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3 origin hypothesi

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Panspermia - space

Reducing earth - prebiotic soup

Deep sea vents - iron sulfur world

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8 fundamental properties of life?

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Composed of membrane bound cells

Sensitivity: respond to stimuli

Growth: metabolism

Development: gene directed change

Reproduction: vertical gene transfer

Regulation: mechanism for internals

Homeostasis: equilibrium

Heredity: genetic information

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Endosymbiosis?

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The theory that eukaryotic cells evolved by engulfing other things like purple non sulphur bacteria and Cyanobacteria to make mitochondria and chloroplasts.

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Viruses characteristics and structures?

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Infected cell or infectious particle

Nonliving, acellular, obligate intracellular parasite.

Escaped gene hypothesis, prior to divergence theory

Lytic and lysogenic cycles

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Lytic cycle?

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  1. Attachment
  2. Penetration
  3. Replication
  4. Assembly
  5. Release (lysis)
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Lysogenic cycle

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  1. Attachment
  2. Penetration
  3. Integration
  4. Replication
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Characteristics of living things?

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Cell membrane
Metabolize
Stimulus
Reproduction
Development
Homeostasis
Evolve
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Prokaryotic characteristics and shapes?

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Circular DNA
No organelles
Very small

Coccus, bacillus, spiral(ium, chete)

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Prokaryotic motility, reproduction, metabolism, diversity?

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Flagella, pili

Asexual - binary fission, transduction, transformation, conjugation.

Autotrophs - producers
Photoautotrophs - photo producers
Chemoautotrophs - chemical

Heterotrophs - decomposers
Photo - photo ATP
Chemo - chemical ATP

Incredibly diverse
Gram stain*

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Protista locomotion?

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Pseudopods
Flagella
Cilia
Few nonmotile

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Paraphyletic

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a group that includes the most recent common ancestor of the group, but not all its descendants

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Phylum kinetoplastea

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Trypanosomes

Parasitic flagellated Protozoa

African sleeping sickness - tsetse fly
Chagas’ disease - acai berry

Undulating body
Flagella

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Phylum Ciliophora

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Paramecium
Unicellular

Cilia - movement and food

Contractile vacuoles

Conjugation

Dikaryotic - macro, micronucleus

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Phylum bacillariophyta

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Diatoms

Unicellular
Some colonies

Silicon dioxide shells

Pinnate, centrate

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Phylum Chlorophyta

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Green algae
Chlamydamonas
Spirogyra
Volvox

Sexual and asexual

Aquatic and terrestrial

Photosynthetic

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Phylum Rhizopoda

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Ameoba

Unicellular

Pseudopodia

Terra, aqua, parasitic

Asexual

Phagocytosis
Phagocytic vacuole

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Phylum Dictyostelia

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Plasmodial slime molds

Major decomposers

Plasmodium

Multinucleate - aseptate

Feed on small organics

Sporangia in adverse light conditions
Sclerotium in adverse conditions

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Kingdom Fungi

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Heterotrophic
Saprophytes

Best in moist environments

Chitin cell walls

Yeast and mold forms

Mycelium composed of hyphae

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Phylum Zygomycota

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Bread mold
Coenocytic - aseptate

Sporangia - asexual
Zygospore - sexual, gametangia

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Phylum Ascomycota

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Sac fungi

Usually septate

Ascocarp - 2n ascus

Conidia - asexual

Ascospores - meiosis, then mitosis

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Phylum Basidiomycota

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Club fungi

Basidiocarp - basidia

Basidiospores

Septate

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Kingdom fungi functions and uses

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Micorrhizae
Lichens
Decomposition

Food
Medicine
Diseases

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What are the two mutualistic fungi to know and their importance?

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Micorrhizae - fungus root

Lichens - symbiotic w/ algae
Fruticose, foliose, crustose

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Distinguishing characteristics of land plants

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Multicellular eukaryotes

Most live on land

Evolved from green algae

Dry land adaptations:
Protection from desiccation
Move water through tracheids
UV radiation adaptation
Haplodiplontic life cycle
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Plants from green algae evidence

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Same photosynthetic pigments

Same cell wall components

Same starch storage

Some cell division similarities

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Ecological importance of plants

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Carbon cycle

Soil building

Oxygen producers

Habitat for animals

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Bryophytes

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Bryophyta and Hepaticophyta

No vascular tissue

No stems, leaves, or roots

Gametophyte dominant

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Phylum Bryophyta

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Mosses

Antheridia - male gametophyte
Archegonia - female gametophyte
Seta - stalk

Capsule - calyptra

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Phylum Pterophyta

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Ferns
Seedless vascular plant

Stems, roots, leaves

Dominant sporophyte

Sporangium - sori