Which common protist am I?

Hold up the protist that you think the clue goes with

Who Am I?

• I move by means of pseudopods to engulf food and travel

• Ameoba

• I have chloroplast to carry out photosynthesis

Volvox or Euglena

• We have contractile vacuoles

Ameoba, paramecium, euglena

• My trichocysts help in protecting me

• Paramecium

• My movement doesn’t only depend on my cilia, I also rely on the water temperature (70-80 degrees is best)

• Blepharisma

• I belong to the Sarcodine phylum

• Ameoba

• I belong to the green algae phylum

• Volvox

• I use my cilia to sweep down food through my trumpet shaped body

• Stentor

• I possess two flagella and no cell wall

• Euglena

• I am rose colored and can be said to be cannibalistic because I eat other smaller ciliates like myself

• Blepharisma

• I can behave like an autotroph or heterotroph

• Euglena

• I am green in color because of chlorophyll, form hollow spheres, and can perform photosynthesis

• Volvox

• I have a full digestive tract and feed on algae and even dog fur

• Blepharisma

• My myonemes allow me to contract into a ball

• Stentor

• My eyespot helps me to use the sun to obtain energy

• Euglena