Chapter 28 - The Origin Of Eukaryotes Flashcards
Characteristics of phylum Gymnamoeba?
All unicellular, no flagella, pseudopodia, and no sexual reproduction
What are Entamoebas?
Parasites of vertebrates and some invertebrates
Common name for Phylum Mycetoxzoans?
Plasmodial slime molds.
Characteristics of Phylum Mycetozoans?
Cellular slime molds, phagocytosis, decomposers, flagellated cells, and plasmodial slime molds, both coenocytic and diploid.
What is the included in the supergroup Unikonts?
Animals, fungi, and some protists.
What is the common name for phylum chlorophyta?
Green algae
Characteristics of Phylum Chlorophyta?
Cellulose cell walls, mostly in freshwater, and can be unicellular, colonies, or multicellular.
Characteristics of phylum Charophyta?
Multicellular sex organs
What is the common name for phylum Rhodophyta?
Red algae.
Characteristics of Phylum Rhodophyta?
Common in warm waters, chlorophyll a and d, includes phycobilins like phycocynin and phycoerythrin, cell walls are made of cellulose and carrageenan, they have no flagellated cells.
What does the supergroup Archaeplastids contain?
Red algae, green algae, and land plants.
Characteristics of Radiozoans?
Shell made of silica and mostly marine planktons.
Characteristics of Formanifera?
Has a porous, multichambered cell.
Common name for Phylum Oomycota?
Water molds.
Characteristics of Phylum Oomycota?
Coenocytic hyphae, biflagellated cells, large and non-motil egg, and cellulose cell walls.
Common name for Phylum Phaeophyta?
Brown algae.
Characteristics of Phylum phaeophyta?
Largest, most complex.
Mostly marine, most common in temperate to cold waters.
Contains chlorophyll a and c and fucoxanthin.
Common name for phylum bacilliariophyta?
Diatoms.
Characteristics of phylum Bacilliariophyta?
Cell walls made of silica.
Common name for Phylum Cillophora?
Ciliates.
Characteristics of Phylum Cillophora?
Has cilia.
Most complex cellular structure that contains a Micronucleus, Macronucleus, feeding mechanisms, and a contractile vacuole.
Characteristics of phylum aipcomplexa?
All parasitic on animals.
Has a modified plastid called apicoplast that is not photosynthetic.
Includes sporozoites.
Has complex life cycles.
Characteristics of Phylum Dinoflagellata?
Phytoplankton.
Cellulose plates.
Mutualistic with coral.
Characteristics of Kinetoplastids?
Single large mitochondrion.
Contains unique region of granular DNA called the kinetoplastid.
Characteristics of Euglenoids?
No cell wall, just pellicle.
Flagella emerge from pocket.
Heterotrophic and autotrophic.
Characteristics of Euglenozoa?
Mitochondria has discoid cristae.
Main distinguishing feature is a crystal rod in flagella with unknown function.
Characteristics of Parabasala?
Has granular Parabasal body near nucleus with unknown function.
Have hydrogenosomes which produce ATP anaerobically as well as H and carbon dioxide.
Characteristics of Diplomonads?
Contains nonfunctional mitochondria called mitosomes.
Has two nuclei.
