Protist Lab

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Protist Lab

Purpose: To locate and identify as many Protists and Invertebrate animals and classify them according to their characteristics.

Hypothesis: We think that we will identify many Protists and Invertebrates.

Materials: Piece of paper, microscope, pond water, pencil, slip and cover.

Procedure: Step 1: Bring in pond water

Step 2: Fold a blank piece of paper into four equal squares

Step 3: Draw circles

Step 4: Plug in microscope

Step 5: Get slide and cover

Step 6: Put pond water on slide

Step 7: Drop of pond water on slide

Step 8: Diagram the living organisms

Data:

Filter for color Green

Name	Color	Speed	Mode of transportation
A14	Green	Slow	Blob
A19	Green, Blue	None	None
B12	Green, Yellow	Slow	Blob
B13	Green	None	Blob
B14	Green	Slow	Slithered
B20	Green	Slow	Blob
B22	Green	Slow	Blob

Filter for all other colors

Name	Color	Speed	Mode of transportation
A1	Clear	Fast	Legs
A2	Brown	Slow	Legs
A3	Clear	Fast	Slithered
A4	Clear	Slow	Tail
A5	Brown	Slow	Slithered
A6	Brown	Fast	Slithered
A7	Brown	Fast	Tail
A8	Blue	None	None
A9	Brown	Slow	Tail
A10	Clear	Slow	Slithered
A11	Clear	Slow	Legs
A12	Clear	Fast	Tail
A13	Blue	None	None
A15	Clear, Red	Slow	Slithered
A16	Red	Fast	Legs
A17	Red	Fast	Slithered
A18	Brown	Fast	Tail
A20	Brown	Slow	Blob
A21	Brown	Fast	Legs
A22	Brown, blue	Slow	Blob
A23	Brown	Fast	Tail
A24	Clear, Brown	Slow	Leg
B1	Clear	Fast	Slithered
B2	Orange, Brown	Fast	Legs
B3	Brown	Slow	Blob
B4	Brown	Fast	Legs
B5	Blue	Fast	Tail
B6	Clear	Slow	Slithered
B7	Brown	Fast	Tail
B8	Brown	Fast	Tail
B9	Clear	Slow	Tail
B10	Red	None	Blob
B11	Brown	None	Blob
B15	Red	Fast	Legs
B16	Red	Fast	Slithered
B17	Red	Fast	Slithered
B18	Clear, Brown	Fast	Blob
B19	Clear	Slow	Legs
B21	Blue, Clear	Slow	Legs
B23	Orange	Fast	Blob
B24	Brown, Clear	Slow	Blob

Filter for Mode of transportation (Legs)

Name	Color	Speed	Mode of transportation
A1	Clear	Fast	Legs
A2	Brown	Slow	Legs
A11	Clear	Slow	Legs
A16	Red	Fast	Legs
A21	Brown	Fast	Legs
A24	Clear, Brown	Slow	Leg
B2	Orange, Brown	Fast	Legs
B4	Brown	Fast	Legs
B15	Red	Fast	Legs
B19	Clear	Slow	Legs
B21	Blue, Clear	Slow	Legs

Filter for Mode of transportation (blob)

Name	Color	Speed	Mode of transportation
A14	Green	Slow	Blob
A20	Brown	Slow	Blob
A22	Brown, blue	Slow	Blob
B3	Brown	Slow	Blob
B10	Red	None	Blob
B11	Brown	None	Blob
B12	Green, Yellow	Slow	Blob
B13	Green	None	Blob
B18	Clear, Brown	Fast	Blob
B20	Green	Slow	Blob
B22	Green	Slow	Blob
B23	Orange	Fast	Blob
B24	Brown, Clear	Slow	Blob

filter for mode of transportation (slithered)

Name	Color	Speed	Mode of transportation
A3	Clear	Fast	Slithered
A5	Brown	Slow	Slithered
A6	Brown	Fast	Slithered
A10	Clear	Slow	Slithered
A15	Clear, Red	Slow	Slithered
A17	Red	Fast	Slithered
B1	Clear	Fast	Slithered
B6	Clear	Slow	Slithered
B14	Green	Slow	Slithered
B16	Red	Fast	Slithered
B17	Red	Fast	Slithered

Filter for mode of transportation (tail)

Name	Color	Speed	Mode of transportation
A4	Clear	Slow	Tail
A7	Brown	Fast	Tail
A9	Brown	Slow	Tail
A12	Clear	Fast	Tail
A18	Brown	Fast	Tail
A23	Brown	Fast	Tail
B5	Blue	Fast	Tail
B7	Brown	Fast	Tail
B8	Brown	Fast	Tail
B9	Clear	Slow	Tail

Filter for mode of transportation (none)

Name	Color	Speed	Mode of transportation
A8	Blue	None	None
A13	Blue	None	None
A19	Green, Blue	None	None

Conclusion: Through the use of filters we divided the organisms into two groups heterotrophic and autotrophic. We did this by selecting for the color green. Since green organisms have chlorophyll for photosynthesis, they create their own food. Other organisms without green color we called heterotrophic, since they have to eat other organisms to live. We then divided them into five groups based on the mode of transportation. The modes of transportation are legs, blob, slithered, tail, and none.

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