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AEBI 211: Organisms 2 > Unicellular Eukaryotes > Flashcards

Unicellular Eukaryotes Flashcards

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Environment

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Require moisture

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Protista

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Grouping of unicellular eukaryotes

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Protozoa

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Animal-like unicellular eukaryotes

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Protophyta

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Plant-like unicellular eukaryotes

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Disadvantages

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  • Size is limited
  • Short life span
  • No division of labour
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Advantages

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  • Rapid reproduction
  • Minimal resources required
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Locomotion: Methods

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  • Flagella
  • Cilia
  • Pseudopodia
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Undulipodia

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  • Flagella + cilia
  • 9 pairs of microtubules arranged around a central pair
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Flagella

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Propel water to the flagellum axis

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Cilia

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Propel water to the cell surface

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Pseudopodia

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  • Temporary cytoplasmic protrusions extended
  • Used for movement and phagocytosis
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Taxonomy

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Classificied by body type
* Flagellates
* Ciliates
* Amoebas

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Flagellates

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One or more flagella to propel cell

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Ciliates

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Numerous cilia covering cell membrane

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Amoebas

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  • Irregular shape
  • Travel using pseudopodia
  • PM can be covered with a ‘test’
  • ‘test’ from sand grains, Ca, or Si
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Nutrition/Digestion

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Heterotroph or autotroph

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Holozoic feeding

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Ingest visible particles of food (phagocytosis)

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Saprozoic feeding

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Ingest food in a soluble form

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Cytosome

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  • Cell mouth
  • Site of phagocytosis
  • Most ciliates, Many Flagellate
  • Amoebas don’t have (phagocytosis occurs anywhere)
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Cytoproct

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  • Site where undigestible matter is expelled
  • Many ciliates
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Reproduction

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  • Sexual by conjugation
  • Asexual by binary fission
  • Requires 2 hosts: Intermediate & definitive
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Intermediate host

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  • Asexual stage
  • Vertebrae in plasmodium
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Definitive host

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  • Sexual Stage
  • Insect in plasmodium
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3 stages of life

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  • Sporozoite: spore-like stage
  • Merozoite: intermediate stage
  • Trophozoite: Adult stage
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Macronuclei

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  • Metabolism, synthesis, development
  • Cannot survive without
  • Divide mitotically
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Micronuclei

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  • Sexual reproduction
  • Cannot reproduce without
  • Divide amitotically
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Conjugation

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  • 2 paramecium’s make contact
  • Micronuclei divide by meiosis and macronuclei degenerate
  • 3 / 4 micronuclei degenerate
  • Remaining micronuclei divides to form male & female pronuclei
  • Male pronuclei exchanged
  • Male & female pronuclei fuse

AEBI 211: Organisms 2 (31 decks)

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