exam 1 (lect 1-4ish) Flashcards
monophyletic
ALL descendents and common ancestor
paraphyletic group
all from same common ancestor but excludes some of descendents
polyphyletic group
does not include last common ancestor of all members of group
What is most helpful for phylogenies?
synapomorphy
Whittaker classification of life
5 kingdoms (animals, plants, fungi, protista, monera) 1969
monera
Whittaker (5kingdoms)
prok one cell
lack nuc and other membrane bound organelle
protista
whittaker (5 kingdoms)
euk one cell or multi cell w/o specialized tissues
nucleus (double membrane surround chromosomes)
Woese
1990 3 domains (bacteria, archaea, eucarya) bact and arch prok arch sister to euc monera split to Bacteria and archaea
supergroups of euk
major lineages (monophyletic) of domain eukarya
supergroup for land plants and green algae
archaeplastida
supergroup for animals and fungi
opisthokonta
supergroups for messy oceans (phytoplankton, brown algae, golden algae)
SAR
stramenopila
alveolata
rhizaria
archaeplastida
supergroup
red algae, green algae, bryophytes, monilophytes, angiosperms
SAR
stramenopiles, alveolates, rhizaria
diatoms, dinoflagellates, phaephyta, chrysophyta, oomycetes
haptophytes
marine organisms but in archaeplastida, controversy
OR sister with SAR
photosynthetic supergroups
everything but opisthokonta (know) and amoebozoa
* not a convergent evolution b.c gained differently
algae
don’t have common ancestor but converged in algal lifestyle
polyphyletic
cyanobacteria
prok 3.7 billion yr old circular DNA in cytoplasm thylakoid membranes loose in cytoplasm 3 layers: outer memb, peptidoglycan cell wall, cell membrane
stromatolites
evidences of cyanobacteria and sediment layers
3.4 billion, not formed now
in hypersaline waters (aust)
cyanobacteria form
unicellular, colonial, filamentous
anabena
veg cell - photosynthesis
heterocysts - N fixation
Akinete - dormant
chlorophyll a
absorbs light E
all oxygenic photosynthetic org use