Cellular Slime Moulds are also known as Acrasiomycetes. They normally occur in humus containing soil. Their somatic phase consists of uninucleate cells known as myxamoebae. They are amoeba like cells…
Protozoan Protists occur in various habitats like aquatic, land. They may be free living or act as a parasite. Leuwenhoek first studied it. Basically they are small, acellular organisms which…
Zooflagellate as the name suggest possess flagella for locomotion. They are uninucleate and are covered by pellicle. They reproduce asexually by binary fission. It mainly includes trypansoma, leishmania, giardia and…
Sarcodina have pseudopodia for locomotion. They also engulf food particles and live in fresh water, sea water or moist soil. Pseudopodia can be of different types such as lobopodia, axopodia,…
Radiolarians are free floating marine organisms. Their protoplasm is differentiated into intra and extra capsular type. Pseudopodia arise from extra capsular type and help in movement. They may be axopodia…
Foraminiferans are aquatic dwellers which have calcium shell. They have perforated chambers. Protoplasm flows out of them and form pseudopodia. They help in locomotion. Pseudopodia are of reticulopodia type. They…
Heliozoans are spherical in shape and have axopodia type of pseudopodia. They are called sun-animal-cules. They may be without any covering or with siliceous scales. The sun organism is most…
Sporozoa are parasitic in nature. They have no locomotory organ that is cilia, flagella and pseudopodia are absent. Contractile vacuoles are also absent. They have pellicle covering. Asexual and Sexual…
Plasmodium is the malaria parasite and has couple of hosts which include female anopheles mosquito and human beings. Female mosquito is the primary host of malaria parasite in which sexual…
In human beings infective stage of plasmodium known as sporozoite occurs. These are transferred into the man by female mosquito through its salivary gland. It goes inside the liver and…
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