Lab Practicum 2 Flashcards
Nitrogen fixation
Root nodules w/ rhizobium
Kingdom Bacteria
3 shapes: coccus, bacillus, spirillium.
Gram negative, positive
Circle, pinpoint, irregular, filamentous, & wrinkled - morphologies
Cyanobacteria
Oscillatoria - filament: trichomes
Anabaena - heterocyst; N fixation
Gleocapsa - sheath, glue box
Differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes -
Euk - nucleus, membranous organelles, larger in size, uses methionine, whiplike flagella, cilia, pseudopod
Pro - cell walls of peptidoglycan, no organelles, circular DNA, formyl-methionine, pili, binary fission, pili
Phylum Chlorophyta
Chlamydomonas - stigma (eyespot), syngamy forming zygospores.
Spirogyra - conjugation through conjugation tube forming a zygote.
Volvox - colonial w/ daughter colonies inside.
Kingdom Protista
Algae Phyla:
Chlorophyta - volvox
Bacillariophyta - diatoms
Euglenida - euglena
Protozoa & slime phyla: Rhizopoda - amoeba Kinetoplastea - Trypanosoma Ciliophora - paramecium Dictyostelia - Physarum
Phylum Bacillariophyta
Diatoms
Centrate (radial), pennate (bilateral)
Silicon dioxide shell
Phylum Euglenida
Euglena
Flagellum, eyespots, pellicle for support
Phylum Rhizopoda
Amoeba
Pseudopod, phagocytosis, contractile vacuole, phagocytic (food) vacuole
Phylum Kinetoplastea
Trypanosoma
Flagellated parasites, undulating membrane for movement.
Chagas’ disease; Acai berry, African sleeping sickness; tsetse fly
Phylum Ciliophora
Paramecium
Cilia, macro/micro nucleus, phagocytic vacuole, dikaryotic
Phylum Dictyostelia
Physarum
Plasmodium, sporangium (w/ light), sclerotium (hard shell phase)
Kingdom Fungi
Phyla:
Zygomycota - Rhizopus
Ascomycota - Penicillium
Basidiomycota - Portabella
Lichens
Hyphae, mycelium, plasmogamy, karyogamy, saprotrophs
Kingdom Plantae
Alternation of generations
Gametophyte, Sporophyte, Sporangium, Spore
Non vascular, vascular, seeds, flowers
Phylum Basidiomycota
Portabella
conidium, basidospore, cap, gill, stipe (stem), pileus (cap), basidiocarp, basidium
Phylum Ascomycota
Penicillium
conidium, conidiophore, ascospore, ascocarp, ascus, imperfect fungi
Phylum Zygomycota
Rhizopus
Sporangiophore, sporangium, zygospore, rhizoid
Lichens
Mutualism of Cyanobacteria and fungi
Thallus, crustose, foliose, fruticose
Phylum Hepaticophyta
Marchantia - liverworts
Non vascular
Gametophyte dominant
Thallus, gemma, gemmae cup, archegonium, antheridium, capsule, foot, stalk, elators