SPO3: Protists and Fungi Flashcards

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Clade

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A group/species that descended from one ancestral species representing one phylogenetic group.

All species in the same clade share the same common ancestor.

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Primary production

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The total amount of sugar produced by all living organisms on the planet.

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Autotroph

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Makes own food.

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Heterotroph

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Depends on outside energy souces (other than sunlight).

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Mixotroph

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Heterotrophic and autotrophic capabilities.

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Clade Euglenozoa

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  1. Grouped based on common ultrastructure of flagella and mitochondria.
  2. Unicellular.
  3. Pathogenic (African sleeping sickness).
  4. Euglina, Tripanosoma
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  1. Trypanosoma
  2. Clade: Euglenozoan
  3. Flagellum, nucleus, undulating membrane
  4. Heterotrophic, autotrophic, parasite.
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  1. Euglena
  2. Clade: Euglenozoan
  3. Heterotroph, autotroph, mixotroph.
  4. Long flagellum, short flagellum, eyespot, contractile vacuole, nucleus, chloroplast, plasma membrane, pellicle
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Clade Alveolates

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  1. Grouped based on presence of ALVIOLI, sac-like structures packed into a continuous layer just inside the cell membrane.
  2. Autotroph or heterotroph.
  3. Bioluminescent, red tide
  4. Unicellular
  5. Paramecium, Dinoflagellates
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  1. Paramecium
  2. Clade: Alveolate
  3. Single celled, heterotrophic
  4. Contractile vacuole, food vacuole, oral groove, macro-nucleus, micro-nucleus, gullet, cilia, trichocysts.
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  1. Dinoflagellates
  2. Clade: Alviolates
  3. Autotroph, heterotroph, mixotroph
  4. Flagella, plates, (flagellar) grooves.
  5. May be bioluminescent.
  6. Responsible for the bulk of primary production and oxygen production on earth.
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Clade Ameobazoans

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  1. Propel themselves with pseudopods (lobe shaped).
  2. Heterotroph (phagocytosis).
  3. Unicellular
  4. Amoebas, Slime Molds
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  1. Amoeba
  2. Clade: Amoebazoan
  3. Heterotrophs (Autotrophs are rare)
  4. Lobe shaped pseudopodia, nucleus
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  1. Slime mold
  2. Clade: Amoebazoan
  3. Plasmodium, Fruiting bodies, polynucleate
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Clade Rhizarians

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  1. Single celled heterotrophs with tests (mineral casing)
  2. Harvested for plaster and chalk.
  3. Foramaniferans, Radiolarians
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  1. Foraminiferan
  2. Clade: Rhizarian
  3. Pseudopodia, calcium carbite test (chalk)
  4. Heterotroph
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  1. Radiolarians
  2. Clade: Rhizarians
  3. Pseudopods, Silicon dioxide (glass) test
  4. Heterotroph
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Clade Stramenopiles

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  1. Grouped based on similarity of structure of flagella which contains many hair-like lateral projections
  2. Diatoms, Brown Algae
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  1. Diatoms
  2. Clade: Stramenopiles
  3. Autotroph
  4. Silica, valves (test silicon dioxide)
  5. Causes mesothelioma
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  1. Brown Algae
  2. Clade: Stramenopiles, Phaeophyta
  3. Blade, Stipe, Holdfast, air bladder
  4. Harvested for toothpaste, ice cream, beer
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  1. Red Algae
  2. Clade: Rhodophyta
  3. Contains: Phytocyanin and Phycoerytherin
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Clade: Rhodophyta

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  1. Contain chlorophyll a, and other photosynthetic pigments.
  2. Source of agar. Used to wrap suhi
  3. marine, single cell, no flagellated state.
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Clade: Chlorophyta

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  1. Marine, freshwater, and terrestial habitats.
  2. Autotroph
  3. Store amalose (starch)
  4. Chlorophyll a and b
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1 Green Algae

  1. Clade: Chlorophyta
  2. Spiral chloroplasts
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Kingdom: Fungi

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  1. Most multicellular, some unicellular
  2. Heterotrophic by absorption
  3. Sexual, asexual, and unknown reproduction cycles
  4. Produce spores
  5. Cell walls make of Chitin
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Zygomycota Fungi

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  1. Rhizopus (Bread mold) and Pilobolous (dung fungi)
  2. create sporangia to spread spores
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  1. Rhizopus
  2. Zygomycola fungi
  3. hyphae, mycelium, chitin cell walls, sporangium
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  1. Pilobolous
  2. Zygomycola Fungi
  3. Dung fungus
  4. hyphae, sporangium
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Ascomycota Fungi

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The Sac Fungi - Morels, Truffles, Yeasts, Blights, Dutch Elm Disease, Penicillium spp.

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Imperfect fungi

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  1. do not reproduce sexually.
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Basidomycota Fungi

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The Club fungi (puffballs, shelf fungus, toadstools, mushrooms, wheat rust, corn smut).

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Lichens

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Sybiosis of a fungus and either a green algae or a cyanobacterium (photosynthesizing bacteria), forming a body called a THALLUS.

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Lichen:

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Crustose thallus

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Lichen:

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Foliose thallus

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Lichen:

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Fruiticose thallus

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Contractile Vacuole

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Vacuole which prevents organism from lysing.

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Pelicle

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Protein bands beneath plasma membrane, provides strength, flexibility, prevents lysing.

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Eyespot

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Allows for distinction between light and dark.

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Cili

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tiny projections of cell membrane. Allows for locomotion.

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Oral grove

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Mouth equivalent

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Macronucleus

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Used for day to day activities

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Micronucleus

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Used to help gene transfer during replication.

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Pseudopod

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‘False feet’ used by amoebazoans.

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Polynucleated

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100’s of 1000’s of nuclei, such as a slime mold.

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Test

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Mineral casing around the protist, usually either chalk or glass.

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Blade

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Analogous to the leaf. Function is photosynthesis.

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Stipe

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Analagous to the stem/trunk. No vascular tissue, hollow, full of CO and CO2.

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Holdfast

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Analagous to the roots. Anchors algae to substrate.

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Air Bladders (Numatosis)

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Bueys algae up. Full of CO and CO2.

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Hyphae

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Rope like structure, A mass of mycelium.

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Mycelium

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Fungal roots. Mushroom is a mass of mycelium known as hyphae.

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Annulus

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The skirt around a poisonous mushroom.

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Sporangium

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Site of spore production.

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Ascus

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Houses spores in sac.

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Ascocarp

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Houses asci.

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Symbiosis

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2 or more species living in close proximity, benefiting and interacting with each other.