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Lecture 5: Algae Flashcards

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Where is photosynthesis widespread?

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Photosynthesis is widespread (polyphyletic) in Eukaryotes

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What are algae?

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Algae are photosynthetic eukaryotes other than land plants

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Describe most algae

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  1. Most algae are aquatic (both freshwater and marine)

2. Many are unicellular

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Describe most multicellular species

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Most multicellular species produce bodies in which all cells are in contact with the environment (simple multicellularity)

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What two things are closely related? What is the group they form called?

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Plants and green algae are closely related and together form a monophyletic group.

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What features of land plants are present in some green algae?

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Many of the…
1) key physiological
2) structural features
of land plants are present in some green algae

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The ____________, ______________, and _________ are the green algae most closely related to land plants.

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1) Charales
2) Coleochaetales
3) Zygnematales

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What do the Charles, coleochaetales, and zygnematales all have?

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1) All occur in freshwater
2) All have a haplontic life cycle
3) All produce sporopollenin in the cell walls of the zygote

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What are the six features found in the green algae and in plants that are thought to have played a role in the transition to land?

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Great POMPS

1) The use of the enzyme Glycolate oxidase in photoresipiration
2) Phragmoplast
3) Oogamy
4) Matrotrophy
5) Plasmodesmata
6) Sporopollenin

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What is oogamy?

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Oogamy is a mode of fertilization where a nonflagellated gamete (the egg) is fertilized by a flagellated gamete, as in humans

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What is matrotrophy?

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Matrotrophy is the retention of the fertilized egg (the zygote) and supply of “maternal” care to it

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What is sporopollenin?

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Sporopollenin is a complex polymer hat serves a protective function

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What is the phragmoplast?

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The phragmoplast is the cytoskeletal structure responsible for the deposition of the cell plate

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What are plasmodesmata?

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Plasmodesmata are microscopic channels that allow communication between cells

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What is glycolate oxidase?

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Glycolate oxidase increases the efficiency with which 2-Carbon molecules produced during photorespiration are recycled

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What is a phylogeny?

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A phylogeny is a starting point of the evolutionary diversification of plants and a way to organize information about the past

A hypothesis of the evolutionary relationships among species or other entities

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What does a node indicate?

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A node indicates the last common ancestor

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What does monophyletic mean?

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A group consisting of all the descendants of a common ancestor
- MUST all have the SAME last common ancestor

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What is a paraphyletic group?

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A paraphyletic group includes some, but NOT all, descendants

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When are paraphyletic groups useful?

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Paraphyletic groups can be useful when they refer to organisms that are functionally similar
- For example, Turtles, Lizards, and Crocodiles are not all descendants but are functionally similar

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Within a Eukaryotic tree, which relationships are unresolved?

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the deepest relationships are unresolved (polygamy)

- It’s therefore harder to know who’s related to who

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What is polygamy?

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a flat line indicating we don’t know the relationship

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What are algae?

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Algae is an informal term for photosynthetic eukaryotes that are not “land plans” and are typically aquatic
- polyphyletic

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What is polyphyletic?

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when you group an organism by characteristics

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Describe rhodophyta

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  • Red Algae
  • Mostly multicellular
  • Chlorophyll (a & c) and phycobilins (red pigment)
  • Some crustose red algae grow at a depth of 250 meters
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What are two traits of algae that are of interest

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1) Cellulose in cell walls (occurs in all of these groups)

2) Sporopollenin (found in cell walls of some chlorophytes and in land plants and close green algal relatives)

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Describe green algae

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  • Chlorophyll a and b
  • starch stored in chloroplasts
  • 2-7 thylakoids stacked in grana
  • stellate flagella
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State 3 types of green algae

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1) Chlorophyta
2) Volvox
3) Dasycladales
4) Ulva (sea lettuce)

29
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What is chlamydomonas?

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a unicellular chlorophyte with a haplontic life cycle (vegetative - doing photosynthesis and metabolic activity)

30
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Describe gametes

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gametes can’t live very long - if they don’t fuse then they die
- spores can survive much longer

31
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What is ulva?

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Sea lettuce

- a multicellular chlorophyte with alternation of generations

32
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All plants have ______________ and are distinguished by __________

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All plants have alternation of generations and are distinguished by ploidy

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All _____________ have a haplontic life cycle

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All streptophyte algae have a haplontic life cycle

34
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Features found in all streptophyte algae

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  • fresh water
  • haplontic
  • sporopollenin (zygote)
  • phragmoplast
  • plasmodesmata
  • open mitosis
  • glycolate oxidase
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What feature did all 3 candidates of the closest alga relative to plants share?

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the presence of sporopollenin in the wall of the zygote

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What is sporopollenin?

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Sporopollenin is the most degradation resistant polymer known
- protection from UV radiation, desiccation, damage

37
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Where do green algae grow?

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green algae grow in freshwater habitats where water levels fluctuate

38
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Filaments type of cell division

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filaments, single plane of cell division

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Sheets type of cell division

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Sheets, two planes of cell division

40
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Parenchymatous type of cell division

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Parenchymatous, three planes of cell division

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_________ and ________ allow for complex multicellular development

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phragmoplast and cell plate allow for complex multicellular development

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What are plasmodesmata?

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span two cell walls and their connections together - control what moves between them

43
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All cells have _____________-

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intercellular connections

44
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What moves between cells?

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There are intercellular movements of proteins, mRNA, small molecules, and virus particles

45
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What happens in “open” mitosis?

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In “open” mitosis, the nuclear envelope breaks down before the chromosomes separate (and then reforms around the two sets of chromosomes)
- fungi and animals

46
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What happens in “closed” mitosis?

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In “closed” mitosis, the nuclear envelope remains intact (later pinches to form two nuclei)

47
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What is rubisco?

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rubisco is the enzyme that catalyzes the entry of CO2 into the Calvin cycle

48
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What can rubisco also catalyze?

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Rubisco can also catalyze a reaction with O2 (instead of CO2) which leads to a loss of carbon and energy

  • this is because rubisco has trouble distinguishing O2 and CO2
  • higher rates at higher temperatures
49
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What is glycolate oxidase?

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an enzyme that helps mitigate against the losses in carbon and energy that occur when rubisco reacts with oxygen

  • deals with temperature fluctuations
  • selectivity comes with speed –> if very selective also very slow
50
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What are oogamous and what does it mean?

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Choleochaete and Chara/Nitella are oogamous meaning they make eggs and swimming sperm

51
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What are conjugating algae and what does it mean?

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Zygnematales are conjugating algae - fertilization involves cytoplasmic bridges between cells
- eggs don’t move and sperm/male component moves

52
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Where are gametes produced?

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gametes produced in gametangia

53
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Where are sperm produced?

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sperm produced in the antheridium

54
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Where are eggs retained?

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eggs retained in the oogonium

55
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All green algae have _________ via ________

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all green algae have haplontic life cycles via mitosis

56
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What are chara lifecycles triggered by?

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chara lifecycle triggered by stress

form a diploid

57
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What is matrotrophy?

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wall ingrowths indicate nutrient transfer to zygote

58
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What do zygotes undergo and what does this produce?

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zygotes undergo meiosis which produce four haploid daughter cells that undergo 2 to 3 mitotic divisions which produce haploid “meiospores” that then disperse

59
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How can haploid alga also reproduce?

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can also reproduce asexually (mitotically produced zoospores)

60
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What are zygnematales?

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1) no swimming sperm

2) dismiss floating around and have to come into contact with a spirogyra

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What is desiccation tolerance?

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the ability to survive drying and go back to metabolic processes when rehydrated

62
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What is photorespiration?

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when rubisco acts on oxygen with an acceptor carbohydrate molecule

63
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Gamete vs. spore

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Gamete: always fuse
- no independent existence

Spore - grow up on its own
- persists

64
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What is alternation of generations?

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genetically distinct in policy

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