They will avoid areas where DO levels are below 3 mg/L, but generally do not begin to suffer fatalities due to oxygen depletion until levels fall below 2 mg/L 22. The mean DO levels should remain near 5.5 mg/L for optimum growth and survival Â¹Â².n a stable body of water with no stratification, dissolved oxygen will remain at 100% air saturation. 100% air saturation means that the water is holding as many dissolved gas molecules as it can in equilibrium.
Lesson Summary. 1  Most protist diseases in humans are caused by protozoa. 2  Protozoa make humans sick when they become human parasites. 3  Trypanosoma protozoa cause Chagas disease and sleeping sickness. 4  Giardia protozoa cause giardiasis, and Plasmodium protozoa cause malaria.esson Summary. 1  Most protist diseases in humans are caused by protozoa. 2  Protozoa make humans sick when they become human parasites. 3  Trypanosoma protozoa cause Chagas disease and sleeping sickness. 4  Giardia protozoa cause giardiasis, and Plasmodium protozoa cause malaria.
Some protists reproduce sexually using gametes, while others reproduce asexually by binary fission. Some species, for example Plasmodium falciparum, have extremely complex life cycles that involve multiple forms of the organism, some of which reproduce sexually and others asexually.ther protists include pathogenic species such as the kinetoplastid Trypanosoma brucei, which causes sleeping sickness and species of the apicomplexan Plasmodium which cause malaria.