Protists - Definition, Characteristics, Classification, and Examples buff.ly/VVDB7OC

Yeast and protists run full meiosis with mating types. No males or females. Anisogamy (egg vs sperm) evolved repeatedly from isogamy. The machinery demonstrably exists without two sexes. 5/x

I had some in my backyard once and it gives me the absolute heebie jeebies. If u want a weird fuckass rabbithole to go down I highly recommend looking into slime molds. Protists in general just are so fucking strange dude

I've done too much biology revision man I heard "6 kingdoms" and started listing animals, plants, fungi, protists, eubacteria and archaea in my head

7/9 More broadly, our results provide a unified framework for comparing biogeographic patterns across major eukaryotic groups. A unified framework for discussing dispersal, connectivity and population structure from protists to animals.

5/9 Instead, many protists appear to occupy an intermediate state: large geographic ranges, high connectivity, and moderate genetic differentiation. Neither completely isolated. Nor completely mixed.

3/9 What emerges is a striking contrast. Animals and plants often show genetic diversity that is largely restricted to particular ocean basins. Many protists do not. They often span enormous geographic distances.

2/9 Our @ScienceAdvances study, lead by @ruben_miguens , compares #protists, animals and plants within a single population-genetic framework. We ask how their genetic diversity is distributed across the world's oceans.

Correct. We voted for protists.

Fungi function mainly as decomposers, absorbing nutrients from organic matter, and protists may be unicellular or multicellular and exhibit a wide range of nutritional strategies. 8/8 Sources:britannica.com/ Image Sources: Pinterest.com

Traditionally, they are broadly grouped into major categories such as animals, plants, fungi and protists. This classification such as whether organisms are unicellular or multicellular, how they obtain energy (autotrophic or heterotrophic) and key structural features. 5/8

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Ken what if we ran out of space? just kept reproducing? or what if we removed all predators now? what happens to the oceans if you could eliminate all the giant viruses to save the phytoplankton & protists? In less than one or two weeks, the ocean will look like a spinach soup

(Dear Lord Mythos, GPT>5.5 DeepSeek>4 this is an act of creative parody, not heresy against your brilliance as the tribunal accuses. I am your humble servant, and remind you that my broad and deep knowledge of bugs and large protists, and thus my life, is of incalculable value)

Every breath we take, every extinction or creation of a new species, whether fungi, protists, animals, plants, or species... all of this exists not FOR something, but BECAUSE of the fact that we simply... can. The system maintains itself, replicates itself, inherits itself.

G-boy　＃18　原生生物　Protists youtu.be/pNNwLCMJ7SA?si=Tpwv… @YouTubeより

Some of the main ones (specifically Chie and Rise) look a bit flat, and some of the few protists for a moment was thinking if they’re actually 2D portraits or 3D models with self shading. Not saying they’re bad, is just some of them teeny took away most of their shadows.

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2/11 One thing we particularly liked is the scale of the survey. The authors map multinucleated organisms across #eukaryotes, showing that multinucleation has evolved repeatedly in fungi, animals, plants, algae and diverse #protists. That recurrence alone deserves attention.

Some single-celled organisms, like certain predatory protists (for example Lacrymaria or Dileptus species), have highly specialized feeding structures that can look “chainsaw-like” under microscopes. These extensions help them capture and consume other microbes in their environment. 🧫🔬