Protistan Movement

Cilia and Flagella--continued from previous lecture

Both have 9  + 2 arrangement of microfibrils

Cytoplasm is structured

Actin, myosin, kinesin, microtubles

Relationship to energy production and storage

High energy phosphates (AMP, ADP, ATP, Creatinine phosphate)

Fibril contraction, functionality of Ca++

Pseudopodia

Types

lobopodia
filopodia
rhizopodia

Structure of the protists

Ectoplasm

Endoplasm

Physiological differentiation of the protist (look at image on second page)

Plasma sol

Plasma gel

Functionality of colloids

Article from Reader's Digest on application of colloids.

Mechanisms of movement


push theory
pull theory

Work of Dr. James Allen at Dartmouth