Which common protist am I?
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Which common protist am I?
Hold up the protist that you think the clue goes with
Who Am I?
• I move by means of pseudopods to engulf food and travel
• Ameoba
• I have chloroplast to carry out photosynthesis
Volvox or Euglena
• We have contractile vacuoles
Ameoba, paramecium, euglena
• My trichocysts help in protecting me
• Paramecium
• My movement doesn’t only depend on my cilia, I also rely on the water temperature (70-80 degrees is best)
• Blepharisma
• I belong to the Sarcodine phylum
• Ameoba
• I belong to the green algae phylum
• Volvox
• I use my cilia to sweep down food through my trumpet shaped body
• Stentor
• I possess two flagella and no cell wall
• Euglena
• I am rose colored and can be said to be cannibalistic because I eat other smaller ciliates like myself
• Blepharisma
• I can behave like an autotroph or heterotroph
• Euglena
• I am green in color because of chlorophyll, form hollow spheres, and can perform photosynthesis
• Volvox
• I have a full digestive tract and feed on algae and even dog fur
• Blepharisma
• My myonemes allow me to contract into a ball
• Stentor
• My eyespot helps me to use the sun to obtain energy
• Euglena