What are some distinguishing characteristics of protozoa?

Answer 1

Protozoa are unicellular and microscopic. They can move independently. Most lack the capability for photosynthesis. Protozoa live in moist habitats. Some species of protozoa are parasitic.

• unicellular eukaryotics microorganisms
• they move by 3 types of locomotion; pseudopods, flagella and cilia.
• they have variety of shapes.
• live as free entities or parasites.
• can reproduce sexually or asexually

Answer 2

-Most are Unicellular

-Many are free living, thriving in environments with water

-Green algae have chloroplasts and perform photosynthesis

-Some dinoflagellates cause red tides

Answer 3

oh you mean characteristics well...i can tell you about unicellular protozoa, it has an oraganized nucleus unlike fungi or bacteria, there are two examples: amoeba and plasmodium where there are different characteristics in each, they are: amoeba: lives in water and marine, the body is covered by a single cell membrane the cytoplasm contains ectoplasm and endoplasm, the movement and ingestion of food is done by pseudopodia they have two types of vacuoles: contractive vacuole and food vacuole the food vacuole stores food particles until they get digested and contractive vacuoles help in asmoregulation., also they reproduce by binaryfussion. while: plasmodium is a parasite,they reproduce by multiple fussion, this parasite is carried by the female mosquito: anophilis.

Answer 4

Protozoans are singled celled microscopic animals who were first to be evolved. they live in freshwater ,sea and soil and maybe free living or parasitic .Parasitic protozoans cause diseases in the host animal

Answer 5

Protozoa are unicellular organisms that can be found in various aquatic and terrestrial environments. They move using cilia, flagella, or pseudopods and can reproduce through asexual or sexual methods. They exhibit diverse feeding mechanisms, such as phagocytosis or absorption of nutrients through their cell membranes.

Answer 6

All protists are eukaryotes and have a nucleus containing DNA

Answer 7

Some of the general characteristics of protozoa's are that they move independently and usually lack the capability of photosynthesis. Protozoa's are eukaryotic microorganisms.