{"id":1335,"date":"2017-01-18T22:42:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-biology2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1335"},"modified":"2017-04-11T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:10:11","slug":"why-it-matters-protists","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/chapter\/why-it-matters-protists\/","title":{"raw":"Why It Matters: Protists","rendered":"Why It Matters: Protists"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Why discuss the organisms in Kingdom Protista?<\/h2>\r\nProtists exist as a kind of \"grey area\" in biology. 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The organisms found in this kingdom are varied, and\u00a0often seem like they might be more closely related to organisms in another kingdom: some protists resemble bacteria, some resemble fungi, and some resemble plants.<\/p>\n<p>One group of these plant-like protists are the micro-algae.\u00a0Watch this video to learn how these microscopic organisms could serve as a future fuel source:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"Jonathan Trent: Energy from floating algae pods\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X-HE4Hfa-OY?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Learning Outcomes<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify the common characteristics of protists<\/li>\n<li>Classify protists into unique categories<\/li>\n<li>Describe the role that protists play in the ecosystem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1335\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Why It Matters: Protists. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Shelli Carter and Lumen Learning. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Energy from floating algae pods. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Jonathan Trent. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: TED. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X-HE4Hfa-OY\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/X-HE4Hfa-OY<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>All Rights Reserved<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Standard YouTube License<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Why It Matters: Protists\",\"author\":\"Shelli Carter and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"Energy from floating algae pods\",\"author\":\"Jonathan Trent\",\"organization\":\"TED\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X-HE4Hfa-OY\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"arr\",\"license_terms\":\"Standard YouTube License\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"ab7cc207-217d-4d1d-b831-dbd7a368a7a4","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1335","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":19,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1335\/revisions\/3804"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/19"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1335\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}