Exam 2 Flashcards
What is in the SAR clade?
Stramenopiles (Diatoms, golden algae, brown algae
alveolates ( Dinoflagellates, apicomplexans, ciliates)
Rhizarians (forarms, cercozoans, radiolarians)
What are in Excavata
diplomonads
parabasalids
Euglenozoans
What are in Archaeplastida?
Red algae
chlorophytes
charophytes
land plants
what are in unikonta?
Ameobozoans ( slime moulds, tubulinids, entamoebas)
opisthokonts ( nucleariids, fungi, animals, choanflagellates)
What are protists characteristics?
-extremely diverse
-mostly unicellular
-some colonial
some multicellular
How are protists like plants?
photosynthetic,
sessile
How are protists fungus- like?
-heterotrophic (absorption)
-relatively sessile
How are protists animal like?
-heterotrophic (ingestion)
-motile
what are protists habits?
-aquatic (marine and freshwater)
-moist terrestrial
-parasitic
reproduction in eukaryotes
-one of four conditions that define “life”
-most eukaryotes reproduce sexually
-some also reproduce asexually through binary fission, budding, fragmentation
-in most cases of sexual reproduction, haploid gametes are formed via meiosis (gametic)
-return to the diploid state via syngamy (fusion)
structural and functional diversity is greater in_____ then any other group
protists
protists may be -
unicellular, multicellular, or colonial
what is mixotrophy?
the combination of photoautotrophy and heterotropy
What is heterotropy?
getting its food from other plants or animals, or relating to such living things
What is photoautotrophy?
organisms that carry out photosynthesis
Protists acquire their energy through processes of -
photoautotrophy
heterotropy
mixotrophy
Syngamy
The fusion of the male and female gametes during fertilization
Supergroup Excavata: euglenozoans
-can be photosynthetic or heterotrophic
-unique flagella used for locomotion
-have chlorophyll a and b
-no cell wall composed of cellulose
-freshwater euglena are mixtotrophic
-store energy as a carbohydrate called paramylon
What super group is euglenozoans (euglena) from?
Excavata
How do euglenids differ from green algae?
they do not have a cell wall composed of cellulose
What super group are alveolates from?
The SAR clade
What are (ciliates) stentors?
- a grey-green ciliate that possesses minute hair-like structures called cilia in rows along the oral groove
-they feed on other microscopic organisms by sweeping food into the oral groove and enveloping it in a food vacuole for absorption
alveolates: dinoflagellates
-predominantly marine, single celled organisms
-many have photosynthrtic pigments, a few are are mixotropic
-other nonpigmented species are heterotrophic or parasitic
stramenopiles: Diatoms
-unicellular photosynthetic algae
-major part of plankton in marine and freshwater habitats where they are transported by currents and turbulence
-cell wall have 2 valves made of silica
-shape is normally described as centric or pennate
-has 2 views, valve, and girdle
Stramenopiles : Brown algae (laminaria)
-common in temperate marine waters
-cell walls composed of cellulose and derive their nutrition from photosynthesis
What are supergroup Archaeplastida
key photosynthetic protists
red algae (polysiphonia)
-marine organisms
-call walls are composed of cellulose
-has chlorophyll a and phycoerythrin
-some are parasitic on other red algae and lack those pigments
-lack flagellated stages in their life cycle so they are entirely dependent on currents for fertilization and dispersal
What supergroup is red algae in?
Archaeplastida
what is Chlorophyll a
A photosynthetic pigment
What is phycoerythhrin?
A photosynthetic pigment that is adapted to take advantage of a wide specrum of light in various depths of water
What is polysiphonia?
a widespread marine alga with a branching, filammentous thallus
filaments can reach up to 30 cm in length and are composed of a single elongated central cell coated with several layers of cells
Green algae: chlorophytes and charophytes
-most ecologically and evolutionarily important algae.
-primary souce of food for aquatic animals and health food supplements for humans
-many similarities to land plants including having cellulose cell walls
-both sexual and asexual
Two types of green algae
chlorophytes and charophytes
Chlorophytes (volvox)
-unicellular, colonial, filamentous-like, and parenchymatous
-most are free living, some chlorophytes are known to form lichens in a mutalistic relationship with fungi
-inhabit freshwater environments although some species are found in marine and terrestrial environments
Volvox
-highly developed colony
-hallow ball
-ball composed of hundreds of flagellated cells that cannot reproduce in isolation
-daughter cells form inside of and are eventually relased by the large colony
Charophytes (spirogyra)
-exhibit diverse thallus (body) forms
-inhabits many different types of environments
-most closey related to land plants
-the types of cellulose, synthesizing protein in the plasma membrane, the presence of peroxisomes, and the process of forming land plants and the charophtes
Spirogyra
A fliamentous member of the charophytes with an elongated chloroplast
what supergroup is amoebozoans
unikonta
Ameobozoans: slime moulds
-physarum
-sometimes referred to as “fungus-like” protists
-important role as decomposers in terrestrail habitats and so resemble fungal organisms
-often colourful and live an almost anything moist (soil, rain gutters)
-in vegetative state they are thin, streaming masses of multinucleated protoplasm referred to as a plasmodium
-engulf bacteria and organic compounds by phagocytosis
-when food and/or water supply runs low, plasmodimum stops moving and begins to form a series of small mounds which develops into a mature sporangium that produces spores
What is a sporangium?
-a spore-containing sac that produces spores
Ameobozoans: Tubulindis
(ammoeba proteus)
-sometimes referred to as animal-like” protists
-they move by forming and extending a pseudopodium at any point on their body surfaces
-feed by phagocytosis
-cytoplasm is into two regions
-ectoplasm, nonflowing and more peripheral in position
-endoplasm, more fluid and more central in position
-plasma membrane which has adhesive properties and new pseudopodia attach to the substrate as they are formed
Protist table
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Why is green algae closest to land plants?
-has chlorophyll a and b
-caretenoids
-xanthophylls
cell walls are predominantly composed of cellulose and photosynthetic products are stored as starch
What makes land plants and algae different?
they are distinguished from the charophytes by the development of apical meristemms, spores with sporopollein enriches walls within sporangia, and possessing multicelluar gametangia (antheridia and archegonia, and possessing an embryo (sporophyte) that develops within the archegonium
all plants, as well as some green and brown algae exhibit-
life cycles with sporic meiosis
-all organisms with this life cycle exhibit alternation of generatinos, where a multicellular, hapoid form of the organism (gametophyte) alternates with a multicellular diploid form (sporophyte)
what is isomorphic alternation of generations?
if two generations appear to be identical
What is a heteromorpic alternation of generations?
If the gametophyte and sporophyte stages are phenotypically distinct
PineLife-cycle table
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Why do land plants echibit a variety of morphological and physiological modifictations of their body organizations?
-they are responses to selection pressures assosicated with the move from an aquatic to a terrestrial environment
differences between plant and water environments for plant growth
aqatic environment:
-water is available to all cells and also acts as a supportive medium
-oxygen, CO2 and minerals required by a photosynthetic organism are in solution and so most cells are capable of photosynthesis
Terrestrail habitats:
-light, oxygen and CO2 areavailable but water is often limiting, and when present is noramlly in soil
-photosynthesis and nutrient absorbation are often seperated in terrestrial photosynthetic organisms
what specialized cells have plants evolved
cells for photosynthesis, for transport of organic and inorganic nutrients, and those for reproduction
unlike animal cells, a typical plant cell possesses what?
a rigid cell wall that surrounds the protoplast
What is the protoplast?
it comprises the contents of the cell: the plasma membrane, the cytosol, the nucleus, and other membrane-bound structures such as endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria and chloroplasts
Living, metabolically active plant cells have a-
primary cell wall
-composed of cellulose and is somewhat flexible to permit growth
some plants have a secondary cell wall
-deposited inside the primary cell wall after the cell has stopped expanding
-may also contain a plant polymer called lignin
what is lignin
a plant polymer
-a chemcial that renders the cell wall infelxible
parenchyma cells
-unspecialized cells (not differentiated) that are thined walled and many sided
-make up the bulk of the plant body and perform virtually all the metabolic activities required by the plant
Collenchyma cells
cells with unevenly thickened, nonlignified primary cell walls that allow the cells to stretch
-are thickened in the corners
-They do not have a secondary cell wall and are alive at maturity
What is the funtion of the collenchyma cells structure is?
To give the plant strength
in which regions of the plant body would you expect to find coolenchyma cells?
under epidermis
peticles
leaf veins
young stems
sclerenchyma cells
-thick, ignified secondary walls
-lack a protoplast at maturity
-provide strength and support in regions of the plant that have ceased elongating
What is the major function of cells with a secondary cell wall?
To provide additional strength
when they are functionally mature, Sclerenchymma cells generally have no protoplast and therefore are not living. Why might this be?
They have thick secondary walls which do not elongate during cell growth
What are tissues?
-Groups that perform similar functions
-may be simple or complex
What are simple tissues?
only a single type of cell is found
-the name reflect on the type of plant cell of which they are composed
ex- tissue solely composed of collenchymma cells would be called collenchyma tissue
What is complex tissue?
-are composed of more than one cell type
-defined by their function and location
theres three types of complex tissues:
- xylem, pholem, and epidermal
What are xylem tissue?
-complex
-made up of a number of cell types (including parenchyma cells and a veriety of sclerenchyma cell types)
there are more sclerenchyma cells than parenchyma
the principle water conducting tissue in vascular plants
-actual transport of water and minerals throughout the plant that have lignified secondary cell walls at maturity
-parenchyma cells do not participate directly in conduction
Why are the functional transporting cells living or nonliving? why?
Nonliving, so their cell walls serve as conduits so the water can move
What is phloem tissue
-an aggregation of parenchyma and sclerenchyma cell types
-functions prinipally as a conducting tissue for photosynthate (food) in vascular plants
-conducting cells are derived from parenchyma, sclerenchyma cells provide support
-more parenchyma cells than sclerenchyma cells
how are xylem and phloem functionally different from each other?
Xylem transports and stores water and minerals.
-larger
Phloem transports sugars, proteins, and other organic molecules in plants
-smaller
Epidermal tissue
-makes up the outermost cell layer of the plant body
-covers leaves, floral parts, fruits, seeds, stems, and roots
-one cell layer thick and is sometimes covered with a waxy cuticle on aboveground parts
-stomata are pores in the plant epidermis of most leaves that are surrounded by 2 guard cells, which controls the opening and closing of the aperture
What is the purpose of the waxy covering on plants?
To prevent water loss
what is the function of guard cells
- help to regulate the rate of transpiration by opening and closing the stomata.
Would you predict that the upper and lower surfaces of a leaf would be identical in appearance? Why?
No, the upper part of the leaf is lighter then the lower half because it tends to get more sunlight
where can you find specialized parenchyma cells?
on the epidermis
What are parebchyma cells?
on root tips, these cells form root hairs and function to increase surface area for absorption of water and minerals
-on leaves and stems these cells are called trichomes and look like little hairs
Seedless nonvascular plants
-bryophytes
-they phylum hepatophyta (liverworts) and phylum bryophyta (mosses), make up the seedless nonvascular plants
-have a simple ¨body plan¨ calleda thallus
exhibit heteromorphic alternation of generations, however, in bryophytes, the gametophyte is the dominant generation
what is a thallus?
-a ¨body-plan¨
-of a bryophyte- they are pretty small and not differentiated into stems, leaves and roots, and therefre it lacks a specialized conduction system
What is phylum hepatophyta?
liverworts
Phylum hepatophyta
-liverworts
-pores leads to air chambers benealth the upper surface of the thallus
-Rhizoids
The function of pores
regulate gas exchange through their stomata
What are Rhizoids
-tiny thread-like structures thats function is to anchor the thallus to the substrate and allow the plant to absorb water and nutrients directly from the substrate
Asexual reproduction for liverworts
-gemmae cups develop on the surface of the thallus
-the cups produce samll packets of cells called gemmae that are dispersed by splashing out in the rain
Are gemmae formed by mitosis or meiosis. what is its ploidy?
-haploid (n)
-mitosis
Sexual reproduction for liverworts
the little umbrellas bear antheridia or archegonia
-fertilization results in a sporophyte that remains permanently attached and dependent on the gametophyte
Archegonia
produces eggs
Antheridia
produces sperm
Phylum Bryophyta
-mosses produce protonema as the first satge after spore germination
-spores are round tan objects that will grow by mitosis to produce protonemata
what is protonema?
thread-like structures
-buds that form will eventually develop into leafy gametophytes, which is attached to a substrate by thin filaments of cells called rhizoids
are protonemata haploid or diploid?
Haploid
What will happen when leafy gametophytes mature?
-they will produce gametangia