Bio 121 Lab Exam 1 Flashcards
Unicellular Green Algae
Desmids Micrasterias Chlamydomonas Volvox Spirogyra Oedogonium
Chlamydomonas
Unicellular green algae
Move with flagella
Chlamydomonas Sexual Lifecycle
Zoospores (haploid cells) have different mating strains (+ or -): isogametes
Zoospore nuclei fuse (syngamy): sexual reproduction
Zygote is resistant to environmental stressors
Meiosis produces more zoospores
Volvox
Colonial green algae
Individual cells connected to each other by cytoplasmic strands
Spirogyra
Filamentous green algae
Grow in end-to-end chains
Photosynthetic: ribbon-like chloroplasts
Spirogyra Sexual Lifecycle
Haploid vegetative cells have opposite mating strains
Mating strains connect via conjugation tube
Male gamete fuses with female gamete
Resistant zygote forms
Asexual reproduction: fragmentation
Oedogonium
Filamentous green algae
Have distinctive male and female parts
Oedogonium Sexual Lifecycle
Antheridium (male part) releases antherozoids
Antherozoids travel to Oogonium (female part)-fuse with egg
Oospore (diploid) undergoes meiosis to form zoospore (haploid)
Zoospore forms into a filament
Mitosis occurs by fragmentation
Brown Algae
Phaeophyta
Red Algae
Rhodophyta
Hepatophyta
Bryophyte member
Liverworts (Marchantia)
Nonvascular
Liverwort Sexual Lifecycle
Sperm is released from antheridium- travels to archegonium
Sporophyte (diploid) develops in archegonium
Sporophyte produces thallus (long thick sheet- haploid)
Gemma cups on thallus disperse spores (asexual reproduction)
Pterophyta
Seedless vascular Ferns Equisetum (common fern) Asplenium Matteuccia (observed in lab)
Fern Sexual Lifecycle
Sporangium produce spores (haploid)
Spores develop into gametophytes
Underside of gametophyte contains archegonium and antheridium
Sperm is released from antheridium and travels to archegonium
Fertilization of egg produces zygote
Zygote develops into sporophyte (leaf)
Sporangium are located on underside of leaf
Prothallium
Fern gametophyte
Bryophyta
Non-vascular
True moss
Sphagnum
Lycophyta
Seedless vascular
Lycopodium (club moss)
Selaginella (resurrection plant)
Ginkgophyta
Vascular seeded
Ginkgo
Cycadophyta
Vascular seeded
Zamia
Gnetophyta
Vascular seeded
Welwitchia
Coniferophyta
Vascular seeded
Pinus
Nematodes
Ascaris Lumbricoides
Phylum Nematoda
Chiton
Phylum Mollusca
Class Polyplacophora
Jellyfish
Physalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Scyphozoa
Spider (Black Widow)
Latrodectus mactans
Phyla Arthropoda
Subphyla Cheliceriformes
Polychaetae (Sand worm)
Nereis virens
Phylum Annelida
Sponge
Neoesperiopsis (sponge with finger-like projections; orange)
Callyspongia (similar to above, but pink and larger pores)
Phylum Porifera
Snail
Achantia
Phylum Molusca
Class Gastropoda