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Review Sheet #7: Fungi, Algae, and Protists Flashcards

1
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Mycellium

A

A matt of hyphae

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Actinomycetes

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  • Gram +
  • High G+C content
  • Bacteria that act like golgi
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Exospores

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Produced by asexual sporulation

Formed outside cell wall

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4
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Endospores

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Formed inside cell wall

By sexual sporulation (?)

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Classes in Eumycota (6 total)

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  1. Basidiomycota
  2. Zygomycota
  3. Ascomycota
  4. Chitrids
  5. Glomeromycota
  6. Microspora
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Basidiomycota

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  • Typical mushroom
  • Smuts, rusts, and plant pathogens
  • Basidiospores in gills
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Zygomycota

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Bread mold

Spores have thick, black coats

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Ascomycota

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  • Spores surrounded by ascus (sac)
  • Yellow mold
  • Morell, yeast, pombe
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9
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Chytrids

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  • Live underwater
  • Parasites
  • Flagella
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Glomeromycota

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  • Symbiotic with plants

- Mycorhizae

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11
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Microspora

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  • Used to be considered protists
  • Pathogens
  • Spring loaded polar filament
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12
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Streptomyces makes…

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Antibiotics

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13
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4 important actinomycetes

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  1. Mycobacterium
  2. Soil Bacteria
  3. Streptomyces
  4. Bifidobacterium
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14
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Mycobacterium

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Acid fast (mycolic acid)

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15
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Soil Bacteria

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Gives dirt its smell

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16
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Bifidobacterium

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Probiotic

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17
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Mycology

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Study of Fungi

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Thallus

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  • Form/Body of organism

- Not a phallus

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19
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Dikaryotic

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  • Stage of sexual reproduction

- Nuclei share cytoplasm, no fusion

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20
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5 Characteristics of Eumycota

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  1. Eukaryote
  2. Saprophyte
  3. Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
  4. No photosynthesis
  5. Chitin in cell wall
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21
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Saprophyte

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Secretes enzymes onto dead organic material, then absorbs soluble product

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22
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Coencytic Hyphae

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Nuclei sharing 1 cytoplasm

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Septate Hyphae

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Hyphae have divisions between cells

24
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Protist Classification (3)

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  1. Sarcomastigophora
  2. Apicomplexa
  3. Euglenoids
25
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4 types of sexual sporulation

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  1. Arthrospores
  2. Sporangiospores
  3. Conidiospores
  4. Blastospores
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Arthrospores

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Hyphae fragments —> Spores

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Sporangiospores

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Sac of spores surrounded by membrane

28
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Conidiospores

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Naked chains of spores

29
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Blastospores

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Made by budding

30
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Rhizoidal Hyphae

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Hyphae growing down like roots

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Aerial Hyphae

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Hyphae pointing up

32
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Fungal YM Shift

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Switching modes of growth Yeast/Mycelium

33
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2 types of growth in fungal YM shift

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  1. Yeast

2. Mycelium

34
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Sexual Sporulation in 3 types of Eumycota

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  1. Basidiomycota
  2. Zygomycota
  3. Ascomycota
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Cell Division in S. Cervisiae

36
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Cell Division in S Pombe

37
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Mycorhizae

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Fungi-roots into the body of plant. Grows on/into plant

38
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Plasmodium

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Structure of mold, no cell wall. Cytoplasm

39
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Fruiting body

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Part of fungus that contains spores

40
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“Slug”

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Slime mold on the move when nutrients scare

41
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Dictyostelium

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Cellular slime molds
Amoeba
Slug

42
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Algae characteristics

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  1. Eukaryote
  2. Oxygenic photosynthesis with chlorophyll
  3. Lacks vasculature system
43
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Phycology

A

Study of Algae

44
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Pyrenoid

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Large Structure for Starch Storage inside chloroplast.

45
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Eyespot

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Photosensitive

46
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Fragmentation

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Each cell of a multicell organism can become a unique organism

47
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Green Algae

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  1. Chlamydomonas

2. Volvox

48
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Chlamydoonas

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1 cell, 2 flagella

Big eyespot

49
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Volvox

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1,000 chlamy-like cells in a ball

50
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Golden-Brown/ Yellow-Green algae

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Diatoms, Frustules

51
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Frustules

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2-part protective coat

52
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Brown Algae

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  • Kelp and other seaweed

- Each cell does own photosynthesis

53
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Red Algae

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  • Deeper in Ocean
  • Makes Agar
  • Decreased light = lower wavelength = red
54
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2 specific green algae

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  1. Chalmydomonas

2. Volvox

55
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2 algae important to plankton

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  1. Diatoms

2. Dinoflaggelates

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