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What are the types three types of origin of life?

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Bacteria, Eukarya, Archea

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What do we call eukaryotes that are not plants, animals, or fungi?

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Protists

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What are monophyletic?

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Eukaryotes

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What is mostly more related to Archea than Bacteria?

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Eukaryotes

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What two things are derived from bacterial lineages?

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Mitochondria and Chloroplasts

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What resulted in the loss of rigid cell walls?

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Cell membrane to fold inward and create surface area which resulted in larger cells

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What gave rise to mitochondria and chloroplasts?

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Endosymbiosis

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What resulted in the increased compartmentalization and complexity?

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Development of complex cytoskeleton
Formation of ribosome studded internal membranes
The enclosure of DNA in a nucleus

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Where did cytoskeletons evolve?

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Prokaryotes

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What did the development of microfilaments and microtubules do?

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Allowed changes in Shape, Distribution of daughter chromosomes, movement, and eukaryotic flagella

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What did nuclear envelope do?

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Developed in eukaryote evolution, arising from DNA attached to the membrane, Prokaryote DNA is attached to the inner plasma membrane.

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Phagocytosis

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Ability to engulf and digest other cells

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Endosymbiosis

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A proteobacterium was incorporated and evolved into mitochondrion

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What was the original function of mitochondria?

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Detoxify the O2 produced by cyanobacteria. Later coupled with formation of ATP

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Primary endosymbiosis

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A cyanobacterium was engulfed by a larger eukaryotic cell

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Where can the remnants of peptidoglycan be found?

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Glaucophytes

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How many membranes do chloroplasts have?

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Two

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Secondary endosymbiosis

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A eukaryote is engulfed a green alga cell which became chloroplast.

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What do the chloroplasts of Euglenoids have?

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Three membranes

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Tertiary Endosymbiosis

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Dinoflagellate lost chloroplast and took protist that had acquired chloroplast through secondary endosymbiosis

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Protists Eukaryotes

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Unicellular and microscopic (microbial eukaryotes)

Some are multicellular and large (giant kelp)

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Major groups of Eukaryotes

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Plantae, Fungi, Choanoflagellates, Animals

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Unicellular Eukaryotes

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Associate in colonies, continuum from unicellular to fully multicellular.

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Alveolates

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Beneath cell membrane.

  • Dinoflagellates
  • Apicomplexans
  • Ciliates
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Dinoflagellates

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Photosynthetic, primary producers in oceans.

  • Cause red tides
  • Endosymbionts with invertebrates
  • Some nonphotosynthetic parasites
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One flagellum of Dinoflagellates

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Originates within equatorial groove and provides thrust and spin to the organism

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Second flagellum of Dinoflagellates

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Originates in the longitudinal groove and acts like the rudder of a boat.

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Apicomplexans

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Obligate parasites

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Apical Complex

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Organelles at the tip of the cell that help it invade host tissue

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Plasmodium

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Produces malaria

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Ciliates

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Numerous hairlike cilia ( identical to eukaryotic flagella)

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Ciliates include:

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  • Complex body forms and two types of nuclei

- Heterotrophic; some have photosynthetic endosymbionts

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Tetrahymena Thermophila

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Model organism for research on gene expression and structure and function of microtubule arrays

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Didinium Nasutum (barrel)

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Feeds on other ciliates and cilia occur in two separate bands.

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Euplotes

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Fuse into flat sheets that direct food particle into an oral groove

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Paramecium

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A ciliate covered by a flexible pellicle with trichocysts - defensive organelles.

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Paramecium includes:

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  • Lives in fresh water: Contractile vacuoles excrete excess water taken in by osmosis.
  • Digestive Vacuoles
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Stramenopiles

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Rows of tubular hairs on the longer of their two flagella. Some lack flagella, but descended from ancestors that possessed them.

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Stramenopiles include:

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Diatoms
Brown algae
Oomycetes

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Diatoms

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Unicellular, some species associate in filaments carotenoids give them a yellow or brownish color.

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Diatoms include:

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  • Lack flagella except male gametes
  • Deposit silicon dioxide in two piece cell walls
  • Reproduce both sexually and asexually
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Brown Algae

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Brown color comes from the carotenoid fucoxanthin

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Brown algae includes:

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  • Multicellular, marine
  • Develop holdfasts with alginic acid to glue them to rocks
  • Alginic Acid is an emulsifier
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Oomycetes

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Water molds, downy mildews.

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Oomycetes include:

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  • Absorptive heterotrophs- digest large food molecules into smaller molecules
  • Water molds- aquatic and saprobic ( feed on dead organic matter)
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Rhizaria

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Unicellular and mostly aquatic; long and thin pseudopods

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Rhizaria include:

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Cercozoans
Foraminiferans
Radiolarians

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Foraminiferans

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External shells of calcium carbonate

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Farominiferans include:

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  • Brached pseudopods form sticky nets to catch smaller plankton.
  • Shells have produced world’s limestone
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Excavates include:

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  • Diplomonads
  • Parabasalids
  • Euglenids
  • Kinetoplastids
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Diplomonads and Parabasalids

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Unicellular and lack mitochondria

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Giardia Lambia

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Causes intestinal disease giardiasis

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Parabasalids

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Undulating membranes that aid locomotive

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Trichomonas Vaginalis

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Causes trichomoniasis

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Giardia

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Dimplomand, has flagella and two nuclei

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Trichomonas

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Parabasalid, flagella and undulating membranes

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Euglenids and Kinetoplastids

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Mitochondria with disc shaped cristae and flagella with a crystalline rod.

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Eugleinds

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Some heterotrophic or photosynthetic.

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Euglena

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Second flagellum is rudimentary and primary flagellum orignates at the anterior of organism and trails toward posterior.

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Kinetoplastids

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Parasites with two flagella

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What does mitochondrion have?

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Kinetoplast that contains multiple circular DNA molecules

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Typanosomes

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Pathogens

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Three kinetoplastid Typanosomones

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Typanosoma Brucei
Typanosoma Cruzi
Leishmania Major

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Trypanosoma Brucei

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Sleeping sickness

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Trypanosoma Cruzi

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Chagas’ Disease

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Leshmania Major

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Leishmaniasis

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Amoebozoans

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Amoeboid body form; lobe-shaped pseudopods

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Amoebozoans include:

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Loboseans

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Loboseans

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Feed by phagocytosis, engulfing smaller organisms and particles with pseudopods.

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Loboseans include;

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Living on the bottoms

Testate amoebas live in shells made from sand grains or secreted by organisms

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Asexual Reproduction

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  • Equal splitting by mitosis followed cytokinesis.
  • Splittting once cell into multiple cells
  • Budding
  • Sporulation
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Budding

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Outgrowth of a new cell from the surface

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Sporulation

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Formation of specialized cells that can develop into new individuals

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Offspring from asexual reproduction

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Genetically identical-clonal lineages.

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Reproduction in Patamecium

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  • Two types of nuclei

- Asexual Reproduction

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Conjugation

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Two individuals fuse and exchange micronuclei; a sexual process, but not reproductive

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What happens in the exchange of micronuclei in Paramecium?

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Genetic recombination, after conjugation, cells separate and continue their lives as two individuals.

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Alternation of Generations

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  • Diploid gives rise to haploid.
  • Haploid and diploid may reproduce asexually
  • Occurs in protists, plants and some fungi.
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Heteromorphic

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Two generations differ morphologically

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Isomorphic

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Two generations are similar

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Sporocytes

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Diploid organism, divide meiotically produce haploid spores.

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Spores develop

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Haploid organims

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Haploid organism produce

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Gametes, by mitosis and cytokinesis

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Gametes fuse

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Produce diploid organism

85
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Primary producers in aquatic ecosystems

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Phytoplankton

86
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How much do diatoms perform in carbon fixation ?

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1/5, same amount as the rainforests.

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Phytoplankton includes

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Contribute to global photosynthesis

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Some Microbial eukaryotes

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Pathogens

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Plasmodium

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Parasites that cause malaria.

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Phytoplankton result in

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Red tide and toxins produced that can kill or harm vertebrates.

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Microbial eukaryotes live as

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Endisymbionts

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Photosynthetic Dinoflagellates

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Endosymnionts in coral

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Diatoms store energy

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As oil

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Foraminiferan Shells

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Make up extensive limestone deposits.

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