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Protists

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Closeup view of two brown spherical objects with a haze of green substance surrounding them. Caption: Often called fire algae, some types of dinoflagellates

What are protists? How do they affect our lives? Examines the environments and structures of different kinds of protists. Some act like plants (Euglena, algae, diatoms, volvox), some like animals (amoebas, ciliates, parameciums, zooflagellates), and some like fungi (slime mold).

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Runtime: 20 minutes, 5 seconds

Topic: Science
Subtopic: Biology, Invertebrates
Grade/Interest Level: 6 - 12
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Release Year: 2001
Producer/Distributor: Visual Learning Systems
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Illustration of a large ant with two green leaves over it and a person standing in front of it. Spanish captions.

Butterfly on pink flowers with green foliage. Spanish captions.

An illustrated ladybug in flowers. Spanish captions.

Crab in the water. Caption: They also have a hard, external skeleton

Microscopic view of a transparent tube-shaped organism. Caption: an energy reserve the cell can draw on

Closeup of an Indian walking stick camouflaged in twigs and leaves. It's brown with a long, thin body and legs.

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Protists, single celled organisms.

Small translucent speckled animal nestled on pebbles. Caption: but the Hawaiian bobtail squid is a master of disguise.

Sea slug crawling on the sea floor. Caption: in the nervous systems of slugs and other animals.