Animal-like+Protists+1

===//Animal-like Protists // ===

Some basic information

 * Protists have many of the same characteristics as animals do.


 * Such protists include ciliates, and paramecia.


 * These aquatic organisms eat bacteria, sediments that contain bacteria, and algae.


 * Amoeba are protists that engulf their food by flowing around and over it.


 * saprotrophs, another kinda of protist, feed on decayed organic material

Protists live in almost any environment that contains liquid water

Protists can be both beneficial and harmful. Some protists such as plasmodium, malaria can be harmful because they can cause diseases. Other protists such as trichonymhp breaks down wood that is digested by termites and that can be beneficial. Humans affect protists bio-geography by increasing parasite ranges through human migrations and by water pollution.



Invertebrates