CH28 Flashcards

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Define

Protists

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Diverse group of eukaryotes than span all 4 supergroups: amoebozoa, excavata, plantae, opisthokonta.

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Define

Primary endosymbiosis

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Formation of a chloroplast (plastid) from an endosymbiotic cyanobacterium. Led to the creation of Archaeplastida (land plants, algae)

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Define

Secondary endosymbiosis

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Plastic acquisition eevents that followed primary endosymbiosis

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Describe

Nucleomorphs

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Group of organisms that possess vestigial nuclei: chlorarachnophytes and cryptomonads. They possess double membranes with nuclear pores and densely packed genes

They are evidence for secondary endosymbiosis.

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Describe

Excavata

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Group of protists, possess excavated feeding groves on one side of cell body. Include diplomonads, parabasalids and euglenozoans

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Describe

Diplomonads

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Possess no plastids and modified mitochondria called mitosomes (no ETC, anaerobic pathways for energy).
Two nuclei and multiple flagella

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Describe

Parabasalids

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Possess reduced mitochondria called hydrogenosomes.
They perform anaerobic energy production, which releases H

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Describe

Euglenozoans

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Defined by the presence of a rod containing a spiral or a crystalline structure inside the flagella. Subdivided into kinetoplastids and euglenids

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Describe

Kinetoplastids

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Possess large mitochondrion with thousands of DNA organized in interlocking circles called kinetoplasts

Ex: trypanosomes (pathogens)

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Describe

Euglenids

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Possess pocket at one end of cell from which one or two flagella emerge. They are either mixotrophs or prey engulfers

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What are the members of the SAR clade?

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Stramenophiles, alveolates and rhizarians

Stramenophiles and alveolates originated billions of years ago

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Describe

Stramenophiles

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Possess flagellum with fine, hairlike projections and a second, smooth flagellum. Subdivided into diatoms, golden algae and brown algae

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Describe

Diatoms

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Unicellular algae with a glass-like wall that can withstand pressure

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Describe

Golden Algae

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  • Mixotrophic or photosynthetic
  • Color given by colored carotenoids
  • Can form protective cysts that can survive for decades
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Describe

Brown Algae

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  • Most complex stramenophiles, they are commonly called seaweeds
  • Possess root holdfalst, stemline stipe, leaflike blades near water surface
  • Analogous to other plants, algaes
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Describe

Alveolates

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Possess membrane-bound sacs right (alveoli) under membrane.
Dinoflagellates, apicomplexans and ciliates belong to this group

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Describe

Dinoflagellates

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Reinforced by cellulose plates, its two flagella are in groves to make the dinoflagellate spin.
A big rise in their number is called a bloom, which causes a phenomenon called “red tide”

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Describe

Apicomplexans

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They are parasites in their sporozoite stage. Contains complex specialized for penetration

19
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Describe

Ciliates

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  • Predators who use cilia to move and feed
  • 2 nuclei, micro and macro in multiple units
  • Micro: exchange of genetic information, led to
  • Macro: transcription
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Describe

Rhizarians

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  • Many of them are amoebas, move and feed with pseudopodia, extensions that can budge from anywhere on cell surface
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Describe

Forams

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Rhizarians, possess porous shells called tests, from which the pseudopodia extend

22
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Describe

Cercozoans

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Rhizarians; feed with threadlike pseudopodia. Most are heterotrophs, many are parasites

23
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Which organisms are in Archaeplastida?

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Red and green algae as well as land plants.
Red algae’s chlorophyll is masked by phycoerythrin, while green algae are chlorophytes or charophytes

24
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Describe

Unikonts

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  • They are close to animals, fungi and protists
  • Divided into two clades: amoebozoans and opisthokonts
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Describe

Amoebozoans

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  • Lobe/tube shaped pseudopodia
  • Counts amongst its ranks mycetozoans (analogous ressemblance to fungi), tubulinids (near hydrated environments) and entamoebas (parasites)
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Describe

Opisthokonts

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Animals, fungi and protists