PROTOZOA
WHAT IS PROTOZOA
Gr.; Protos: first//Zoon: Animal
Heterogeneous Grouping Of Single-Celled Organism.
Protozoa are those animals which consists of single cell that may
be simple. They are microscopic in size. They displays all types of
symmetry great range of structural complexity and adaptation for
all types of environmental conditions. Their evolution parallels that
of multicellular animals and their origin is perhaps polyphyletic.
Infact they are microscopic and acellular animalcules ,without
tissues and organs, having one or more nuclei but no nucleus ever
in charge of specialized part of cytoplasm. They exist either single
or in colonies.
CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA
• Small, Microscopic Animalcules, Ordinarily
not visible without microscope.
• Simples & Most primitive of all animals with
protoplasmic grade of organization.
• Body Unicellular. Containing one or more
Nuclei which are Monomorphic or Dimorphic.
• Solitary or Forming loose colonies in which
individuals remain alike and independent.
CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA
• Body symmetry none , bilateral , radial or
spherical.
• Body naked or bounded by a Pellicle and often
provided with simple shells or exoskeletons.
• Body form usually constant varied in some while
changing with environment or age in many.
• The single cell body performs all essential and vital
activities, which characterized the animal body.
CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA
• Locomotor organelles are finger like
pseudopodia or whip like flagella or hair like
cilia or absent.
• Nutrition holozoic (animal like), holophytic
(plant like), Saprozoic or Parasitic. Digestion
occurs intracellularly inside food vacuoles.
• Respiration & Excretion through general
surface or through contractile vacuoles which
serves mainly for osmoregulation.
CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA
• Reproduction asexual by binary or multiple
fission and budding and sexual by conjugation
of adults (Hologamy) or by fusion of gametes
(syngamy)
• Life history often complicated with alternation
of asexual and sexual phases.
CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA
• Encystment commonly occurs to help in
dispersal as well as to resist unfavorable
conditions of food, temperature and moisture.
• Free living Protozoa mostly aquatic, inhabiting
fresh and sea waters and damp places.
Parasitic and commensal Protozoa live over or
inside the bodies of animals and plants.
Sufficient moistures essential in their
environment.
CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA
• The single celled individual not differentiated
into somatoplasm & germplasm. Therefore ,
exempt from natural death which is the price
paid for the body.
CLASSIFICATION
Phylum:
PROTOZOA
Sub Phylum:
Plasmodroma
Mastigophora Sarcodina Sporozoa Opalinata
Sub Phylum:
Ciliophora
Ciliata
CLASSIFICATION BY
Hyman (1940),Hickman(1961)& Storer (1965)
Plasmodroma
• Simple and primitive
• Locomotion by pseudopodia, flagella or none.
Cilia absent.
• Nucleus reproduction by syngamy
• Asexual reproduction by binary or multiple
fusion.
• Life cycle may include an alternation of
generations.
Ciliophora
• More complex
• Cilia or sucking tentacles present in at least
one stage of life cycle.
• Usually two types of nuclei.
• Sexual reproduction by conjugation.
• Asexual reproduction by binary fusion and
budding.
• No alternation of generations
CLASS: SARCODINA
• Body naked or with internal shells or external
tests.
• With Pseudopodia for locomotion & food
capture.
• Amoeboid during most of life cycle.
• No spore formation, no Conjugation.
• Mostly free living.
Amoeba
Globigerina
Euglypha
Lithocircus
Entamoeba
CLASS: MASTIGOPHORA
• Body covered by thin Pellicle or test of Cellulose,
Chitin or Silica.
• One to many flagella for locomotion & food
capture, some with Pseudopodia.
• Nutrition Autotrophic, Heterotrophic or
Mixotrophic.
• Asexual Reproduction or by Longitudinal fission.
• No spore formation .No Conjugation.
• Free living or Parasitic.
Chrysamoeba
Chrysamoeba
Dinobryon
Euglena
Volvox
CLASS: OPALINATA
• Body uniformly covered by cilia-like flagella in
oblique rows.
• Cytostome absent, Nutrition Saprozoic.
• Nucleus 2 to many , monomorphic or identical.
• Reproduction by binary fission or by gamete
conjugation.
• Endo parasites in cold blooded vertebrates.
CLASS: SPOROZOA
• Body covered with a thick pellicle.
• No locomotory organ , mouth and contractile
vacuoles are present.
• Nutrition Saprozoic.
• Asexual reproduction by multiple fission.
• Sexual reproduction by spore formation.
• Life cycle complex . All internal parasites.
Myxidium
Nosema
Plasmodium
Sareocystis
CLASS: CILIATA
• Complex Protozoa with a firm pellicle.
• Locomotory organelles cilia or sucking
tentacles , in at least one stage of life cycle.
• Nuclei of 2 kind. (dimorphic)
• Nutrition holozoic.
• Asexual reproduction by binary fission.
• Sexual reproduction by conjugation and auto
gamy.
Balantidium
Paramecium
Opalina
Stentor
BODY STRUCTURE
In Protozoa cytoplasm remain separated from
external environment by a cell envelope. This
is of special importance as this covering
protects the body from harmful influences of
external environment, permits a controlled
exchange of substances across it, perceives
mechanical and chemical stimuli and
establishes contact with other cells.
BODY COVERING
•Plasmalemma
•Pellicle
Plasmalemma
In some forms, like Amoeba, Chrysamoeba
and Saprozoa body covering is a thin plasma
membrane or Plasmalemma.
It posses the typical bilayered lipid & protien
ultra structure in general. Flexibility of this
membrane allows change in shape. In Amoeba
, it is provided with longitudinal ridges of
mucopolysaccharides which help in adhesion
to substratum.
Pellicle
In other Protozoa, Euglena, the body covering
is in the form of a differentiated pellicle, which
is some what thicker and firm. It is underlined
by plasma membrane and is formed of
proteins . The rigidity of pellicle gives definite
shape to the body. The thickened pellicle in
some of the more specialized Protozoa is
variously ridge and sculptured as in
Paramecium , Coleps ect.
SKELETONS
•Cyst
•Theca
•Lorica
•Shell or test
In Different groups of
protozoa, various kinds of
permanent non living
external or internal layers
are secreted. These may be
composed of organic and
inorganic materials, which
are often impregnated with
foreign bodies. These
constitute the protozoan
skeleton.
Cyst
It is temporary sheath and its formed both in
free living and parasitic Protozoa when they
pass into a dormant state. Exhaustions of food
supply , drought and putrefaction favour
Encystment.
Theca
Many dinoflagellates bear a coat of closely
fitted armour of cellulose, called Theca. In
some forms, theca is composed of two valves
while in a majority of dinoflagellates it is
differentiated into a number of plates laid out
in a definite pattern and variously sculptured
or ornamented.
Lorica
It is a covering which fits less closely to the
organism than theca. It may be gelatinous or
tectinous . It is usually a cup or vase like structure
with an opening, through which emerges the
anterior part of organism’s body or its
appendages. Base of Lorica in sessile species may
be attached directly to the substratum ( Phacus,
Salpinogoeca) or may end in astalk (Monosiga).In
colonial Loricated individuals,one lorica may be
attached to another directly or by means of stalk
(Poteriodendron)
Shell or Test
Shells or test are widespread among protozoa.
These are coverings in loose contact with the
body , provided with one or more openings
through which the animal can protrude itself.
• In shelled amoeba like Arcella and allied
forms, the shell is thin and made up of a
chitinous material called tectin or
pseudochitin ( proteins+carbohydrates).
• In Difflugia and others shell are formed of sand
particles & other substances like pieces of
Foraminiferan shells and sponge spicules
which are embedded in secreted matrix acting
as cement.
• Siliceous shells , made up of silica are found in
some Rhizopoda (euglypha).
• Foraminiferan secrete mostly a calcareous
shell. Made of calcium carbonate .It may be
singled chambered or multi chambered and
dimorphic in some cases (elphidium, discorbis)
LOCOMOTION
The ability of an organism
to move in a particular
direction
LOCOMOTORY ORGANELLES
• Pseudopodia
• Flagella
• Cilia
• Pellicular Contractile
Structures
Pseudopodia
• False Feet
Temporary structures formed by streaming
flow of cytoplasm
Sarcodina move with
this structures
Pseudopodia
Lobopodia
Filopodia
Reticulopodia
Axopodia
Lobopodia
• Lobe like pseudopodia with
broad and rounded ends.
• Composed of both Ectoplasm
& Endoplasm.
Filopodia
• More or less Filamentous
pseudopodia
• Composed of Ectoplasm
• Branched & form simple or
complex network
Reticulopodia
• Filamentous pseudopodia
• Branched & interconnected
profusely to form a network.
Axopodia
• Straight pseudopodia
• Radiating from the surface of the
body.
• Contains a central axial rod
covered by granular and adhesive
cytoplasm.
Flagella
• Thread like projections on cell surface.
• Consists of an elongate, stiff axial
filament, the axoneme , enclosed by an
outer sheath.
• Number of Flagella vary in Mastigophora
from one to eight or more.
• One or two in free living species.
• One to many in parasitic organism.
Cilia
• Highly vibratile small endoplasmic
process.
• Modified flagella.
• Contains:-- membranous sheath,
plasma membrane, enclosed fluid
matrix.
• Characteristics of Ciliata.
Pellicular Contractile Structure
•Pellicle or Ectoplasm called
myonemes.
These may be in the form of ridges grooves
(euglena) or contractile myofibrils(larger
ciliates) or microtubules (trypanosoma).
LOCOMOTION METHOD
•Amoeboid Movement
•Flagellar Movement
•Ciliary Movement
•Metabolic Movement
Amoeboid Movement
• Characteristics of Sarcodina and certain
Mastigophora & Saprozoa.
It consists in the formation of pseudopodia by
the streaming flow of cytoplasm in the
direction of movement.
Locomotion by pseudopodia is possible only
over a surface.
Flagellar Movement
• Characteristics of Mastigophora
• Flagella need liquid medium for locomotion.
• Three types:
** Paddle Stroke
** Undulating motion
** Simple Conical Gyration
Paddle Stroke
Ulehla and Krijsman (1952)
Common movement of a flagellum is sideways
lash, consisting of an effective down stroke
with flagellum held out rigidly, and a relaxed
recovery stroke in which flagellum, strongly
curved is brought forward again.
Undulating Movement
• Wave like undulations.
Tip to Base: forward
Base to tip: backward
Spiral undulations cause the opposite rotaion
to the organism.
Simple Conical Gyration
• Butschil’s screw theory postulates a spiral
turning of flagellum like a screw.
• This exerts propelling action, pulling the
animal forward through water with
– a spiral rotation
– gyration( revolving in circle) around the axis of
movement.
Ciliary Movement
• Performed by cilia
• Also need liquid medium for movements.
• The speed of Ciliary locomotion varies from
400 to 2000 microns per second.
Ciliary Movement
Metabolic Movement
• This is typical life of certain flagellates and
most sporozoans at certain stages of their life
cycles.
• Gliding or wriggling or peristaltic movement.
Myonemes
• Gregarine movements
Nutrition
The process by which organisms obtained
energy (in the form of food) for growth,
maintenance and repair.
• Take in food
• Digest food
• Assimilates food
Nutrition in Protozoa
• Protozoa obtain nourishment in many ways.
They are:
– Holozoic Nutrition
– Holophytic Nutrition
– Saprophytic or Saprozoic Nutrition
– Parasitic Nutrition
– Coprozoic Nutrition
– Mixotrophic Nutrition
Holozoic Nutrition
• Gr. Holos,whole; zoon, animal.
• Holozoic: completely animal like.
• Depends on ready made solid food particles
• Zootrophic or Heterotrophic Nutrition
Holophytic Nutrition
• Gr. Holos, whole; phyton, plant.
• As typical plant
• By photosynthesis
• Chlorophyll contain chromatophore & Sunlight
energy
• Water & Carbon dioxide.
Saprozoic Nutrition
• Gr. Sapros, rotten ; zoon , animal.
• Depends on organic matter dissolves in the
medium
• Parasitic Protozoa, free living flagellates
• Osmotrophy
Pinocytosis
• Ingestion liquid food trough body surface.
• Absorb high molecular compounds.
• Amoeba , certain flagellates Sporozoans and
cihates.
Nutrition of Parasites
• Protozoan nourishes themselves partially or
wholly
• Rob the food of the host.
• Feed upon its living tissues.
Mixotrophic Nutrition
• Several Protozoa can feed by more than one
method
• Mixotrophic: mixed type nutrition
• Mesotrophic Nutrition
Coprozoic Nutrition
• Feeding Fecal matter of other organisms
Zootrophic
They depend on
ready made food
particles
Don’t depend
upon sunlight
Food: proteins
Autotrophic
They are unable to
make their own
food using simple
substances
Depend on
sunlight &
Chlorophyll
Food: chlprophyll
Zootrophic
Digest:
Proteins ,
Fats ,
Starch
Source of
Proteins
Autotrophic
Organic
food
Source of
Nitrogen
Contractile Vacuoles
• Rounded and Pulsating space filled with a
watery fluid.
• Exapands (diastole) and Contracts (systole)
rhythemically and serves for excretion and
osmo regulation.
Food Vacuoles
• Non contractile food vacuoles, small
and large found in the endoplasm.
• Contains water and solid food
particles.
• Disappear with the egestion of non-
digestible food from the body
Water Vacuoles
• Transparent , colorless non
contractile spherical spaces
filled with water
Reproduction
• Production of new individuals more or less
similar in form to the parent organisms.
Reproduction in Protozoa
• Sexual Reproduction
• Asexual Reproduction
Asexual Reproduction
• Binary fission
• Plasmotomy
• Budding
• Multiple fission
• Plasmogamy
Binary Fission
• One form of Mitosis
• The two daughter organisms
produced as a result of binary
fission carry all the cytoplasmic
organelles of the parent individual.
Plasmotomy
• Special type of binary fission.
• Protozoans (multinucleate) produce two or
more multinucleate daughter individuals.
Budding
• Modified fission
• Create small daughter individual in the form of
a bud
• When the bud breaks off ,It grows to full size.
Multiple Fission
• Sporulation
• The parent body simultaneously divides into
as many daughter individuals as there are
nuclei.
Plasmogamy
• Rhizopoda
• Two or more individuals may fuse by their
cytoplasm to form a plasmodium in which the
nuclei remain distinct and they separate again
unchanged afterwards.
Non sexual and not syngamy
Sexual Reproduction
• Syngamy or Fusion
– Hologamy
– Isogamy
– Anisogamy
– Autogamy
• Conjugation
Syngamy
• Compete fusion of two sex cells or gametes
• Form Zygote
– Hologamy
– Isogamy
– Anisogamy
– Autogamy
Hologamy
• Do not form gametes but themselves behaves
as gametes
• Fuse together to form Zygote
Isogamy
• Two fusing gametes are similar in size and
shape, differ in behaviour
• Produce gametes by multiple fission.
Anisogamy
• Two fusing gametes are different in size and
shape as well as in behaviour
• Microgamete: male, large, motile
• Macrogamete: female , non motile
Autogamy
• Fusion of gametes derived from the same
parent cell.
• Meiotic division.
Conjuagtion
– Random contact brings individuals of opposite
mating types together (called conjugants)
– Meiosis results in four haploid pronuclei
– Three pronuclei and the macronucleus
degenerate. Mitosis and mutual exchange of
pronuclei is followed by fusion of the pronuclei.
– Conjugants separate. Nuclear divisions that
restore nuclear characteristics of species follow.
Cytoplasmic divisions may accompany these
events
Parthenogenesis
• Gametes which fail at cross-fertilization,
develop parthenogenetically.
Regeneration
• Process of regenerating animals’ lost parts.
• Nucleus plays an important role in this
process.
Specific Representative
• Globigerina
• Lithocircus
• Ephelota
Globigerina
• Marine, found in the bottom of deep sea.
Found in creeping about on sea weeds
• Also found in brackish water.
Systematic Position
• Systematic position
Phylum: Protozoa
Sub phylum: Plasmodroma
Class: Rhizopoda
Order: Foraminiferida
Genus: Globigerina
Morphological Characters
• The body is enclosed in a perforated
calcareous shell having few chambers.
• The chambers are compact and bulbous.
• Protoplasm is distinguishable into an external
layer and inner mass.
• The external layer of protoplasm or ectoplasm
is full of foam and contains large vacuoles.
• Pseudopodia are numerous which protrude
through pores of the shell.
Lithocircus
• Commonly Marine invertebrate.
• Found in deep sea.
• Exclusively exhibits Symbiosis
Systematic Position
• Systematic position
Phylum: Protozoa
Sub phylum: Plasmodroma
Class: Rhizopoda
Order: Radiolaria
Genus: Lithocircus
Morphological Characters
• Body is covered by a shell of siliceous skeleton.
• The animalcule is provided with a central capsule
embedded in protoplasm.
• The central capsules divides the protoplasm into
extra capsular and intra capsular protoplasm.
• Extra capsuler protoplasm gives to radiating
thread like pseudopodia, while intra capsular
protoplasm caontains single nucleus.
• Contractile vacuole absent
• Reproduction: asexual by binary fission
Ephelota
• Mainly Marine.
• Two types of tentacles such as
– long tentacles used for piercing
&
– short texta used for sucking.
Systematic Position
• Systematic position:
Phylum: Protozoa
Subphylum: Cillophora
Class:Suctoria
Genus: Ephelota
Morphological Characters
• Body is spherical and bearing stalk.
• There are two types of tentacles on the body.
• Protoplasm contains an oval nucleus and few
contractile vacuole.
• Reproduction by budding.
• The distal half of the animal sprout a number
of small elevations or buds.
• In budding process the nuclei behave as in the
ordinary binary fission.
Importance of Protozoa
• Economically valuable in this Age of mammals.
Helpful Protozoa
Harmful Protozoa
Helpful in Sanitation
• Keep drinking water safe
• Holozoic protozoa feed on putrefying bacteria,
thus helps to purify water.
Planktonic Protozoa as Food
• Food for man, fish and other organisms.
• Form a link in food chain in the oceanic
environment.
Symbiotic Protozoa
• Symbiosis association
• Beneficial to both the partners forming a
dependency.
Harmful Protozoa
• Soil Protozoa
• Water Pollution
• Pathogenic Protozoa
– Pathogenic Sarcodines
– Pathogenic Flagellates
– Pathogenic Sporozoans
– Pathogenic Ciliates
Soil Protozoa
• Soil protozoans feed upon the Nitrifying
Bacteria
• Decreses the amount of nitrogen to soil.
Water Pollution
• Pollute water producing aromatic and oily
secretions with objectionable odours
• Some bioluminescent, living in sea , multiply
extensively and occurs the phenomenon called
bloom
• Destruction of fish , poisoning of edible
molluscs.
Pathogenic Protozoa
• Cause disease to animals are termed as
Pathogenic protozoa.
– Pathogenic sarcodines
– Pathogenic Flagellates
– Pathogenic Sporozoans
– Pathogenic Ciliates
• Entamoeba histolytica
• Leishmania donovani
• Plasmodium vivax
• Balantidium coli

Clear Concept of Protozoa fish

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    WHAT IS PROTOZOA Gr.;Protos: first//Zoon: Animal Heterogeneous Grouping Of Single-Celled Organism. Protozoa are those animals which consists of single cell that may be simple. They are microscopic in size. They displays all types of symmetry great range of structural complexity and adaptation for all types of environmental conditions. Their evolution parallels that of multicellular animals and their origin is perhaps polyphyletic. Infact they are microscopic and acellular animalcules ,without tissues and organs, having one or more nuclei but no nucleus ever in charge of specialized part of cytoplasm. They exist either single or in colonies.
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    CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA •Small, Microscopic Animalcules, Ordinarily not visible without microscope. • Simples & Most primitive of all animals with protoplasmic grade of organization. • Body Unicellular. Containing one or more Nuclei which are Monomorphic or Dimorphic. • Solitary or Forming loose colonies in which individuals remain alike and independent.
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    CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA •Body symmetry none , bilateral , radial or spherical. • Body naked or bounded by a Pellicle and often provided with simple shells or exoskeletons. • Body form usually constant varied in some while changing with environment or age in many. • The single cell body performs all essential and vital activities, which characterized the animal body.
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    CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA •Locomotor organelles are finger like pseudopodia or whip like flagella or hair like cilia or absent. • Nutrition holozoic (animal like), holophytic (plant like), Saprozoic or Parasitic. Digestion occurs intracellularly inside food vacuoles. • Respiration & Excretion through general surface or through contractile vacuoles which serves mainly for osmoregulation.
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    CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA •Reproduction asexual by binary or multiple fission and budding and sexual by conjugation of adults (Hologamy) or by fusion of gametes (syngamy) • Life history often complicated with alternation of asexual and sexual phases.
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    CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA •Encystment commonly occurs to help in dispersal as well as to resist unfavorable conditions of food, temperature and moisture. • Free living Protozoa mostly aquatic, inhabiting fresh and sea waters and damp places. Parasitic and commensal Protozoa live over or inside the bodies of animals and plants. Sufficient moistures essential in their environment.
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    CHARACTERS OF PROTOZOA •The single celled individual not differentiated into somatoplasm & germplasm. Therefore , exempt from natural death which is the price paid for the body.
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    CLASSIFICATION Phylum: PROTOZOA Sub Phylum: Plasmodroma Mastigophora SarcodinaSporozoa Opalinata Sub Phylum: Ciliophora Ciliata CLASSIFICATION BY Hyman (1940),Hickman(1961)& Storer (1965)
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    Plasmodroma • Simple andprimitive • Locomotion by pseudopodia, flagella or none. Cilia absent. • Nucleus reproduction by syngamy • Asexual reproduction by binary or multiple fusion. • Life cycle may include an alternation of generations.
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    Ciliophora • More complex •Cilia or sucking tentacles present in at least one stage of life cycle. • Usually two types of nuclei. • Sexual reproduction by conjugation. • Asexual reproduction by binary fusion and budding. • No alternation of generations
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    CLASS: SARCODINA • Bodynaked or with internal shells or external tests. • With Pseudopodia for locomotion & food capture. • Amoeboid during most of life cycle. • No spore formation, no Conjugation. • Mostly free living.
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    CLASS: MASTIGOPHORA • Bodycovered by thin Pellicle or test of Cellulose, Chitin or Silica. • One to many flagella for locomotion & food capture, some with Pseudopodia. • Nutrition Autotrophic, Heterotrophic or Mixotrophic. • Asexual Reproduction or by Longitudinal fission. • No spore formation .No Conjugation. • Free living or Parasitic.
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    CLASS: OPALINATA • Bodyuniformly covered by cilia-like flagella in oblique rows. • Cytostome absent, Nutrition Saprozoic. • Nucleus 2 to many , monomorphic or identical. • Reproduction by binary fission or by gamete conjugation. • Endo parasites in cold blooded vertebrates.
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    CLASS: SPOROZOA • Bodycovered with a thick pellicle. • No locomotory organ , mouth and contractile vacuoles are present. • Nutrition Saprozoic. • Asexual reproduction by multiple fission. • Sexual reproduction by spore formation. • Life cycle complex . All internal parasites.
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    CLASS: CILIATA • ComplexProtozoa with a firm pellicle. • Locomotory organelles cilia or sucking tentacles , in at least one stage of life cycle. • Nuclei of 2 kind. (dimorphic) • Nutrition holozoic. • Asexual reproduction by binary fission. • Sexual reproduction by conjugation and auto gamy.
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    BODY STRUCTURE In Protozoacytoplasm remain separated from external environment by a cell envelope. This is of special importance as this covering protects the body from harmful influences of external environment, permits a controlled exchange of substances across it, perceives mechanical and chemical stimuli and establishes contact with other cells.
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    Plasmalemma In some forms,like Amoeba, Chrysamoeba and Saprozoa body covering is a thin plasma membrane or Plasmalemma. It posses the typical bilayered lipid & protien ultra structure in general. Flexibility of this membrane allows change in shape. In Amoeba , it is provided with longitudinal ridges of mucopolysaccharides which help in adhesion to substratum.
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    Pellicle In other Protozoa,Euglena, the body covering is in the form of a differentiated pellicle, which is some what thicker and firm. It is underlined by plasma membrane and is formed of proteins . The rigidity of pellicle gives definite shape to the body. The thickened pellicle in some of the more specialized Protozoa is variously ridge and sculptured as in Paramecium , Coleps ect.
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    SKELETONS •Cyst •Theca •Lorica •Shell or test InDifferent groups of protozoa, various kinds of permanent non living external or internal layers are secreted. These may be composed of organic and inorganic materials, which are often impregnated with foreign bodies. These constitute the protozoan skeleton.
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    Cyst It is temporarysheath and its formed both in free living and parasitic Protozoa when they pass into a dormant state. Exhaustions of food supply , drought and putrefaction favour Encystment.
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    Theca Many dinoflagellates beara coat of closely fitted armour of cellulose, called Theca. In some forms, theca is composed of two valves while in a majority of dinoflagellates it is differentiated into a number of plates laid out in a definite pattern and variously sculptured or ornamented.
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    Lorica It is acovering which fits less closely to the organism than theca. It may be gelatinous or tectinous . It is usually a cup or vase like structure with an opening, through which emerges the anterior part of organism’s body or its appendages. Base of Lorica in sessile species may be attached directly to the substratum ( Phacus, Salpinogoeca) or may end in astalk (Monosiga).In colonial Loricated individuals,one lorica may be attached to another directly or by means of stalk (Poteriodendron)
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    Shell or Test Shellsor test are widespread among protozoa. These are coverings in loose contact with the body , provided with one or more openings through which the animal can protrude itself.
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    • In shelledamoeba like Arcella and allied forms, the shell is thin and made up of a chitinous material called tectin or pseudochitin ( proteins+carbohydrates).
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    • In Difflugiaand others shell are formed of sand particles & other substances like pieces of Foraminiferan shells and sponge spicules which are embedded in secreted matrix acting as cement.
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    • Siliceous shells, made up of silica are found in some Rhizopoda (euglypha).
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    • Foraminiferan secretemostly a calcareous shell. Made of calcium carbonate .It may be singled chambered or multi chambered and dimorphic in some cases (elphidium, discorbis)
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    LOCOMOTION The ability ofan organism to move in a particular direction
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    LOCOMOTORY ORGANELLES • Pseudopodia •Flagella • Cilia • Pellicular Contractile Structures
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    Pseudopodia • False Feet Temporarystructures formed by streaming flow of cytoplasm Sarcodina move with this structures
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    Lobopodia • Lobe likepseudopodia with broad and rounded ends. • Composed of both Ectoplasm & Endoplasm.
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    Filopodia • More orless Filamentous pseudopodia • Composed of Ectoplasm • Branched & form simple or complex network
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    Reticulopodia • Filamentous pseudopodia •Branched & interconnected profusely to form a network.
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    Axopodia • Straight pseudopodia •Radiating from the surface of the body. • Contains a central axial rod covered by granular and adhesive cytoplasm.
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    Flagella • Thread likeprojections on cell surface. • Consists of an elongate, stiff axial filament, the axoneme , enclosed by an outer sheath. • Number of Flagella vary in Mastigophora from one to eight or more. • One or two in free living species. • One to many in parasitic organism.
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    Cilia • Highly vibratilesmall endoplasmic process. • Modified flagella. • Contains:-- membranous sheath, plasma membrane, enclosed fluid matrix. • Characteristics of Ciliata.
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    Pellicular Contractile Structure •Pellicleor Ectoplasm called myonemes. These may be in the form of ridges grooves (euglena) or contractile myofibrils(larger ciliates) or microtubules (trypanosoma).
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    LOCOMOTION METHOD •Amoeboid Movement •FlagellarMovement •Ciliary Movement •Metabolic Movement
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    Amoeboid Movement • Characteristicsof Sarcodina and certain Mastigophora & Saprozoa. It consists in the formation of pseudopodia by the streaming flow of cytoplasm in the direction of movement. Locomotion by pseudopodia is possible only over a surface.
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    Flagellar Movement • Characteristicsof Mastigophora • Flagella need liquid medium for locomotion. • Three types: ** Paddle Stroke ** Undulating motion ** Simple Conical Gyration
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    Paddle Stroke Ulehla andKrijsman (1952) Common movement of a flagellum is sideways lash, consisting of an effective down stroke with flagellum held out rigidly, and a relaxed recovery stroke in which flagellum, strongly curved is brought forward again.
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    Undulating Movement • Wavelike undulations. Tip to Base: forward Base to tip: backward Spiral undulations cause the opposite rotaion to the organism.
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    Simple Conical Gyration •Butschil’s screw theory postulates a spiral turning of flagellum like a screw. • This exerts propelling action, pulling the animal forward through water with – a spiral rotation – gyration( revolving in circle) around the axis of movement.
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    Ciliary Movement • Performedby cilia • Also need liquid medium for movements. • The speed of Ciliary locomotion varies from 400 to 2000 microns per second.
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    Metabolic Movement • Thisis typical life of certain flagellates and most sporozoans at certain stages of their life cycles. • Gliding or wriggling or peristaltic movement. Myonemes • Gregarine movements
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    Nutrition The process bywhich organisms obtained energy (in the form of food) for growth, maintenance and repair. • Take in food • Digest food • Assimilates food
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    Nutrition in Protozoa •Protozoa obtain nourishment in many ways. They are: – Holozoic Nutrition – Holophytic Nutrition – Saprophytic or Saprozoic Nutrition – Parasitic Nutrition – Coprozoic Nutrition – Mixotrophic Nutrition
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    Holozoic Nutrition • Gr.Holos,whole; zoon, animal. • Holozoic: completely animal like. • Depends on ready made solid food particles • Zootrophic or Heterotrophic Nutrition
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    Holophytic Nutrition • Gr.Holos, whole; phyton, plant. • As typical plant • By photosynthesis • Chlorophyll contain chromatophore & Sunlight energy • Water & Carbon dioxide.
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    Saprozoic Nutrition • Gr.Sapros, rotten ; zoon , animal. • Depends on organic matter dissolves in the medium • Parasitic Protozoa, free living flagellates • Osmotrophy
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    Pinocytosis • Ingestion liquidfood trough body surface. • Absorb high molecular compounds. • Amoeba , certain flagellates Sporozoans and cihates.
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    Nutrition of Parasites •Protozoan nourishes themselves partially or wholly • Rob the food of the host. • Feed upon its living tissues.
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    Mixotrophic Nutrition • SeveralProtozoa can feed by more than one method • Mixotrophic: mixed type nutrition • Mesotrophic Nutrition
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    Coprozoic Nutrition • FeedingFecal matter of other organisms
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    Zootrophic They depend on readymade food particles Don’t depend upon sunlight Food: proteins Autotrophic They are unable to make their own food using simple substances Depend on sunlight & Chlorophyll Food: chlprophyll
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    Zootrophic Digest: Proteins , Fats , Starch Sourceof Proteins Autotrophic Organic food Source of Nitrogen
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    Contractile Vacuoles • Roundedand Pulsating space filled with a watery fluid. • Exapands (diastole) and Contracts (systole) rhythemically and serves for excretion and osmo regulation.
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    Food Vacuoles • Noncontractile food vacuoles, small and large found in the endoplasm. • Contains water and solid food particles. • Disappear with the egestion of non- digestible food from the body
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    Water Vacuoles • Transparent, colorless non contractile spherical spaces filled with water
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    Reproduction • Production ofnew individuals more or less similar in form to the parent organisms.
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    Reproduction in Protozoa •Sexual Reproduction • Asexual Reproduction
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    Asexual Reproduction • Binaryfission • Plasmotomy • Budding • Multiple fission • Plasmogamy
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    Binary Fission • Oneform of Mitosis • The two daughter organisms produced as a result of binary fission carry all the cytoplasmic organelles of the parent individual.
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    Plasmotomy • Special typeof binary fission. • Protozoans (multinucleate) produce two or more multinucleate daughter individuals.
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    Budding • Modified fission •Create small daughter individual in the form of a bud • When the bud breaks off ,It grows to full size.
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    Multiple Fission • Sporulation •The parent body simultaneously divides into as many daughter individuals as there are nuclei.
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    Plasmogamy • Rhizopoda • Twoor more individuals may fuse by their cytoplasm to form a plasmodium in which the nuclei remain distinct and they separate again unchanged afterwards. Non sexual and not syngamy
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    Sexual Reproduction • Syngamyor Fusion – Hologamy – Isogamy – Anisogamy – Autogamy • Conjugation
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    Syngamy • Compete fusionof two sex cells or gametes • Form Zygote – Hologamy – Isogamy – Anisogamy – Autogamy
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    Hologamy • Do notform gametes but themselves behaves as gametes • Fuse together to form Zygote
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    Isogamy • Two fusinggametes are similar in size and shape, differ in behaviour • Produce gametes by multiple fission.
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    Anisogamy • Two fusinggametes are different in size and shape as well as in behaviour • Microgamete: male, large, motile • Macrogamete: female , non motile
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    Autogamy • Fusion ofgametes derived from the same parent cell. • Meiotic division.
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    Conjuagtion – Random contactbrings individuals of opposite mating types together (called conjugants) – Meiosis results in four haploid pronuclei – Three pronuclei and the macronucleus degenerate. Mitosis and mutual exchange of pronuclei is followed by fusion of the pronuclei. – Conjugants separate. Nuclear divisions that restore nuclear characteristics of species follow. Cytoplasmic divisions may accompany these events
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    Parthenogenesis • Gametes whichfail at cross-fertilization, develop parthenogenetically.
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    Regeneration • Process ofregenerating animals’ lost parts. • Nucleus plays an important role in this process.
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    Globigerina • Marine, foundin the bottom of deep sea. Found in creeping about on sea weeds • Also found in brackish water.
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    Systematic Position • Systematicposition Phylum: Protozoa Sub phylum: Plasmodroma Class: Rhizopoda Order: Foraminiferida Genus: Globigerina
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    Morphological Characters • Thebody is enclosed in a perforated calcareous shell having few chambers. • The chambers are compact and bulbous. • Protoplasm is distinguishable into an external layer and inner mass. • The external layer of protoplasm or ectoplasm is full of foam and contains large vacuoles. • Pseudopodia are numerous which protrude through pores of the shell.
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    Lithocircus • Commonly Marineinvertebrate. • Found in deep sea. • Exclusively exhibits Symbiosis
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    Systematic Position • Systematicposition Phylum: Protozoa Sub phylum: Plasmodroma Class: Rhizopoda Order: Radiolaria Genus: Lithocircus
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    Morphological Characters • Bodyis covered by a shell of siliceous skeleton. • The animalcule is provided with a central capsule embedded in protoplasm. • The central capsules divides the protoplasm into extra capsular and intra capsular protoplasm. • Extra capsuler protoplasm gives to radiating thread like pseudopodia, while intra capsular protoplasm caontains single nucleus. • Contractile vacuole absent • Reproduction: asexual by binary fission
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    Ephelota • Mainly Marine. •Two types of tentacles such as – long tentacles used for piercing & – short texta used for sucking.
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    Systematic Position • Systematicposition: Phylum: Protozoa Subphylum: Cillophora Class:Suctoria Genus: Ephelota
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    Morphological Characters • Bodyis spherical and bearing stalk. • There are two types of tentacles on the body. • Protoplasm contains an oval nucleus and few contractile vacuole. • Reproduction by budding. • The distal half of the animal sprout a number of small elevations or buds. • In budding process the nuclei behave as in the ordinary binary fission.
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    Importance of Protozoa •Economically valuable in this Age of mammals. Helpful Protozoa Harmful Protozoa
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    Helpful in Sanitation •Keep drinking water safe • Holozoic protozoa feed on putrefying bacteria, thus helps to purify water.
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    Planktonic Protozoa asFood • Food for man, fish and other organisms. • Form a link in food chain in the oceanic environment.
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    Symbiotic Protozoa • Symbiosisassociation • Beneficial to both the partners forming a dependency.
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    Harmful Protozoa • SoilProtozoa • Water Pollution • Pathogenic Protozoa – Pathogenic Sarcodines – Pathogenic Flagellates – Pathogenic Sporozoans – Pathogenic Ciliates
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    Soil Protozoa • Soilprotozoans feed upon the Nitrifying Bacteria • Decreses the amount of nitrogen to soil.
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    Water Pollution • Pollutewater producing aromatic and oily secretions with objectionable odours • Some bioluminescent, living in sea , multiply extensively and occurs the phenomenon called bloom • Destruction of fish , poisoning of edible molluscs.
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    Pathogenic Protozoa • Causedisease to animals are termed as Pathogenic protozoa. – Pathogenic sarcodines – Pathogenic Flagellates – Pathogenic Sporozoans – Pathogenic Ciliates
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    • Entamoeba histolytica •Leishmania donovani • Plasmodium vivax • Balantidium coli