Condensed greatly from Tree of Life for taxa from Kingdom Protista covered in Zool250

BASAL EUKARYOTA
(P/B refers to Pearse/Pearse/Buchsbaum/Buchsbaum, 1987, Living Invertebrates)

     =================== Diplomonads (P/B phylum Metamonadida, zooflagellate,Giardia)
     |
     |         =================================== TO CROWN EUKARYOTES ===>
<<=E=|   ======|
     |   |     |======== Entamoebae (P/B phylum Amoebozoa); rhizopod sarcodine (Amoeba)
     |   |     |  
     =Mt=|     ========= Granuloreticulosa; foraminifera
         |
         |          =Cp= Euglenida; phytoflagellate (Euglena)
         =Euglenozoa|
                    ==== Kinetoplastida; zooflagellate (Trypanosoma

TRAITS MAPPED ON ABOVE TREE: E= eukaryote traits (mitosis, membrane-bound organelles including: nucleus, rough endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus?, lysosomes?) Mt= mitochondria Cp= chloroplast

CROWN EUKARYOTES (condensed greatly from Tree of Life on WWW)

               =======BGM========================================= TO METAZOA ===>
          =DCh=|
        ==|    === Choanoflagellata; zooflagellate
        | |
        | ===M==== Fungi (mushrooms, molds, yeast, etc.)
     ===|
     |  Cp
     |  |  ======= Chlorophyceae (unicellular green algae); phytoflagellate (Chlamydamonas, Volvox)
     |  |==|
     |  |  ==M==== Embryophytes (land plants)
     |  |
     |  =====M==== Rhodophyta (red algae)
     |
     |     ==N==== Ciliophora (Paramecium, Stentor, Spirostoma)
<<===|     |
     |  ===|  =Cp= Dinoflagellata; phytoflagellate
     |  |  ===|
     ===|     ==== Euapicomplexa (P/B phylum Apicomplexa, sporozoan, Plasmodium)
        Cp
        |====M==== Stramenopiles (incl. P/B phylum Diatomae= diatoms, brown algae & other taxa)
        |
        ========== "radiolaria" (P/B phylum Acantharia); actinopod sarcodine (Phaeodaria)

TRAITS MAPPED ON ABOVE TREE: B= blastula Ch= choanocyte (monociliated cells with ring of microvilli around flagellum & distinct flagellar vane) D= diplosome (microtubular flagellar root) G= collagen Cp= chloroplast M= multicellularity N= micro- & macro-nucleus

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