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there is evidence that all living organissm were confined to the ocean less than |
1 billion years ago |
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___________ began making the transition from water to land about 400 million years ago and gave rise to land plants |
green algae |
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kingdom protista includes |
organisms that all have eukaryotic cells - may be unicellular or multicellular and occur as either colonies or filaments - some nonmotile, most are motile |
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modes of nutrition of kingdom protista organisms are |
photosynthesis, ingestion of food, combination of both, absorption of food in solution |
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green algae |
chlorophyta |
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green algae (chlorophyta) |
have cells with the same pigments and reserve food (starch) as those of higher plants |
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in green algae the chloroplasts of chlamydomonas have |
pyrenoids |
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in green algae the cells have |
two or more vacuoles and often a red eyespot ; asexual reproduction is by mitosis and sexual reproduction is isogamous |
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asexual reprodcuction in green algae is |
mitosis |
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sexual reprouction in green algae is |
isogamous |
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pyrenoids |
1-2 round pyrenoids are in each chloroplsst - proteinaceous structures assoiated with the syntheis of starch |
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pairs of cells appear to be attached to each other by their |
flagella and fucntion as gamete that of 2 types forming xygotes as cell walls break down - new thick bumpy wall forms areound each zygote |
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cell contents in sexual reproduction now undergo |
meiosis, producing 4 haploid zoospores, when zygote wall breaks the zoospores swim away and gorw to full sized chlamydomonas cells |
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motile cells that do not unite with other cells; many different kinds of algae produce these |
zoospores |
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threadlike algae in twigs, rocks in freshwater |
ulotrix - basal cell is longer and functions as an attachment cell or holdfast |
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cell that hav ethe capacity to become motile are called |
aplanospores |
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sexual reproduction involving gametes of ulothrix is called |
isogamy |
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ulothrix |
filamentous green algae that may be attached to objects by means of a holdfast - each cell containa curved plate chloroplast around the periphery - asexual reproduction is by zoospores - sexual reproduciton is isgoamous |
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ulothrix green algae asexual reproduction is by |
zoospores |
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ulothrix green algae sexual reproduciton is |
isogamous |
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spirogyra is |
floating fliamentous green algae with spiral, ribbon like chloroplasts - asexual reproduction by fragmentation - sexual reproduction by conjugation |
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spirogyra asexual reproduction by |
fragementaion |
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spirogyra sexual reproduction by |
conjugation |
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odeogeonium is an |
epiphytic, philamentous green alga - it has cylindrical, netted chloroplasts - in asexual reproduction zoospores are produced - sexual reproduction is oogamous |
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in oedogonium sexual reproduciton is |
oogamous |
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in oedogonium aesexual reproduction |
zoospores are produced |
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in oedogonium chloroplasts are |
cylindrical and netted |
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in spirogyra chloroplasts are |
spiral and riboon like |
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in ulothrix chloroplasts are |
curved plate chloroplast around periphery |
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chloroplasts of chlamydomonas have pyronoids and cells have two or more vacuoles and a red eyspt |
green algae (chlorophyta) |
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other green algae include |
chlorella, desmids, acetabularia, volvox, ulva, and cladophora |
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several classes of chromophyta include |
yellow-green algae, the true golden- brown algae, the diatoms, the brown algae - some members produce statospores |
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diatoms are very |
abundant - they have glassy shell that consists of two halves that ift together like a box with a lid |
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fucoxanthin gives a |
golden brown color to most chromophytes - some diatoms move by contact of the cytoplasm with a surface as it prodrudes through the pores |
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diatoms reproduce |
asexually by mitosis and sexually through the fusion of gametes the form an auxospore (zygote) |
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diatoms repoduce asexually through |
mitosis |
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diatoms repoduce sexually |
through the fusion of gametes that form and auxospore (zygote) |
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many brown algae (phaeophyceae) are |
large seaweeds - their thallus often may be differentiated into a stipe, flatten blades, and a holdfast |
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brown algae |
phaeophyceae |
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many brown algae have a |
thallus |
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term for multicellular bodies that are usually flattend and not organized into leaves, stems, and roots |
thallus (pl. thalli) |
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toughtm sinewy structure rersmbling a mass of interwined roots |
holdfast |
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in brown algae - stalk that consitutes the stipe is |
hollow with meristem at base or blade junctions, oldest parts of the blades are at the tips |
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blades of most brown algae are |
photosynthetic and may have gas filled floats called bladders toward their bases - may include 10% carbon monoxide |
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brown algae reflects |
-fucoxnthin - has pigments chlorophyll a and c |
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color of brown algae is largely due to |
fucoxanthin |
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main carbohydrate food reserve of brown algae is |
laminarin |
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some brown algae produce |
algin, a useful gelatinous substance |
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the reproductive cells of brown algae (phaeophyceae) |
have lateral flagella - common rockweed, fucus, produce eggs and sperms that form zygotes in the water |
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fucus |
produce eggs and sperms that form zygotes in the water |
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most red algae (rhadophyta) |
represented by polysiphonia, are seaweeds with life cycles that involve three different types of thalli and nonmotile gametes |
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rhadophyta |
red algae |
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phaeophyceae |
brown algae |
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these are seaweeds with life cycles that involve 3 different types of thalli and nonmotile gametes |
rhodophyta red algae |
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in red algae meiosis occurs on a thallus called |
tetralsporophyte - gametes are produced on a seperate male and female thalli |
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polsiphonia |
feathery red alga widespread in marine waters - 3 types of thalli - male gametophyte, female gemopyte, tetrasporophyte - all resemble eachotehr outwardly |
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spermatangia |
male sex structures in polysiphonia red algae resemble desne clusters on slim branches of male gametophyte thallus |
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each spermatangium contains a single |
spermatium that funcitons as a non motile male gamete |
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female sex structure s in polysiphonia are called |
carpogonia and are produced on female gametophyte thalus - lock neck called a trichogyne - single nucleus at base of the carpogonium fuctions as the female gamete or egg |
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red and blue phycobilins are paritally responsible for the colors of |
red algae |
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phycobilins |
light capturing bilanes found in cyanobacteria and the chloroplasts of red algae, glaucophytes, and some cryptomonads |
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red algae color |
red and blue phycobilins and chlorophyll d |
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main carb food reserve of red algae is |
floridean starch |
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some red algae produce |
agar, economically important gelatinous substance |
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euglenoids (euglenophyta) |
no rigid cell wall, one funcitonal flagellum, a gullet, and paramylon as a food reserve |
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food reserve of euglenoids |
paramlon |
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reproduction of euglenoids is |
cell division - sexual reproduction not been confirmed |
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dinoflagellates (dinophyta) are |
unicellular organisms with 2 flagella inserted at right angles to each other - some cause red tides that can kill fish and poison humans - in tropical water they exhibit bioluminescence when disturbed |
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these may cause red tides that can kill fish and poison humans |
dinflagellates |
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when these are distrubed in tropical waters they exhibit bioluminescence |
dinoflagellates |
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bioluminscence |
emission of light |
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the cryptomonads (cryptophyta) are |
biflagellated, unicellular algae with two chloroplasts and an extra vestigial nucleus (nucleomorph) |
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extra vestigial nucleus |
nucleomorph - crypotomonads |
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haptophytes (prymnesiophyta) |
biflagellated cells with a flagellum like haptonema that aids in the capture of food |
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stoneworts (charophyta) |
branched green organsism that superficially resemble horsetails |
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branched green organsism that superficially resemble horsetails |
stonewars ( charophyta ) |
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algae are ecologically and economically important |
true |
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diatomaceous earth is used for |
filtering, polishes, insulation, and reflectorized paint |
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chlorella is used for |
potential food and oxygen source |
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algin is used |
as a stabilizer and thickening agent in hundreds of products |
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some brown algae are a source of |
fertilizer, iodine, and food |
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red algae are a source of |
agar and food and have potential medicinal value |
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the plasmodial slime molds which are animal like in their vegetative state consist of |
multinucleate mass of protoplasm called a plasmodium that flows over damp sufaces ingesting food particles |
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plasmodium |
flows over damp surfaces ingesting foods and is a mass of protplasm that plasmodial slime molds have |
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slime molds form stationary |
sporangia that contain spores from which myxamoebae or swarm spores emerge upon germination |
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myxamoebae or swarm spores funciton as |
gametes, with new plasmodia developing form the zygotes |
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cellular slime molds produce |
pseudoplasmodium that crawls like a slug and can covert to a stationary, sporangiuim like mass of spores |
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water mods have |
coenocytic mycelia and include organisms that cause diseases of fish and other aquatic orgnsism |
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asexual reproduction of water molds involve |
zoospores |
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gametes of watermolds are produced in |
oogonoia and antheridia |
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water molds |
oomycetes |
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found on dead insects , aquatic organisms |
water molds oomycetes |
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water molds and brown algae common features |
- eggs (oogamy), cellulose in the cell walls, a predominatly diploid life cycle, and zoospores with two flagella |
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oogmay |
eggs |
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is a motile asexual spore that uses a flagellum for locomotion. Also called a swarm spore |
zoospore |
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is a haploid structure or organ producing and containing male gametes |
antheridia |
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what forms of sexual and asexual reproduction occur in green algae |
chlorophyta- sexual is isogamous, asexual is mitosis ulothrix- sexual is isogamous, asexual is zoospores spirogyra- sexual is conjugation, asexual is fragmentation oedogeonium- sexual is oogamous, asexual is zoospores produced diatoms- sexual is fusion of gametes that form an auxospore, asexual is mitosis |
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gametangia |
structres where gametes are produced are formed - in receptacles |
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brown algae- asexual fragmentation, some produce atuosporesrockweed fucus- seperate male and female thali are produced |
non green algae |
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euglenoids- reprodcution is cell division, sexual reproduciton has not been confirmed |
phylum euglenophyta |
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phylum rhodophyta |
red algae |
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phylum dinphyta |
dinoflagellates |
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phylum cryptophyta |
cryptomonads |
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phylum charophyta |
stonewarts |
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phylum prymnesiophyta (haptophyta) |
haptophytes |
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how would you distinguish chlamydomonas from euglena |
chlamydomonas- plantae kingdom, green algae group : chlorophyceae, cell wall has cellulose, reserve food in starch, 2 vacuole, asexual repreoduciton = zoospores, aplanospores and hypnospores. euglena- protista kingdom, euglenoids, reserve food in paramylum or paramylon, 1 vacuole, asexual reproduction = binary fusion |
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spirogyra, ulothrix and oedogonium all form filament. how can you tell them apart? |
shape of their chloroplast spirogyra = spiral, ribbon like chloroplast ulothrix = curved plate chloroplast around the periphery oedogonium = cylindrical, netted chloroplasts |
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in the green algae studied, where in the life cycles does the choromsomes change from haploid to diploid, and vice versa? |
(chlamydomonas)- asexual reproduction brings about no changes in the number of chromosomes and all the cells remain haploid; sexual reproduction produces diploid cell that splits into 4 haploid zoospores, which grow to chlamydomona cells (Ulothrix)- in the zygote stage is the only diploid cells in the cycle , all other cells are haploid (spirogyra)- during sexual reproduciton becomes diploid, in meiosis cells become 4 haploid cells (oedogonium)- during meiosis cange from diploid to 4 haploid |
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plankton |
free floating microscopic organisms |
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green algae store their food in the form of starch within chloroplasts with the exception of - most green algae have a single nucleus and reproduce borth sexually and asexually |
bryopsids, which are multinucleate |
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(chlamydomonas)- |
asexual reproduction brings about no changes in the number of chromosomes and all the cells remain haploid; sexual reproduction produces diploid cell that splits into 4 haploid zoospores, which grow to chlamydomona cells |
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flagellated gametes are of two slighttly differnt sizes |
anisogamy sexual reproduction |
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autospres |
lack the capacity to become motile and are released when the parent cell wall breaks down |
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cells that have the capacity to become motile are |
aplanospores |
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sexual reproduction seen in spirogyra is caleld |
conjugation |
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antheridia are boxlike cells that are formed inthe filaments alongside the vegative cells , male gametes or sperms are roduced in ach antheridium |
tru |
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oogonia |
cells swollen and round that contain a single female gamete or egg |
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Euglena, Chlamydomonas, Amoeba, Paramecium |
all motile |
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how do cells of diatoms differ from those of other organisms |
Diatoms are brown algae generally range in size from 2-200μm, and are composed of a cell wall composed primarily of silica.Diatoms are a major component of the freshwater plankton. |
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diatoms can be converted to |
clean diesel fuel |
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which groups of algae produce 1. agar 2. algin 3. nerve poisons 4. abrasives for polishes |
diatoms = 4. red algae = 1. brown algae = 2. dinoflagelletes= 3. |
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why are some green algae red and some red algae green? |
- some red algae is green because they are red due to the pigment phycoerythin, some rhodophytes have very little of this phycoerythin and appear green. - some green algae is red because idk |
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where and how is algin obtained |
algin is obtained from brown algae or kelp or digesting seaweed in alkali, and extracting algin and refining it - ocean |
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is there any difference in structure between the holdfasts of microscopic green algae and those of brown algae? |
in brown algae the holdfast is tought, sinewy structure resembling a mass of intertwined roots; in green algae it is a attachment cell |
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what is unique about the cells of cryptomonads and those of haptophytes |
they are biflagellated algae haptophytes have haptonema which is a thrid flagellum that is not true because it doesnt fnction ins propulsion, aids in the capture of food |
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cyanobacteria have chlorophyll a and oxygen is produced from photosynthesis - do not have chloroplasts - contain phycobilins (blue pigment) - can both fix nitrogen and produce oxygen |
distinctions between traditional bacteria and cyanobacteria |
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cyanobacteria blue green bacteria live in |
fresh and marine water, not acaidic water - principal photoysnthetic organisms is phytoplankton various temps often pioneer species (first living thing) |
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lichen and cyanobacteria is a |
colonizer |
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chloroplasts and cyanobacteria relationship |
endosymbiosis 1.thought that chloroplasts originated as cyanobacteria living within other cells 2.fossils of cyanobacteria found in australia 3.5 bil years 3. 3 billion years ago, cyanobacteria produced oxygen as byproduct of photosynthesis 4. oxygen accumulated in atmosphere, becoming substantial 1 bill years 5. oxygen accumulated, other photosynthetic organisms appeared and forms of aerobic respiration evolved 6. in last 500 mill years, enough ozone accumulated for a uv shield; photosynthetic organisms can now survive on land. |
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human relevance of cyanobacteria |
abundant in bodies of fresh water in warm months (algal blooms) - nitrogen fixation - found in root nodules - common in pea family - bottom of food chains |
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abundant in bodies of fresh water in warm months (algal blooms)- |
- can cause dead zones - spirulina - swimmers itch (lyngbya) |
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eukaryotic cells size |
10-100 um |
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prokaryotic cells size |
.2-10 um |
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virus size |
.05-.2 um |
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prokaryotic evolution |
bacteria, archaea |
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prokaryotes |
unicellular, no nuclear envelope, no membrane bound organelles, have cell walls |
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prokaryotes reproduce by |
finary fission -asexual - no sexual reproduction -no mitosis or meiosis |
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kingdom protista |
all organisms have eukaryotic cells, reproduction is generally by cell division and some sexual processes, most multi-cellular members produce some motile(moving) cells during life cycle |
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kingdom protista: whos in it |
algae; single cell, colonies, filaments, fungi like orgnaisms(oomycota), single cell heterotrophs that are animal like |
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kingdom protista is |
eukaryotes that are NOT 1. green land non-vascular and vascular plants 2. aquatic non-vascular and vascular plants 3. true fungus 4. true animal |
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all algae algae |
photosynthetic protists - have flattened photosynthetic blades (no true leave, stem, roots, flowers) |
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accessory pigment found in algae |
water soluble, found in cytoplasm(except chlorophyls in thylakoid membrane of the chloroplast) |
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accessory pigments found in algae types |
1. chlorophyll b = green 2. carotenoids = yellow/orange 3. xanthophylls = yellow/green 4. Phycoerythrin/phycobilin = red/blue (red) |
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Short blue wavelengths |
penetrate the deepest into the ocean |
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phylum chlorophyta |
closest relative to land plants - chlorophyll a and b - starch - cellulose in cell wall |
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phylum chlorophyta (green algae) NOT |
not cyanobacteria(blue-green algae) |
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phylum chlorophyta |
single cell, filaments, colonies - found in freshwater or marine environments, bark of trees, rocks, hair and back of animals (sloths and turtles) - found in symbiotic relationships, including lichens, sea anemones |
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phylum chromophyta |
brown algae (chrysophyceae) - mostly single celled or colonial - chlorophyll a and c and fucoxanthin - occur in plankton of bodies of fresh water |
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pigments of phylum chromophyta |
chlorophyll a and c and fucoxanthin(brown) |
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phylum chromophyta family diatoms |
diatoms - pigments: chlorophyll a and c - silica in the cell wall - best known and economically importnat members of this phylum - mostly unicellular - abundant in colder marine habitats |
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foam is |
diatom oil mixed up by waves |
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diatoms, abundant phytoplankton producing up to __% of worlds oxygen |
35 |
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phylum chromophyta : brown algae (phaeophyceae) |
- large, recently added to chromophyta - most are marine organisms - all are multicellular( none unicellular) - thallus differentiated into holdfast, a stipe, and blades - blades may have gas filled bladders ( maintains bouancy) -fucus ( common rockweed ) |
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thallus |
flattened body |
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holdfast |
attaches to rocks |
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stipe is what holds blades |
upwards |
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giant kelp can grow to |
150 feet long at a rate of 2 feet a day |
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phylum rhodophyta |
red algae - chlorophylls a,d, and phycobolins - most species are called seaweed - tend to occur in warmer and deeper waters than brown algae - most are filamentous, so tightly packed that they resemble blades; a few crustose - complex life cycle involving three types of thallus structures - some produce agar |
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red algae members |
nori, coralline algae(secretes calcium carbonate) |
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human significance of algae - diatoms |
oils are sources of vitamins - diatomaceous earth ( scooped off bottom of ocean floor ) - filtration - polishes - reflectorized paint) |
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human significance of algae - algin |
- from brown algae cell walls - produced by giant kelp - thickener - ice cream, salad dressing, latex paint, textiles, ceramincs, waterproofing |
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human significance of algae - agar |
Agar (from red algae cell walls) – Produced by red alga Gelidium • Solidifier of nutrient culture media for growth of bacteria |