General Biology II · Module 6 · Protists

Protists Walkthrough

Zoom from a pond, a kelp forest and a person with malaria down to single cells and the membranes around a chloroplast. Watch cilia beat, an amoeba crawl, a cyanobacterium become a chloroplast, Plasmodium hop between hosts, and diatoms pull carbon into the deep sea. Go at your own pace. Nothing here is graded.

Speed

Think of it like this

Quick check

Wrong answers are fine here. Read why, then try again.

Dr. Akash Garg · General Biology II Study Tools · Drawings are simplified and not to scale. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Use the left and right arrow keys to move between steps. Sizes, rates and global percentages are typical textbook values, rounded for teaching; animation speeds are exaggerated. Practise next in the Protists Lab.