Diversity in Living Organisms


   
 
Phylum Protozoa (Primitive Animals)
 
Features of Protozoans
 
Amoeba is a typical protozoan.
 
 
Unicellular (single celled) animals
 
Aquatic, free-living or parasitic organisms
 
Locomotion with the help of finger-like projections called pseudopodia, cilia or flagella
 
Nutrition is heterotropic
 
Reproduction is by binary or multiple fission and conjugation
 
Example: Amoeba, Euglena, Paramecium, Plasmodium
 
  
     
   
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