In this article we will discuss about the structure of trichomonas. This will also help you to draw the structure and diagram of trichomonas.
(1) These are endoparasites in the vaginal mucous of human beings causing trichomoniasis.
(2) Body flattened but oval and is having four small flagelia on the anterior side. Of these one flagellum runs postery along the undulating membrane & is called posterior flagellum body. One thick and fixed exostyle is present at the posterior side.
(3) Cytoplasm is not differentiated into ectoplasm & endoplasm.
(4) There is also present, on one side, an undulating membrane, which do not run the whole length of body.
(5) A large nucleus is present at the anterior end, near the base of flagelia and close to the nucleus a small cytostome is also present.
(6) Two parabasal fibers arise from the basal 1 body complex.
(7) Large number of chromatophores are present in the cytoplasm.
(8) Nutrition holophytic and saprozoic and reproduction through fission.