How do protists get nutrients to their cells?

Answer 1

Animal-Like Protists

* Once referred to as protozoa, the animal-like protists are alike in that they do not get their nutrients by performing photosynthesis, but instead get them from consuming either other organisms or bits of organic matter. They digest this material internally and have evolved various means of moving toward their prey. The so-called ciliate protists move through use of hair-like cilia surrounding their bodies; amoeboid protists move by means of extending pseudopodia or "false feet." Many amoeboid protists are parasites, and some of them are human parasites that live in the digestive system.

Plant-Like Protists

* Protists that get their nutrition by performing photosynthesis are known as algae. Some algal species provide examples of colonial multicellularity, defined as a form of life in which individual cells form stable associations with one another but do not take on specialized roles. Other algal protists provide examples of true multicellularity: a form of life in which individual cells exist in stable groups, with different cells specializing in different functions.

Fungus-Like Protists

* Some protists get their nutrients by extending slender filaments to a food source, after which they digest that food source externally, in the way fungi do. Protists in this category include the oomycetes, one group of which is known as the water molds. Many oomycetes are saprobes, meaning organisms that obtain their nutrition from dead organic matter. These organisms are thus "decomposers" that help recycle organic matter.

Answer 2

Protozoa may absorb food via their cell membranes, some, i.e. amoebas, surround food and engulf it, and yet others have openings or "mouth pores" into which they sweep food. All protozoa digest their food in stomach-like compartments called vacuoles.

Answer 3

Protists obtain nutrients through various methods such as phagocytosis (engulfing food particles), pinocytosis (absorbing dissolved nutrients through membrane invaginations), and photosynthesis (producing nutrients using light energy). Some protists can also absorb nutrients directly from their environment.

Answer 4

by asuexual reproduction or flagellumphucking.

Answer 5

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