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Algal Diversity Flashcards

1
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Why are algae important?

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As much NPP as land, Base of marine food web, role in cycling elements, locking away carbon

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2
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Marine microalgae applications

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Industrial: biofuel, fatty acids, pigments…

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3
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Marine microalgae problems

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Toxic

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4
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places where macroalgae can grow

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Attached to rocks, coastal, free-floating

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5
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Microalgae size range

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0.5 micrometer - > 1000 micrometer

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Microalgae life styles

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Autotrophic, mixotrophic, heterotrophic

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Autotroph

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An autotroph is an organism that can convert abiotic sources of energy into energy stored in organic compounds,

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8
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Mixotrophic

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photsynthesize like plants and hunt like animals

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Heterotrophic

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use organic carbon as food source

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10
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Planktonic microalgae are

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phytoplankton

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Femtoplankton 0.02-0.2 micrometer

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Virioplankton

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Picoplankton 0.2-2 micrometer

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Bacterioplankton, phytoplankton

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Nanoplankton 2-20 micrometer

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Mycoplankton, phytoplankton

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14
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Microplankton 20-220 micrometer

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Phytoplankton

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15
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Marine cyanobacteria size

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Picoplankton, colony/chain nano/micro

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16
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Diatoms size

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Nano, micro, colony/chain meso, macro

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17
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Haptophyceae size

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Nano, colony/chain micro

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18
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Dinoflagellates size

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Nano, micro

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19
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chl containing phytoplankton

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Cyanobacteria, diatoms, mixoplankton

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20
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Grazers, protozooplankton: life style + which ones

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mixoplankton, ciliates, dinoflagellates

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21
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Diatoms, latin name

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Bacillariophyceae

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22
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Life style diatoms

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Autotrophic

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23
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Diatom cell wall

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Silicified

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24
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Productivity diatoms depends on

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Silicic acid

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25
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Centric subgroup species

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Mostly pelagic, Blooms in eutrophic systems, silicified cell walls, require silicic acid

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Pennate subgroup species

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Silicic acid cell walls, dominate benthic communities, have raphe

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Raphe

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Gliding movement by expulsion of gelatinous poly saccharides

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Fragilariineae

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Bacillariineae

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Have raphe

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Benthic microalgae function

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Top 3 cm of sediment, Colour sediment brown, stabilize sediment particles

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Auxospore formation

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Critical size, adverse environmental conditions

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marine cyanobacteria are

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Photosynthetic prokaryotes

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Prokaryote

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Single-cell organism which lacks a nucleus and other membrane bound organelles

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Cyanobacteria size

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0.3 micrometer - 1 mm, picophytoplankton

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Cyanobacteria area

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Dominant in tropical (oligotrophic) oceans

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Life style cyanobacteria

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Autotrophs

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Adaptations to nutrient limitation

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Nitrogen fixation, become very small, streamlined genomes, become closely associated with microbial loop, survive with minimal resources

38
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Prochlorococcus ecotypes

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Different ecotypes as a function of depth

39
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Richelia

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Nitrogen fixing symbionts of diatoms

40
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Diazotrophs

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Nitrogen fixers

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Flagellates

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Same ground plan

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Life styles flagellates

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Autotrophic, mixotrophic, heterotrophic

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Flagellate cell walls

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Naked, cellulose, calcium carbonate, cellulose and silica

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Haptophyceae: prymnesiophyceae examples

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Emiliania huxleyi, Phaeocystis spp

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Haptophyceae: prymnesiophyceae size

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5-10 micrometer

46
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Subgroup haptophyceae

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coccolithophores

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Coccolithophores outer housing

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Coccolithophores outer housing function

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Protection against grazing, virus and light modulation

49
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2 life-cycle stages coccolithophorids

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Holococcolith and heterococcolith

50
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Large grazers

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Small colonies

51
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Small grazers

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Large colonies

52
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Naked dinoflagellate

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Cellulose plates

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Lifestyle dinophyceae

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Autotrophic (50%), heterotrophic, mixotrophic, free living, parasitic

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Toxic dinoflagellates

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Harmful algal blooms

56
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Phagocytosis

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Engulf prey

57
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Peduncle feeding

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Attach straw and suck out prey

58
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Pallium feeding

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Digest in a sack

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Organic carbon produced by phytoplankton

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> 80% passes through foodweb and microbial loop

60
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Fate of carbon of nano and picophytoplankton

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Carbon recycled in days by bacteria in surface ocean

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Fate of carbon of larger cells

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Consumed by grazers, through fecal pellets carbon isolated in deep ocean

62
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Storage time of carbon depends on

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How deep it enters the ocean

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POC

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Particulate Organic Carbon

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POC aspects

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> 0.7 micrometer, aggregated cells, debris, bacteria, fecal pellets

65
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POC export efficiency depends on

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size, composition, particle shape

66
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DOC

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Dissolved Organic Carbon

67
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DOC aspects

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<0.7 micrometer, excreted by phytoplankton, product of grazing, viral lysis

68
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DOC

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feeds microbial loop

Principles of Biological Oceanography (10 decks)

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