Final Exam Flashcards
Evidence that fungí are closely related to animals
- DNA
- both synthesize chitin
- flagella in chytroid spores and gametes are similar in structure and function to animal flagella
- both store glucose as the polysaccharide glycogen
How do fungi eat
Extracelular digestion, fungi secrete enzymes that break down food
Basidiomycota( fruiting body, spores, spore location, spore number)
Basidium, basidiospores, outside, 4
Ascomycota (fruiting body, spores, spore location, spore number)
Ascus, ascopores, inside ascus, 8
Mychorizzal fungi
Symbiotic relationship between fungus and plant
EMF
Fungal cells enter the roots but not cells
AMF
Fungal cells enter the cells
Lichen
Microbial community compromising of an ascomycete and a photosynthesizing partner
Saprophytes (and how they affect carbon cycle)
Organisms that digest dead materials. Without digestion of dead materials all the carbon in dead organisms would stay there
Deadly fungi: deathcap mushroom
- mychorizzal relationship with coast live oak
- pale yellow ish olive green cap
- Stalk is white
- white spores
Fungal parasites: chytridiomycosis in amphibians
Caused by parasitic chytri
Causes thickening of skin
Frogs
Valley fever
Inhaled ascomycete
Flu like symptoms
Can lead to meningitis
Animals characteristics
- Multicellular
- Extracellular matrix
- Heterotrophic
- Movement
- Most are diploid w haploid gametes
- Develop via a blastula
Feeding strategies
- suspension feeders
- fluid feeders
- deposit feeders
- mass feeders
Metamorphosis
- avoid competition between juveniles and adults
- allow movement for species that are sessile as adults
Blastula
Hollow ball of cells, allows for differentiation of tissues
Body symmetry
- asymmetry
- radial symmetry
- bilateral symmetry
- pentaradial symmetry