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Phylogenetic System 3 domains |
Eubacteria, Archaea, and Eukaraya |
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Synapomorphy |
Defining Feature |
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Synapomorphy Amoebozoa |
Blunt pseudopods |
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Prokaryotes |
Lack membrane bound organelles and lack cytoskeleton |
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Eukaryotes |
nuclei bounded by cell membrane and have a nucleus |
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Prokaryote Domain |
Eubacteria and Archaea |
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Archaea habitat? |
Hostile, hot, acidic, salty |
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Eubacteria feature |
Peptidoglycan Cell walls (keeps them from bursting) |
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Eubacteria shapes |
Spherical (cocci), rod shaped (bacilli) and helical (spirilla) |
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Heterotrophs |
Feed on other things |
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Require oxygen (hereterophs) |
Aerobic |
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Don't require oxygen (heterotrophs) |
Anaerobic |
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Autotrophs |
Get carbon from CO2 (inorganic)( self feeders) |
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Autotrophs require energy from light |
photosynthetic autotrophs |
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Chlorophyll |
Photosynthetic autotrophs light trapping pigment |
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Cynobacteria |
Photosynthetic bacteria; primary producers in aquatic habitats |
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Nitrogen Fixers? |
Cyanobacteria that convert N2 from atmosphere into nitrogen that is useable |
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Eukaryotes classification |
Protists |
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Eukaryotes defining features |
nuclei are bounded by the nuclear membrane (nuclear envelope) |
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Alveolata |
Eukaryote Group; alveoli beneath their plasma membranes. Plasmodium, paramecium, Peridinium |
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Apicomplexans |
Disease causing internal parasites of animals; Plasmodium |
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Apicomplexans (plasmodium) unique feature |
Invade their host using cytoskeleton apparatus called apical complex |
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What does Plasmodium cause? |
Malaria |
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Ciliates |
Alveolata |
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Ciliates defining feature |
Ability to move by cilia |
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Dinoiflagelletes |
Photosynthetic autotrophs unicellular |
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Another name for dinoflagelletes |
Peridinium |
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another name for cilliates? |
Paramecia |
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Stramenopoles |
Eukaryotes; defining feature: fine hairs on their flagella |
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Brown Algae |
Stramenopiles (protists); multicelluar |
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Another name for brown Algae |
Saragassum and Fucus |
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Diatoms |
Algae; photosyntehetic; stramneopiles |
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Diatoms defining feature |
SIlicia shell; unicellular and have flagella |
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Rhizaria |
Protists (eukaryotes); slender pseudopodia (catch food); heterophs |
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Another name for Rhizaria |
Radiolara |
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Excavata |
Protist; unique structure: kinteoplasta (contains DNA and proteins that help with mitochondrial function) |
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Another name for Excavata |
Trypanosoma |
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What does trypanosoma do? |
Sleeping sickness |
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Excavata group has.... |
modified mitochondira |
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Diplomonads |
Excavata (protists) |
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Another name for diplomonads |
Giardia (water borne human parasite) |
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Fungi defining feature |
Presence of chitin cell walls |
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Fungi: heterotrophs or autotrophs |
HETEREOTROPHS |
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Zygomycota |
Fungi; reproduce by having hyphae extend branches that make contact, coalesce, and form gametes that fuse together to form a zygoate (moldy bread) |
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Another name for Zygomycota |
Rhizopus |
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Ascomycota |
Fungai (Protists), E.g. yeast & mildew |
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Ascomycota another name |
Yeast = Saccharomyces |
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Ascomycota defining feature |
form reporductive structures (asci) in which pores are produced (usually 8) |
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Basidomycpta |
Fungi (protist) ; reproduce via basidia |
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Another name for Basidomycpta |
Club mushroom |