Lab Exam #3 Flashcards
What are the 3 characteristics of fungi?
- cell walls of chitin
- non-motile (incapable of moving)
- nutrients obtained by absorption (absorptive heterotrophs)
What is the structure of fungi?
Hypha - filament
- asephate - no cross walls
- coenocytic - continuous mass of cytoplasm with many nuclei
- septate - cross walls present
In regard to fungi structure, what grows underground?
Mycelium (a mass of filaments called hyphae)
In regard to fungi structure, what grows above ground?
Fruiting bodies, which are reproductive structures
What are the roles of fungi?
- foods, medicines, alcohol
- decomposers (saprobic fungi) –> ex. lichens, mycorrhizae
- ## parasitism
What are the important parts of the fungi life cycle?
- zygotic meiosis
- plasmogamy (fusion of cytoplasm — n+n)
- karyogamy (fusion of nuclei — 2n)
What specific reproductive structure is each phyla named after?
- Zygomycota
- Ascomycota
- Basidiomycota
- zygosporangium
- ascocarp
- basidiocarp
What kind of relationship do lichens have?
A symbiotic relationship between an ascomycete/basidiomycete and a green algae
Define zygotic meiosis
part of a fungi’s sexual life cycle where the organism exists for more of the time as a multicellular, haploid organism.
- at some point in the haploid phase, gametes are produced by mitosis
- the diploid zygote undergoes a meiotic division and haploid spores are the result.
- these spores germinate to produce a new multicellular
What are the key characteristics of animals?
- multicellular
- heterotrophic (ingestive)
- motile
- gametic life cycle (diagnostic embryonic development — blastula and gastrula formation)
Explain gametic meiosis
1) multicellular diploid individual undergoes meiosis
2) gametes are formed (haploid), which undergo syngamy
3) a zygote is formed (diploid), which undergoes mitosis
4) a multicellular diploid individual is formed
What is the basal lineage of Metazoa and it’s key characteristics?
Phylum Porifera
- no true tissues or organs
- radial symmetry (or none)
What is the basal lineage of Eumetazoa and it’s key characteristics?
Phylum Radiata
- tissues and organs
- radial or bilateral symmetry
Phylum Bilateria
- tissues and organs
- bilateral symmetry, triploblastic
What are the Bilateria lineages and what are their key characteristics?
Protosomes
- spiral and determinate cleavage
- schizocoelous
- blastopore —> mouth
Deuterostomes
- radial and indeterminate cleavage
- Enterocoelous
- blastopore —> anus
What are the 3 coelom types? Define each
- Acoelomate (no body cavity)
- Pseudocoelomate (body cavity partially lined with mesoderm
- Eucoelomate (true coelom entirely lined with mesoderm)
What are the bilateria lineages under Phylum Protostomia?
- Lophotrochozoa (molecular evidence, a lophophore, or trochophore larva)
- Ecdysozoa (molecular evidence, shedding of outermost layer)