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Bio 121 Lab 3,4 Flashcards

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Kingdom fungi

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Phylum’s: chitridiomycota, zygomycota, ascomycota, basidiomycota

  • non-motile reproductive cells
  • multicellular, heterotrophic
  • cell walls = chitin
  • Saprobes
  • can degrade cellulose and lignin
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Hyphae

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Tubular branched filaments

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Mycelium

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Group of hyphae

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Saprotroph

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Use extracellular digestion to break down dead/decaying organic material

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Symbionts

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Live in association with other organisms (both benefit)

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Spores

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-waterproof and can remain dormant for years

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Asexual reproduction (fungi)

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Fragmentation if mycelium or asexual spores

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Sexual reproduction (fungi)

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Fusion of gametes produced in gametangia

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Septa

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Cross walls in hyphae

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Aseptate/ multinucleate

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Hyphae without septa, one cell multiple nuclei

  • chitridiomycota
  • zygomycota
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Septate/ uninucleate

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Hyphae containing septa, each cell only one nucleus

  • Ascomycota
  • basidiomycota
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RO: allomyces

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Phylum: chitridiomycota
FLAGELLATED GAMETES
-saprotroph
-Freshwater
-Branching hyphae
-rhizoids (specialized hyphae)
-alternation if generations
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Not motile sexual reproduction (3 fungi phylums)

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Zygomycota, ascomycota, basidiomycota

-hyphae grow together and fuse

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Zygomycota reproductive structure

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Zygospore

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Ascomycota reproductive structure

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Ascocarp (houses asci)

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Basidiomycota reproductive structure

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Basidiocarp (mushroom)

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Phylum chitridiomycota

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  • aquatic
  • microscopic, multinucleate, aseptate
  • motile gametes
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Rhizoids

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  • Attach (allomyces) to food structure

- secrete digestive enzymes

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Male gametangium (allomyces)

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  • Light orange

- below female gametangium

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Female gametangium (allomyces)

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-gray

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Discharge papillae

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Openings on gametangia where gametes are released

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Allomyces friends

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  • Neocallimastix

- batrachochytrium

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Phylum zygomycota

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  • terrestrial fungi
  • Saprotrophs, parasites, insect pathogens
  • no motile stage
  • multinucleate/ aseptate
  • sexual reproduction fusion gametangia
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RO: rhizopus

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Phylum: zygomycota

  • Bread mold
  • 3 Hyphae: stolons, rhizoids, sporangiophores
  • extracellular digestion
  • amylase
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Stolons

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Form horizontal branching network, spread fungus over food, produce rhizoids

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Rhizoids

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  • Short branched hyphae
  • penetrate food,
  • anchor rhizopus into food source
  • secrete amylase
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Amylase

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  • Digestive enzyme secreted by rhizoids

- converts sugar to starch

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Sporangiophores

Rhizopus asexual reproduction

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  • Upright (expose to air currents) hyphae produced by stolons during asexual reproduction
  • each bearing sporangium
  • spores within sporangium
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Rhizopus sexual reproduction

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Conjugation

  • times of stress
  • zygosporangium structure
  • forms zygospore
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Zygospore

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  • produced by sexual reproduction
  • Contains diploid nucleus
  • thick wall protects from dessication
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Rhizopus friends

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  • Phycomyces

- entomophthora

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Phylum ascomycota

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  • cup fungi, powdery mildews, yeasts, morels, truffles
  • terrestrial saprotrophs
  • plant pathogens
  • septate, uninucleate
  • asexual reproduction (spores)
  • ascus
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Ascus (asci plural)

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  • Sac like reproductive structure
  • contained in ascocarp
  • haploid ascospores
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RO: sordaria

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Phylum: ascomycota

  • saprotroph
  • loose mycelium lives on dung
  • brown ascocarp
  • neck grows to light, directs asci through gaps = ascospores release
  • shoots ascospores
  • gelatinous material allows spores to adhere to vegetstion
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Sordaria friends

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  • morels
  • claviceps
  • ophiostoma
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Phylum basidiomycota

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  • terrestrial saprotrophs
  • plant parasites
  • spectate, uninucleate
  • production basidiospores by basidia on basidiocarp
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RO: agaricus Bisporus

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Phylum: basidiomycota

  • buried in food
  • only reproductive structure visible (facilitate spore dispersal)
  • releases enzymes from hyphae breakdown and absorb nutrients
  • gills, basidia, basidiospores, stalk, cap, velum
  • propels basidiospores
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Agaricus bisporus Sexual reproduction

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  • Haploid mating strands hyphae fuse

- basidiocarp (mushroom) grows above soil

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Gills

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  • Line underside of cap

- lined with basidia

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Basidia

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  • site of meiosis

- haploid nuclei -> basidiospores

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Velum

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Tissue on immature mushroom joining cap to stalk to cover and protect basidia

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Agaricus bisporus friends

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  • Oyster mushrooms
  • shiitake mushrooms
  • bracket fungi
  • puffballs
43
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Green algae sugar storage

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Stored as starch in chloroplasts

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Oogamy

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Sexual reproduction, large non motile egg, small motile sperm (plantae)

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Kingdom plantae

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  • Cell walls cellulose
    1. Alternation generations
    2. Gametangia and sporangia w multicellular walls (prevent dessication)
    3. Embryos nourished protected by gametophyte
  • nonvascular bryophytes
  • vascular lycopodiophyta and pteridophyta
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Non vascular plants

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  • no vascular tissue
  • Small
  • restricted to moist habitat
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Vascular plants

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  • vascular tissue: xylem and phloem
  • larger
  • terrestrial
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Phylum bryophyta

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  • nonvascular “mosses”
  • small
  • moist habitats
  • water dependent for fertilization
  • sensitive to pollution
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RO: polytrichum

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Phylum: bryophyta
-boreal forests acidic soil 
-gametophyte (haploid) DOMINANT
-sporophyte (diploid)
-light spores: wind dispersal
-elongate stalk: expose to air 
-rhizoids absorption and anchorage
-antheridia and archegonia @ top of gametophyte
-external fertilization 
-sexual oogamy
Asexual fragmentation
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Gametophyte (bryophyta)

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  • Small, leafy, photosynthetic, green, -long lived

- produces gametes

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Sporophyte (bryophyta)

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  • non photosynthetic
  • dependent on gametophyte for nourishment
  • short lived
  • produces spores
  • single sporangium = capsule
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Sporangium/capsule

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  • Capsule

- meiosis produce haploid spores

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Calyptra

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Hairy cap covering immature sporangium

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Operculum

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Lid at apex of sporangium protecting entrance rod spore producing region

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Antheridia

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  • oval

- separated by sterile hairs (retain water)

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Archegonia

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  • long flask shaped
  • surrounded by sterile hairs
  • long narrow neck swollen base
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polytrichum friends

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  • Mnium
  • sphagnum
  • marchantia
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Vascular plants (tracheophytes)

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  • Seed and seedless
  • vascular tissue
  • xylem and phloem
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Transition to land 5 obstacles

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  1. Prevent dessication
  2. Absorb water
  3. Transport water/nutrients
  4. Support against gravity
  5. Disperse on dry land
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How do Vascular plants prevent dessication

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Cuticle- waxy covering secreted by epidermis to prevent water loss

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Stomata

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Pores for gas exchange

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How do vascular plants absorb water/nutrients

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  • Rhizoids: hair like extensions absorb water
  • rhizome: horizontal stem
  • true roots for absorption and anchorage
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How to vascular plants transport water/nutrients

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-conducting tissue: xylem and phloem

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Xylem

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Tissue that transports water and minerals

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Phloem

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Tissue that transports sugars

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How do vascular plants support themselves

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  • Cell walls of cellulose

- secondary walls of lignin

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How do vascular plants disperse/ reproduce

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  • spores in sporangia w multicellular walls

- spores covered in sporopollenin for protection

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Tracheids

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  • thick walled water-conducting cells

- part of xylem tissue

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Sieve elements

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  • specialized food conducting cells

- part of phloem tissue

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Phylum lycopodiophyta

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  • club mosses
  • vascular plants
  • grow as epiphytes (on other plants)
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RO: lycopodium

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Phylum: lycopodiophyta

  • undergrowth
  • gametophyte dominant
  • aerial stem
  • cone = strobilus (@apex)
  • leaves = microphylls
  • horizontal stem = rhizome
  • larger roots
  • each leaf (sporophyll) contains sporangium
  • bisexual gametophyte
  • homosporus
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Strobilus

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Cone at top of lycopodium

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Microphylls

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Leaves of lycopodium

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Rhizome

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  • Horizontal stem of lycopodium
  • functions in asexual reproduction
  • allows plant to spread horizontally
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Homosporous

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One size of spore (lycopodium)

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Lycopodium friends

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Selaginella

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Phylum pteridophyta

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  • ferns, horsetails, whisk ferns
  • seedless vascular
  • sporophyte dominant
  • forest floors, epiphytes, crevices, boulders
  • megaphyll leaves
  • vascular tissue branched veins
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RO: polypodium

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Phylum: pteridophyta 
Rabbits foot fern 
-tropical forests 
-undergrowth boreal forests 
-horizontal rhizomes (asexual reproduction)
-alternation generations
-sporophyte dominant 
-tiny green photosynthetic gametophytes (bisexual heart shaped)
-sori (brown spots)
-catapults spores (sporangium opens)
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Sori (singular sorus)

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  • Brown spots on underside of megaphylls
  • each a cluster of sporangia
  • site of meiosis = haploid spores
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Polypodium friends

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  • salvinia
  • psilotum
  • equisetum

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