Protista refers to one of the kingdoms of organisms commonly called protists. They were first described by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in the 1860s. Until this time, biologists recognized two kingdoms, the Plantae and Animalia. Haeckel observed...

Single-celled organisms which have both plant and animal characteristics. They range from viruses (30–300 nm) to protozoa (500–50 000 nm). They are divided into prokaryotes, which do not have genetic material divided from the rest of the...

The kingdom Protista is the most diverse of all the five Eukaryotic kingdoms. There are more than 200,000 known species of protists with many more yet to be discovered. Protists can be found in countless colors, sizes, and shapes. They inhabit just...

Protists (IPA: /ˈproʊtɨst/), Greek protiston -a meaning the (most) first of all ones, are a diverse group of organisms, comprising those eukaryotes that cannot be classified in any of the other kingdoms as fungi, animals, or plants. They are usually...

INTRODUCTION SKELETONIZED PROTiSTS (or protoctists) appear as body fossils in the late Neoproterozoic and the lower Cambrian (e.g., Allison and Hilgert, 1986; Lipps, 1992; Culver, 1994; Porter et al., 2003) and are well known from the post-Cambrian fossil record. However, molecular data and...

The Kingdom Protists. videocassette. color. 22 min. with tchr's. guide online. Educational Video Network. 2000. #133V. $59.95. Gr 8-12--Protists are the "catchall" kingdom of the living world, as this video explains at the beginning. The presentation is divided into four parts: a...

Explores the world of protists. Provides information about how they move, reproduce, etc. Written in the style of a news report.