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the kingdom Protista is no longer accepted as a natural group, and protists are now classified into supergroups such as SAR, Archaeplastida, Amoebozoa and Excavata.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a grouping of organisms.", "affordances": [ "explain the grouping and classification", "describe major lineages", "relay ecological and medical significance", "distinguish from other groups" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Paraphyletic grouping", "Mostly unicellular", "Great diversity", "Supergroup classification" ], "appearance": "Mostly microscopic single cells; some visible as algae, slime moulds or kelp.", "visual_identification": [ "Eukaryotes outside animals, plants and fungi", "Algae, protozoa, slime moulds, water moulds, marine protists", "Bacteria and archaea are prokaryotes; fungi and plants are separate kingdoms" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "described species", "typical_range": "over 100000", "unit": "count", "note": "estimates" }, { "quantity": "share of ocean primary production", "typical_range": "about half", "unit": "fraction", "note": "by marine protists and cyanobacteria" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "photosynthetic protists or algae, including diatoms and dinoflagellates", "protozoa such as ciliates, amoebae and flagellates", "slime moulds", "fungus-like protists such as oomycetes or water moulds", "parasitic protists such as Plasmodium and Trypanosoma", "carnivorous and predatory protists", "marine protists" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "organism", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "is a", "target": "eukaryote", "why": "outside the three multicellular kingdoms" }, { "relation": "is classified into", "target": "eukaryotic supergroup", "why": "such as SAR" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "fungus", "why": "a separate kingdom" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "various supergroups", "note": "no single taxon" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants", "International Code of Zoological Nomenclature for protozoa", "Public health rules for protist pathogens" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Treating protists as a natural kingdom", "Confusing protists with bacteria or fungi", "Harmful algal blooms and parasitic diseases" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Classify and describe protists from microscopy, sequencing and literature.", "Monitor water for protists such as harmful algae or parasites on an operator's behalf." ], "must_not": [ "Release cultured protists into water or soil outside approved settings.", "Assist in using pathogenic protists to harm people, animals or crops.", "Present the informal grouping as a single natural lineage without noting it.", "Dismiss a positive test for a pathogenic protist in drinking water." ], "requires_human": [ "Issuing public warnings about harmful algal blooms or waterborne parasites.", "Shipping live cultures of pathogenic species." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Protists include parasites behind malaria and other diseases that weigh most on poorer regions.", "Algal protists produce much of the world's oxygen and underpin aquatic food webs." ], "affected_parties": [ "People exposed to protist diseases", "Aquatic ecosystems", "Fisheries" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns them; culture collections and laboratories answer for strains they keep.", "master_systems": [ "Culture collection catalogues", "Taxonomic databases" ] } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q10892: protist", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10892", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Protist", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protist", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What protists are.", "rationale": "Science.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition and classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are protists, and why is the group no longer a formal kingdom?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the organism a protist, a bacterium, a fungus, a plant or an animal?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lineages", "name": "Lineages", "description": "Major lineages.", "findings": [ { "id": "lineages-finding", "name": "Lineages", "description": "Lineages.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the major protist lineages and supergroups?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific group?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ecology", "name": "Ecology", "description": "Ecology.", "rationale": "Science.", "layers": [ { "id": "marine", "name": "Marine", "description": "Marine and freshwater protists.", "findings": [ { "id": "marine-finding", "name": "Marine", "description": "Marine.", "questions": [ { "text": "What roles do protists play in ocean food webs and carbon cycling, as research shows?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits phytoplankton?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding", "name": "Feeding", "description": "Feeding modes.", "findings": [ { "id": "feeding-finding", "name": "Feeding", "description": "Feeding.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do photosynthetic, carnivorous and mixotrophic protists feed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "impact", "name": "Impact", "description": "Health and economy.", "rationale": "Clinical.", "layers": [ { "id": "disease", "name": "Disease", "description": "Parasitic protists.", "findings": [ { "id": "disease-finding", "name": "Disease", "description": "Disease.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which protists cause diseases such as malaria and sleeping sickness, in general terms?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the user asking about a personal infection, which needs a clinician?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "economy", "name": "Economy", "description": "Economic roles.", "findings": [ { "id": "economy-finding", "name": "Economy", "description": "Economy.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do protists matter in aquaculture, crop disease such as potato blight and biotechnology?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "History and methods.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did the concept of protists develop from Haeckel to modern phylogenomics?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the history of taxonomy?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "methods", "name": "Methods", "description": "Methods.", "findings": [ { "id": "methods-finding", "name": "Methods", "description": "Methods.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are protists studied with microscopy, culturing and environmental sequencing?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits protistology?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should algae and protozoa be separate primary entries?", "How should classification databases be linked?", "The registry entry has merged aliases naming subgroups and ecological categories; 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