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all organisms are:
1. composed of 1 or more cells
2. carry out metabolism
3. transfer energy with ATP
4. encode hereditarty information in DNA
Systematics
the study of evolutionary relationships
Phylogeny
a grapical represetation depicting patterns of a relationship
Key to interpreting a phylogeny
1. species share a common ancestor
2. physical characteristics do not necessarily predict evolutionary relationships
3. cladograms depict phylogeny based on derived evelutionary relationships.
Polarize characteristics
Put things in groups
3 systematic groups
1. Monophyletic
2. Paraphyletic
3. polyphyletic
Classification
How we place specied and higher groups into the taxonomic hierarchy
Eath formed how long ago?
4.5 billion yrs ago
When did the first organisms emerge?
2.5 and 3.8 BYA
Evolution of cells?
1. RNA may have been the first genetic material
2. amino acids po;ymerized into proteins
3. metabolic pathways emerges
4. lipid bubbles became living cells with cell membranes
5. several innovations contributed to diversity of life
Carolus Linnaeus instituted what?
Binomial names.
ex. homo sapien
Taxonomy
the sceince of classifiying things
Taxon
Classification level
The Linnaean Hierarchy
1. Domain
2. Kingdom
3. Phylum
4. Class
5. Order
6. Family
7. Genus
8. Species
3 Domain Phylogeny
1. Domain Archaea
2. Domain Bateria
3. Domain Eukarya
6 Kindom System
1. Bacteria
2. Archaea
3. Protista
4. Fungi
5. Plantae
6. Animalia
Key characteristics of Eukaryotics
1. Compartmentalization
2. Multicellularity
3. Sexual Reproduction
Viridiplantae is composed of
1. Chlorophyta - green algae
2. Strepophyta - land plants
Viruses
1. Are not organisms
2. Litterly parasetic- DNA and RNA wrapped in protien
3. Can only reproduce within living cells
4. vary greatly in apprearance
The first cells
1. microfossils - oldest are 3.5 billion years old
2. stromatolites - oldest are 2.7 bya
3. biomarkers
Prokaryotes
1 Oldest and simplest form of life
2. less then 10% of species are known
Prokaryotics split into 2 lines
1. Bateria- also call eubateria
2. archaea - archaebateria
Procaryotic features
1. not multicellular
2. small
3. circular DNA
4. binary fussion - asexual
5. very little internal compartmentalization
6. move like a propeller
Metabolic diversity
1. photosynthetic
2. chemolithotropic
Difference between bacteria and archaea
Bacteria are unbranched and connected to glycerol by ester linkages
Archaea are branched and connect to glycerol by ether linkage
archaea lack peptidoglycan
archeae simular to eucarotics
archaea transcription and translation more simular to eukaryotics
Procaryotic Classification
1. photosynthetic or nonphotosythetic
2. motile or nonmotile
3. unicellular or colony forming or filamentous
4. spore formation by division or transverse binary fission
Molecular classification
1. amino acid sequences of key proteins
2. percent guanine-cytisine content
3. nucleic acid hybridization
4. ribosomal RNA sequencing
5. whole-genome sequencing
3 prokaryotic shapes
1. bacillus- bacilli -straight and rod shaped
2. coccus-cocci- spherical shaped
3. spirillum-spirilla-long and helical shaped
Prokaryotic Cell surface
1. maintains shape and protects the cell from swelling and rupturing
2. usually consists of peptidoglycan
3. rigid, paracrystaline surface
4. gelatinous layer, protects from immune system
5. hairlike structures
6. long helical structure, flagelin - locomotion
Prokaryotic internal structure
1. Nucleoid region
2. Ribosomes
3. Internal membranes
4. Endospores
2 processes create bacterial variations
1. mutation
2. genetic recombination
What is genetic recombination in prokaryotics
1. conjugation - cell to cell contact
2. transduction - viruses
3. transformation - from the enviornment
Prokayotic metabolism
1. carbon
a. autothrophs - from inorganic CO2
b. heterpthrophs - from organic molecules
2. energy
a. chemolithotrophs - from inorganic chemicals
b. phototrophs - from sunlight
Benefits fo prokaryotics
1. chemical cycling
2. decomposition
3. nitrogen fixation
4. antibiotics
5. creation of foods
6. nonpoluting insect control
Negatives of prokaryotics
1. Food spoilage
2. diseases
3. sexually transmitted diseases
1st eucaryotic group
Protists
Theroy of endosymbiosis
1. mithacondria originated as symbiotic, aerobic bacteria
2. chloroplasts originated as cyanobacteria
Classifying protists
1. they are not plants, animals or fungi
2. most diverse
3. little consensus about classification
Protists general biology
1. No cell wall
2. some able to form cysts
3.locomotor organelles
4. nutrition
5. reproduction
6. habitat
Reroduction of protists
1. typically asexual
2. binary fission - equal halves
3. budding- progeny cell smaller
4. schizogony - multiple fission
Where do protists live
1. require some water
2. freshwater
3. marine
4. puddles
5. damp soil
3 catagorys of protists
1. Plant like - photosynthetic
2. animal like - ingest food
3. fungus like - absorb food
benefits fo protista
1. produce oxygen
2. major role in the food chain
3. food source- sushi
4. carageenan - a thickener
5. source of iodine
6. fine abrasive
7. decomposer
Negatives of protista
1. many diseases
a. african sleeping sickness
b. malaria
c. hiker's diarrhea
d. STD's
2. red tides
Kingdom Viridiplante consists of
1. land plants
2. green algae
Green algae is split into 2 clades
1. chlorophytes - never made it to lane
2. charophytes - made it to land
First land plants
Bryophytes - mosses and liverworts
Properties of bryophytes
1. non-vascular
2. swimming sperm
3. lifecycle dominated by haploid gametophyte stage
4. spores for reproduction
First vascular plants
1. lycophyta - club mosses
2. pterphytes - ferns
Properites of Lyophyta
1. earliest vascular plants
2. most abundant in tropics and moist temperature
Properties of Pterophytes
1. vascular
2. swimming sperm
3. life cycle dominated by sporophyte stage
4. spores for reproduction
Homospory
male and female on the same plant
First seed plant
1. gymnospem
Gymnosperm properties
1. vascular
2. heterospory
3. seeds
4. pollen
5.life cycle dominated by sporophyte stage
6. reproduction of gametophyte protects delicate egg and embryo in protective sporophyte
Types of gymnosperm
1. ginko
2. gnetophytes
3. cycads
4. conifers
First flowering plant
Angiospems
Angiosperm properties
1. vascular
2. heterospory
3. flower
4. seed with fruit
5. pollen
6. life cycle dominated by sporophyte stage
gametocytes
pollen grains
Fertilization of angiosperms
1. involves 2 sperm-double fertilization
2. one spern fertilizes egg - diploid zygote
3. other sperm fuses with other nuclei forming a triploid cell
4. becomes the endosperm - nutritive material for developing embryo
2 classes of angiosperms
1. dicots
2. monocots
Fungi
1.decomposers
2. always multicelluar
3. heterotrophs - absorbs nutrients
4. filamentous bodies
5. unusal reproduction
6. cell walls made of chitin
7. nuclear mitosis
mycelium
mass of connected hyphae
Fungi reproductiuon
capable of both sexual and asexual
how fungi obtain nutrients
1. external digestion - decompossers
2. break down cellulose and lignin
3. some are carnivorous
Grouping of fungi
1. chytridiomycota
2. zygomycota
3. glomerulomycota
4. basidiomycota
5. ascomycota
6. deutermycetes
Ecology of fungi
1. decomposers
2. only organism capable of breaking down cellulose and lignin
fungi symbolic relationships
1. obligate symbiosis - essential for fungi survival
2. facultative symbiosis - nonessential
2 types of Mycorrhizae
1. arbuscular mycorrhizae
2. ectomycorrhizae