bio test: oct 11 Flashcards

1
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geologic record

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2.1 BYA (prokaryotes- stromatolites were 3.8)

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Eukaryotes are what type of group?

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Monophyletic. (common ancestor gave rise to all)

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Eukaryote last common ancestor had:

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  • cells w nuclei, nuclear envelope with pores
  • mitochondria
  • cytoskeleton (of microtubules/microfilaments)
  • flagella or cilia - for motility
  • chromosomes organized by histones
  • undergo mitosis
  • capable of sexual reproduction
  • cell walls - lost in many groups
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Aerobic respiration/aerobic metabolism

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Seen in all lineages of eukaryotes (because of mitochondria). Aerobic metabolism produces lots of ATP (ATP is the basis of all energy).

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Endosymbiosis theory

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Eukaryotes result from one cell engulfing another, one lived in the other, and they co-evolved.
- unclear whether this was before or after nucleus

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Our energy-harvesting is very similar to

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bacteria

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7
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Our nuclear genes and molecular machinery is very similar to

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archaea

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8
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mitochondria are present only in

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eukaryotes (1-1000+ per cell)

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9
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mitochondria are shaped like

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proteobacteria with two membranes

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10
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to look at organisms relationships we look at what type of DNA?

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mitochondrial

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just looking at differences between individuals

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nuclear DNA

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12
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have their own genome!

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  • circular chromosome
  • special ribosomes (similar to prokaryotes)
  • some genes in the nucleus are transferred from the mitochondria (mimicking prokaryote -> nucleus)
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13
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Mitochondria divide…

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Independently - like binary fission

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14
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There are anaerobic eukaryotes?

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True. Assumed to be an evolutionary reversal (ex. anaerobic eukaryote lost ability of aerobic respiration)

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plastids are like mitochondria BUT…

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They are photosynthetic (bc of their chloroplasts), (similar bc circular chromosomes)

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Plastids origin

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symbiotic origin
- derived from cyanobacteria (happened twice, primary endosymbiosis)

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Primary vs Secondary endosymbiosis

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first: archaeplastida (most plants today)
second: only a few species
+ Major groups of algae (major protozoans), they have secondary plastids surrounded by 3 membranes

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18
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protists are a eukaryote?

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true

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19
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what type of group is protists

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Paraphyletic.
- over 100 000 species
- very diverse in structure and function
- defined as a eukaryote that is not an animal, plant or fungi

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Cell structure of protists

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  • complex
  • micrometres to more than metres
  • animal OR plant like
  • can have pellicles: interlocking protein strips
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Protist metabolism

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Highly varied:
- aerobic or anaerobic
- photoautotrophs
- heterotrophs

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Examples of heterotroph protists

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phagocytosis:engulfing cells
Saprobes: eat dead things
Mixotrophs: eat a bit of everything

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Protist Motility

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  • flagella, cilia, or pseudopodia
  • some can not move at all
  • some move lots
    Taxis: refers to movement
  • have amoeboid movement*
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Lifecycles of Protist

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  • can undergo asexual reproduction- binary fission
  • sexual reproduction- meiosis and fertilization
  • many switch from sexual to asexual
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25
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Habitats of protists

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highly varied - most have some water connection

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26
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amoeba movement

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pseudopods (blob like)

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27
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archaeplastids

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  • red and green plants*
  • descendants are heterotrophic protists and cyanobacterium
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alternation of generations

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there are two different generations within the lifecycle - sporophyte (diploid stage) and gametophyte (haploid stage)

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29
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glaucophytes

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chloroplasts retain cell wall of cyanobacteria

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30
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Green Algae

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most abundant! Subgroups:
1) charophytes- closest living relatives to land plants
2) Chlorophytes- from fresh water and damp soil ex. volvox

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31
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Amoebazoa

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  • contain the gymnomoebae
  • slime molds!
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slime molds

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similar to fungi, types:
plasmodial: large multinucleate cells- netlike feeding structure, ex “dog vomit”
cellular: interdependent cells in good conditions, aggregate in poor conditions

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33
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Opisthokonto

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  • single posterior flagellum
  • chanoflagellates*
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34
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chloroplasts are derived from?

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secondary endosymbiosis
- this is seen in Rhizeria group

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Rhizerians

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  • “tests” / shells are crucial to the carbon cycle
    1) foraminiferans- heterotrophic, porous tests
    2) radiolarians- glassy silica shell
    3) cercozoa- naked and shelled (or not!)
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36
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Chromalveolata

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engulfed photosynthetic red algae

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37
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Within Chromalveolata: Alveolata

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1) Dinoflagellates: photosynthetic, heterotrophic, mixotrophic, bioluminescent, red tides (eruption of dinoflagellates)
2) Apicomplexans: parasitic- malaria (plasmodium!)
3) Ciliates: paramecium

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38
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Within Chromalveolata: Straminopiles

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1) diatoms: unicellular photosynthetic- SiO2
2) Brown Algae: marine multicellular- giant kelp
3) oomycetes- “egg type fungus”, parasitic or saprobes

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39
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Excavata

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  • many cause disease, can be photosynthetic/heterotrophs
  • tend to be asymmetrical, feeding groove down middle
40
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Groups of Excavata

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1) Diplomonads: anaerobic, 2 haploid nuclei- giardia
2) Parabasalids: STD, others inhabit rumen or termite gut
3) Euglenozoans: parasites, heterotrophs, autotrophs, mixotrophs ex: euglena- mixotroph (green and can photosynthesize, feeds on lots)

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Flagel

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Can kill flagellates (Giardia) causing diarrhea in hikers

42
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Trypanosoma

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causes African sleeping syndrome, infectious and multiplies: goes into humans through fly bite.

43
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Protists as Producers

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1) Phyto and zooplankton (25% photosynthesis, base of marine food chain)
2) Symbionts- Corals (Anthozoans and dinoflagellates)

44
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Pathogenic Protists

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1) Human and animal parasites (Plasmodium-malaria, trypanosome-sleeping sickness and Chagas disease, Giardia spp, trichomonas, lieshmania)
2) Plant parasites (oomycetes- grapes and potatoes)

45
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mycology

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the study of fungi

46
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fungal cells- eukaryote

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  • dna bound nucleus
  • fungal cell walls (pigments- uv radiation, toxic & thick bc chitin an glucose)
  • plasma membrane like animals (but cholesterol replaced w ergosterol)
47
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Fungal Growth: Vegetative Body

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Can be Unicellular or Multicellular
1) Unicellular = yeasts, Candida sp.
2) Multicellular=hyphae

48
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Fungal growth: cycle includes…

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Both vegetative and reproductive stages
1) vegetative = mycelium (tangle of hyphae), can grow very large on many media
2) reproductive= “mushroom”

49
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Fungal Growth: Hyphae

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divided into singular cells with septa

50
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Fungal Nutrition: Obligate aerobes

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require O2

51
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Fungal Nutrition: obligate anaerobes

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absence of O2 (O2 is toxic for them)

52
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Fungal Nutrition: Facultative anaerobes

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Best in O2 but can survive without

53
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Fungal Nutrition: Heterotrophs, Saprobes, Parasites

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  • acquire energy from dead or decaying matter
  • external digestion
  • many are parasitic
  • some predators (nematophagous fungi)
54
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Fungal Nutrition: digestion

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external digestion
- the reverse of our ingestion and digestion
- digest w enzymes then absorb
- can digest cellulose and linen*
- potential bioremediations

55
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Predator Fungal EX: Haustoria

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specialized hyphae- inject enzymes

56
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Fungal reproduction

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Sexual and asexual
- perfect fungi - both
- imperfect fungi - asexually - mitosis

57
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Asexual Fungal Reproduction

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  • fragmentation, budding, spores (asexually through mitosis)
  • sporangium- reproductive sac
  • conidiophores - uni/multicellular - released from hypha
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Sexual Fungal Reproduction

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  • often response to adverse environmental conditions
  • two mating types produced
    1: homothallic- same mycelium,
    2: heterothallic- requires 2 different (but compatible) mycelium
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3 stages of sexual reproduction

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1) Plasmogamy: (cytoplasm unite)- dikaryotic cell (2 haploid nuclei)
2) Karyogamy: (nuclei unite) - diploid zygote nucleus
3) Meiosis: spores released into the environment

60
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5 phyla of fungi

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1- chytridiomycota
2- zygomycota
3- ascomycota
4- basidiomycota
5- glomeromycota

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Chytridiomycota

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only class= Chytridiomycetes
- simplest and most primitive (500 MYA)
- most unicellular, some multicellular
- only fungi with flagella
- most aquatic
- parasitic species- plants, insects, amphibians

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Zygomycota: Conjugated Fungi

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  • most are saprobes (black bread mold)
  • used in industry (steroid hormones)
  • usually asexually reproduce- sporangia
  • sexual reproduction- conjugation (need two opposing mating strands), zygospores (diploid) - meiosis - spores
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Ascomycota - Sac Fungi

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Ascus= saclike structure contains haploid ascospores
Economic importance- food, yeasts, parasites
Reproduction: Asexual- conidiophores produce conidiophores
Sexual- 1) male strain- antheridium
2) female strain- ascogonium
3) asci fill ascocarp (fruiting body)

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Basiodimycota - Club Fungi

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Basidia: club-like fruiting bodies
- common mushrooms, shelf fungi, smuts and rusts
- mostly edible mushrooms, also many deadly ones

65
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Reproduction in Basidiomycota

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alternation of generations
- haploid and eukaryotic - sexual spores more common
- male and female strains fuse
- diploid zygote- meiosis
- basidiospores in basidiocarp (mushroom)

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Imperfect fungi

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  • asexually reproducing Ascomycota and Basidiomycota
  • form visible “fuzzy” mycelia = mold
  • commercial importance (ripening cheese “blue cheese”, penicillium)
  • Aflatoxins- toxic compounds
67
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Glomeromycota

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*Arbuscular mycorrhizae- plant roots
- cannot survive without plant roots

68
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ecological roles: Fungi

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  • universal decomposers (major roles in cycling N2 and P)
  • live in most habitats
  • more common forest floor (dark and moist)
  • need moisture to thrive and move nutrients
69
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Symbiosis and Mutualism in Fungi

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Symbiosis- living together
Mutualism- both benefit
- 90% vascular plants

70
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lifecycle

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  • the majority is diploid, going from diploid to haploid = meiosis, mitosis is just one division (haploid to haploid or diploid to diploid, not one to another)
71
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how do fungi feed

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extracellular digestion

72
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mycorrhizal fungi

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(myco=fungus, rhizo = root)
- fungi mutualism with plant roots, give plants nitrogen and phosphorous, plant gives fungi sugar
Ectomychorrizal: envelope roots in sheath (zygomycota, accomycota, basidiomycota)
Endomychorrizal (arbuscular) fungi: inside the root of Glomeromycota

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Lichens: mutualism

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  • ascomycota or basidiomycota
  • alga or cyanobacteria
    *Alga and Fungi: alga provides C, fungi provides protection and attachment to substrate
    Reproduction- spreading via Soredie (mycelia sourrounded algal cells
  • environmental indicators!
74
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Fungal/Animal mutualism: insect/fungal

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  • scale insects and Basidiomycota
  • fungi farming ants
75
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Fungal/Animal mutualism: Fungivores

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  • disperse fungal spores in feces
  • black truffles
76
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Review relationship terms!

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Mutualism: both benefit
Commensalism: one benefits, one unaffected
Parasitism: one benefits, one harmed

77
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Fungal Plant Parasites and Pathogens: Direct harm in…

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Rotting crops and food-producing plants.
- decay or stored crops
- smuts and rusts

78
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Fungal Plant Parasites and Pathogens: Secondary effects of fungal infection

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  • ergot
  • aflatoxin
79
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Mycosis

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disease resulting from fungus

80
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Mycotoxins

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poisoning of humans and animals by food contaminated by fungal toxins

81
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fungal infections difficult to treat

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ones in eukaryotes, because antibiotics only work on prokaryotes

82
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Other animal and human parasites

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  • mould sensitivity/toxic mould
  • chytrid fungi and amphibians
  • human infections- skin or respiratory
83
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beneficial use of fungi

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1) food
2) medicine
3) biological control

84
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mycelium of fungi

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haploid
- they come together to form diploid

85
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fungal stage where cells unite but nuclei are not yet fused

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plasmogamy

86
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most ancestral fungal group that has swimming gametes

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chytridiomycota
- ex. white fungus on frogs

87
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gills on portabello mushroom

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basidiomycota

88
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black bread mold

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zygomycota

89
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fungi are universal — ecologically

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decomposers

90
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mycelium touch

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the ground
- adjust nutrients by extracellular digestion before pulling in

91
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air we breathe is what % Nitrogen

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78%

92
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T/F: Nitrogen in the air can be used by most organisms

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False

93
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Some of earliest eukaryotes 3.8 BYA

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Stromatolites

94
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energy producing organelle only in eukaryotes

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mitochondria

95
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plant chloroplasts are similar to…

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our mitochondria in evolutionary origins
- endosymbiosis

96
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protists are monophyletic or paraphyletic

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paraphyletic

97
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slime molds are an example of what group

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amoebozoa