFLAGELLATE.
How do zooflagellates move?
Zooflagellates are a third type of protists. They are animal-like and move by using flagella. Flagella are whip-like structures that spin quickly, working like a boat’s propeller to move the organism through water. Most zooflagellates have from one to eight flagella that help them move.
What are symbiotic zooflagellates?
Zooflagellates have one or more flagella but do not have plastids or cell walls. A few are mutualistic, such as those that live in the guts of termites and aid the bacteria present in breaking down wood.
What is the difference between euglena and zooflagellates?
Euglena are not the only organisms that have flagellum. Zooflagellates are protozoa that also have flagella.
How are Phytoflagellates defined?
noun, plural: phytoflagellates. Any of the plant-like flagellates that contain chlorophyll and capable of photosynthesis. Supplement. These flagellates are named for their plant-like features: photosynthetic, and the presence of chlorophyll and other pigments.
What are Phytoflagellate?
phytoflagellate, any member of a group of flagellate protozoans that have many characteristics in common with typical algae. Some contain the pigment chlorophyll and various accessory pigments and have a photosynthetic type of nutrition, although many organisms included in this group exhibit heterotrophy or mixotrophy.
How do zooflagellates reproduce?
Like many protists, zooflagellates primarily reproduce asexually by binary fission.
How are zooflagellates different from other protozoans?
One convenient way to categorize protozoans is by how they move. Some move rapidly, while others creep slowly. Still others are not capable of active movement at all, but instead rely on a host organism to supply their food. Zooflagellates (zoh oh FLAJ uh lits) move by means of one or more flagella.
Are zooflagellates unicellular or multicellular?
They are single-celled, heterotrophic eukaryotes and may form symbiotic relationships with other organisms, including Trichomonas.
Are zooflagellates Heterotrophs or Autotrophs?
Mastigophora (or flagellates) were further divided into the zooflagellates (heterotrophs) and phytoflagellates (photosynthetic autotrophs).