Unit 1: Diversity Flashcards

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Phylum Porifera

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Animalia - Sponges
- asymmetrical
- no tissues or organs
- colony of specialized cells
- filter feeders
- sessile as adults
- good powers of regeneration

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Phylum Cnidaria

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Animalia - Jellyfish, corals, anemones
- radial symmetry
- two tissue layers (inner mesoglea)
- primitive nerve net but no brain
- 2-way digestive tract
- stinging cells for capturing food

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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Animalia - Flatworms
- bilateral symmetry
- primative brain
- 3 tissue layers

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Phylum Nematoda

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Animalia - Roundworms
- No cilia or flagella
- surrounded by a protective cuticle
- can only bend side to side
- no circulatory or respiratiry system
- in unfavourable conditions can suspend life processes

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Phylum Annelida

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Animalia - segmented worms
- earthworms
- one way digestive tract
- well developed digestive and circulatory systems

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Phylum Mollusca

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Animalia - snails, slugs, clams
- either have no shell one shell or two shells
- have a hard mouth part

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Phylum Arthropoda

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Animalia - insects, centipedes, millipedes
- exoskeleton made of chitin
- must shed shell to grow

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Phylum Echinodermata

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Animalia - sea stars, sea urchins, sand dollars
- radial symmetry in adults and bilateral in larvae
- tube feet and water vascualr system
- most exhibit pentamerism

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Phylum Chordata

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Animalia - fish, birds, mammals
- dorsal hollow nerve tube
- notochord
- pharyngeal gill slits
- post anal tail

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What defines a fungi

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  • Firm cell walls (chitin)
  • spores as reproductive bodies
  • unique chromosomes and nuclei
  • includes mold, yeasts, rusts, and mushrooms
  • eukaryotic and absorptive
  • mostly unicellular
  • heterotrophic
  • mycelium
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What defines an animal

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  • eukaryotic
  • multicellular
  • heterotrophic
  • no cell wall
  • motile in some stage of life
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Phylum Chytridiomycota

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Fungi
- mainly aquatic
- some saprobic, some parasitic
- Chitin cell wall
- flagellated zoospores

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Phylum Zygomycota

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Fungi - bread molds
- zygote = “mated” hyphal strands
- live in soil and water
- some are parasites

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Phylum Ascomycota

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Fungi - truffles, yeast
- decomposers
- pathogens
- have asci (fruiting body)

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Phylum Basidiomycota

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Fungi -
- have a basidium (fruiting body, club shaped) that produces basidiospores
- food
- plant disease

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Phylum Deuteromycota

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Fungi - no longer exist - athletes foot
- saprobial, parasitic, predatory
- produce conidia
- mostly classified as ascomycota
- asexual
- penicillin

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Lichens

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A fusion of fungi and a unicellular producer (protist or a eubacteria)

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Phylum Cercezoa

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Animal-like - amoebas (endamoeba hystolitica- feeding on the lining of the small intestine)
- no cell wall
- use internal cytoskeleton to move
- pseudopods for feeding and moving

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Phylum Ciliophora

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Animal-like - balantidium coli (parasite in large intestine)
- have cilia, help with movement and sweeping food particles into the cell

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Phylum Zoomastigina

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Animal-like - species living in termites (mutualistic relationship)
- have a flagella to move
- have a hard protective layer covering their outer membrane
- some freeliving, parasitic, some in mutualistic relationships

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Phylum Sporozoa

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Animal-like - plasmodium (cause malaria in humans)
- parasites of animals
alternated between sexual and asexual reproduction
- alternate between 2 hosts

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Phylum Chrysophyta

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Plant-like - pinnularia (important oxygen producer and indicator of pollution)
- rigid cell walls (made up of two unequal parts)
- Mostly asexual reproduction by mitosis (sexual under unfavourable conditions)

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Phylum Pyrrophyta

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Plant-like - Pfiesterua Piscicids (cause large fish kills and algae booms)
- 2 flagella
- move by spinning through water
- can cause red tide
- some are in mutulistic relationships
- cause coral bleaching when temeratures rise

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Phylum Euglenophyta

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Plant-like - Phacus (photosynthetic, live in ditches, swamps, and ponds)
- photosynthesis
- have flagella and can absorb nutrients
- autotrophs in the sun and heterotrophs in the dark
- have an eyespot

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Phylum Phaeophyta

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Plant-like - kelp - brown algae
- grow in high density
- they have a stipe (long rod blades are attached too), blades (leaves), and a holdfast
- Photosynthesis

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Phylum Rhodophyta

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Plant-like - Nori (food) - red algae
- up to a meter in length
- in warm coastal areas
- can produce pigment that allows red algae to thrive deep in the ocean

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Phylum Chlorophyta

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Plant-like - Ulva (sea lettuce) - green algae
- mostly aquatic
- closest to plants
- cellulose walls

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Plasmodial slime molds

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Fungi-like
- visible to unaided eye
- contains many neclei
- engluf small particles off food into their cytoplasm
- some cytoplasm forms a skeletal structure

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cellular slime molds

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Fungi-like
- individual amoebe cells with one nucleus each
- injest tiny bacteria or yeast cells
- can release a chemical that gathers them togethet to form a pseudolasmodium

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Water molds

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Fungi-like
- filamentous
- resemble fungi
- most live on dead organic matter
- some parasites of fish, insects, and plants

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What are the taxa levels?

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Domain, Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

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How do you write names in binomial nomenclature?

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Genus species
- capitalize genus
- lowercase species
- if types italisized
- if written underlined

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What are the 6 kingdoms?

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Eubacteria, Archeabacteria, plantae, protista, animalia, fungi

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What defines a plant?

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  • photosynthesis
  • eukaryotic
  • multicellular
  • autotrophic
  • sexual reproduction
  • cellulose cell wall
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Charactersitics of eubacteria

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  • prokaryotic
  • unicellular
  • autotrophic and heterotrophic
  • cell wall is peptidoglycan
  • asexual
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Charactersitics of archeabacteria

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  • prokaryotic
  • unicellular
  • occasionally no cell wall
  • autotrophic and heterotrophic
  • asexual
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What is a virus and why are they not alive?

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A virus is an infectious agent that contains nucleic acid covered by a capsid. They are not alive because they rely on a host cell to live. They can not live independantly.

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What is a retrovirus?

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A retrovirus is a virus with RNA instead of DNA that uses an enzyme to become part of it’s host cells DNA to replicate.

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What is the lytic cycle?

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The active cycle
- inserts DNA
- DNA directs host cell to produce viral components like proteins and copies of the virus DNA
- Using these components new viruses are made
- The cell lyses and releases the new viruses

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What is the lysogenic cycle?

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The dormant cycle
- inserts DNA
- DNA inserts itself into chromosome
- The DNA is then replicated with the cells DNA
- Binary fission happens (cell division)
- provirus then leaves the hosts chromosomes

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How do we classify viruses?

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  • what they affect
  • shape and structure of their capsid (helical symmetry of cubic symmetry)
  • type of genetic material
  • method of infection
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What is the difference between archae and bacteria?

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  • Bacteria cell walls contain peptidogycan while archae never do
  • both prokaryotic
  • both unicellular
  • both heterotrophic and autotrophic
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What is a plasmid?

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Small loops fo DNA and containing genes

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Gram + and Gram -

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  • Gram positive turns purple and has a thick cell wall layer
  • Gram negative turns pink and has a thin cell wall layer
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What is binary fissions and conjugation?

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  • binary fission is asexual reproduction where a cell divides into two identical cells
  • conjugation is the prcess in which there is a transfer of genetic material involving two cells
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What is budding?

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  • asexual reproduction in fungi
  • A new organism develops from a bud on an existing organism
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What is fragmentation

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  • asexual reproduction in fungi
  • The body of the organism breaks into pieces each producing a new organism
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Germ layers

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Ectoderm - outer layer
mesoderm - middle layer
endoderm - inner layer

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How do we classify animals?

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  • number of germ layer
  • body plan and cavities
  • body symmetry
  • segmentation
  • reproduction