a large group of flagellate protists

Protist: a diverse group of eukaryotic microorganisms

A common name for a phenomenon known as an algal bloom, an event in which estuarine, marine, or fresh water algae accumulate rapidly in the water column

When algae is environmentally hazardous

cells with one or more whip-like organelles called flagella

Under the protozoa category

term used either to describe protists that move by crawling via pseudopods, or to refer to a genus that includes species that move by this mechanism

Have cytoplasmic streaming

Diarrhea causing

Protozoa

Lack Chlorophyll

Can cause colonic ulcers and dysentery (involves ulceration, bleeding, and abdominal cramping)

Protozoa that possess an apicomplex which allow for gliding motility

Can cause malaria, toxoplasma, and cryptosporidium

One of the complex life cycles

Motile form

One of the complex life cycles

Resistant to environmental damage

Resting?

In contrast to motile trophozoite

Multiple division

Can divide into 8 different cells per division

Saprophytes (eat dead stuff)

Classified by reproduction

No photosynthesis

Live off of decaying organic material

Single cell form

Divide by fission or by budding

Filamentous (hyphal) form of fungi

Form spores (NOT like bacteria)

Have visible mycelium with spores

Under different environmental condictions a yeast can turn into a mold form

Both a yeast and mold

Have two mating types grow together to form a zygosporangium (in the middle where they meet)

Fused hyphae form spores

Labeled as + or -, but can look as a mom and dad

They grow fast on agar

Ascospores form at the end of a filament

Spore sacs produced on end of filament (hyphae)

Basidiomycetes

The reproductive structure in the mushroom

Spores bud from the mushroom

Ergot

A fungal toxin that is from rye smut

Constricts blood vessels which gives you a tingly, burning sensation

Caused mass hysteria/hallucinations with the "witches"

A fungal toxin that is the carcinogenic toxin from Aspergillus

If you inhale this and it germinates in your lungs it can cause cancer

Respiratory system fungus

Types of mycosis

Systemic: very serious with blood infections, can be fatal

Cutaneous: not serious, athlete's foot, jock itch, ringworm

Superficial: not serious, dandruff

Mechanical: bacteria or viruses are transmitted ON the vector, but the vector is not a host

Biological: bacteria or viruses live IN the vector as a host

Can transmit many diseases as carriers or vectors (mechanical or biological)

Biggest class of arthropods and the only ones with wings

Fleas, lice, and ticks

 joint-legged invertebrate animals with eight legs

Mites

Worms and Flukes

Includes nematodes, tapeworms, and flukes

NOT ringworm

Nematodes

Some digestive worms (Ascaris, pinworms)

Others burrow through the skin into the bloodstream (hookworm, trichinella, filaria)

Long and flat --> the pork tapeworm is the bad one

Proglottides w/egg shed in feces

Cysticerci

They spread systemically and can migrate to the brain

Type of tapeworm

Have complex lifestyles

Type of helminth

Burrow through skin to initiate a very complex life cycle

Cercarial larvae bury thru the skin; grow in adults in blood; lay eggs; migrate to liver; shed in feces; hatch into miracidial larva; eaten by snail; develops into cericarial again...

Hatch toward the end of the very complex life cycle of Schistosomes.

Hatch in human feces and get eaten by snails