Yes, this slime mold is a protista!This week starts our next chapter on Protista. This is how website Windows to the Universe describes protista:
Members of the Kingdom Protista are the simplest of the eukaryotes.
Protists are an unusual group of organisms that were put together
because they don't really seem to belong to any other group. Some
protists perform photosynthesis like plants while others move around
and act like animals, but protists are neither plants nor animals.
They're not fungi either - even though some might like to "think" they are!
In some ways, the Kingdom Protista is home for the "leftover" organisms
that couldn't be classified elsewhere. You might not think a tiny one-celled
amoeba has much in common with a giant sea kelp,
but they're both members of this kingdom.
Protists are an unusual group of organisms that were put together
because they don't really seem to belong to any other group. Some
protists perform photosynthesis like plants while others move around
and act like animals, but protists are neither plants nor animals.
They're not fungi either - even though some might like to "think" they are!
In some ways, the Kingdom Protista is home for the "leftover" organisms
that couldn't be classified elsewhere. You might not think a tiny one-celled
amoeba has much in common with a giant sea kelp,
but they're both members of this kingdom.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/life/protista.html
Microbe Zoo
Check out the Microbe Zoo, a science site from Montana University.
Click on the zoo icon on the site (looks just like the one here) and read about microbes for hours and hours! Ok, you might not want to read for hours but at least check out one microbe and post me a note about it. An extra surprise in class if you do :)
Remember more information is better than the minimum.
Remember more information is better than the minimum.
2 comments:
about the water world and it creatures that many animal and humans,to live and reproduce the microbes live in overgrown slime anhd that to me sound very weird and a littlie gross and animals and the last thing is that they eat soil rather than regular food!
Ulises, I have a gross one for you. I checked out the animal pavilion and read about Methanosarcina. It is a eukaryote (remember what that means?) that lives in the stomach of a cow but it also lives in my bowels!
It is a methane gas producer in the cow. Do you know that methane is a colorless, odorless flammable gas? Imagine a cow breathing fire!
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