Flagellata
Flagellata
Flagellar (flagellum, whip) motility, asexual reproduction (binary fission)
Intestine (small): giardia (cysts/trophs)
Blood (outside RBC): trypanosoma brucei
Tissue (reticuloendothelial system, CNS): trypanosoma cruzi, (liver, spleen, skin/mucous membrane) Leishmania spp., (vagina, urethra) trichomonas vaginalis
Kinetoplastida (group of flagellata characteristed by the presence of an organelle with a large massed DNA called kinetoplast): T. brucei/ T. cruzi), leishmania donovani
Amastigote: nucleus & kinetoplast (i.e. protist cell without flagella)
Promastigote: nucleus & kinetoplast & flagellum
Epimastigote: nucleus & kinetoplast & flagellum & undulating membrane
Trypomastigote: nucleus & kinetoplast & flagellum & undulating membrane
Difference is in the size of the kinetoplast