Protist

Key Stage 4

Meaning

A protist is a unicellular eukaryotic organism with a cell membrane, cell wall, cytoplasm, mitochondria, and a nucleus and may also contain chloroplasts.

About Protists

Protists are sometimes called protoctists.

Two protists you may know are; amoeba and euglena.

Examples

A euglena is a type of protist with chloroplasts and a flagellum.	An amoeba is a type of protist which moves using pseudopodia and has no chloroplasts.