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Species and Taxa covered in 2C
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Undergraduate 2
05/08/2013

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Coleochaete
Definition
plantae, non-vascular, water living, pancake growth
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Chara
Definition
plantae, non-vascular, water living, apical and branching growth, thought to be sister to the land plants
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Land Plants(embryophytes)
Definition
vascular, lycophytes, monilophytes, seed plants, dominant sporophyte
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seed plants
Definition
gymnosperms, angiosperms, heterosporous, pollen, seeds (integument, ovule)
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lycophytes
Definition
salaginella, lycopodium, vascular dichotomously branching roots, club mosses, sporangia in cone-like strobili, homo/heterosporous, dominant sporophyte
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liverworts
Definition
hepatophyta, thaloid gametophytes or thin sheets of cell with antheridia and archegonia on top and rhyzoids on the bottom, dominant gametophyte
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mosses
Definition
bryophyta, dominant gametophyte, have first form of sugar/water transport (hydroid cells)
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hornworts
Definition
anthocerophyta, each cell has single chloroplast, sporophyte can grow indeterminately, horn-like sporophyte, green plate base, dominant gametophyte
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horsetails
Definition
Equisetum, vascular, silica deposits, large sporophyte and small gametophyte (both independent), reduced megaphylls in distinct whorls
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whisk ferns
Definition
psilotum and tmesiperis, reduced megaphylls, vascular, no true roots
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leptosporangiate ferns(most ferns)
Definition
vascular, dominant sporophyte, uncoil from fiddle head, megaphylls, sporangia on bottom of leaves release spores in mature plants
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rhyniophytes
Definition
earliest known vascular plants
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gymnosperms
Definition
cycads, gingkos, gnetophytes, conifers
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cycads
Definition
cycadophyta,gymnosperm, vascular, palm like, manytimes toxic to humans
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ginkgo
Definition
ginkgophyta, vascular, gymnosperm, only Ginkgo biloba, male and female trees, x and y chromosomes
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gnetophytes
Definition
gnetophyta, vascular, welwitschia, two strap like leaves
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conifers
Definition
coniferophyta, vascular, gymnosperm, pines, redwoods, strobili of both sexes on the same tree
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angiosperms
Definition
amborella, water lilies, star anise, magnoliids, monocots, eudicots, flowering plants
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chromalveolates
Definition
euk,haptophyta, apicomplexans, dinoflagellates, ciliates, brown algae, diatoms, oomycetes, 2nd endosymp of red algae
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haptophytes
Definition
eukaryotic,chromalveolates, unicellular, flagella, some armored with scales
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alveolates
Definition
euk,apicomplexans,chromalveolates, dinoflagellates, ciliates, vesicles under plasma membrane
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stramenopiles
Definition
euk, chromalveolates, brown algae, diatoms, oomycetes, two uneven flagella longer one with hairs
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dinoflagellate
Definition
euk, chromalveolates, alveolates, some endosymbionts and parasites, usually marine, photosynthetic, unicellular, two flagella some amoeboid, some harmful to fish
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apicomplexans
Definition
euk, chromalveolates, alveolates, parasitic, mass organelles at tip help invade host,plasmodium(malaria) and toxoplasma(changes rat behavior), nonphotosynthetic chloroplast
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ciliates
Definition
euk, chromalveolates, alveolates, ciliate, mostly heterotrophic, two types of nuclei,
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diatoms
Definition
euk,stramenopiles, chromalveolates, photosynthetic
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brown algae
Definition
euk,stramenopiles, chromalveolates, photosynthetic, color due to pigments,
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diatoms
Definition
euk,stramenopiles, chromalveolates,most unicellular, make carbohydrates and oil as storage products, lack flagella, radially or bilaterally symmetrical, reprod sexual and asexual, marine photosynthesizers, make diatomaceous earth and some sedimentary rocks
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brown algae
Definition
euk, chromalveolate,stramenopiles, fucoxanthin makes hallmark color, all multicellular, marine, filaments or leaflike, glue to rocks with alginate acid
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oomycetes
Definition
euk, chromalveolates, stramenopiles, water molds and downy mildews, filamentous absorptive heterotrophs, cellulose cell walls, some plant parasites, some coencytic, all aquatic and saprobic
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plantae
Definition
glaucophytes, red algae, chlorophytes, land plants, charophytes
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glaucophytes
Definition
euk, plantae, unicellular fresh water, chloroplast with a little peptodoglycan,
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red algae
Definition
euk, plantae, multicellular most, accessory pigment phycoerythrin, phycocyanin,carotenoids, chlorophyll a, not all red, no flagellate cells, produce a source of agar
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chlorophytes
Definition
euk, plantae, green algae,chloro a and b, volvox, oedogonium (multicellular)
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charaphytes
Definition
euk, plantae
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excavates
Definition
euk, diplomonads, parabasalids, heteroloboseans, euglenids, kinetoplastids
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diplomonads
Definition
euk, excavates,unicellular, lack mitochondria, giardia lamblia contaminates water,
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parabasalids
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euk, excavates, unicellular, lack mitochorndria, trichomonas vaginalis sexually transmitted, undulating membranes locomotion
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heteroloboseans
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euk, excavates, amoeboid and flagellate stages, naeglaria(fatal disease of nervous system)
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euglenids
Definition
euk, excavates, flagella, spiralling proteins under membrane, photosynthetic, autotrophic and heterotrophic,
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kinetoplastids
Definition
euk, excavates, unicellular, parasites, two flagella, one large mitochondria, trypanosomes
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rhizaria
Definition
euk, cercozoans, foraminiferans, radiolarians
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cercozoans
Definition
euk, rhizaria, amoeboid and flagellate, aquatic and soil, some chloroplasts w trace of green algae nucleus
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foraminiferans
Definition
euk, rhizaria, shell of calcium carbonate, limestone making, stick pseudopodia out of shell, catch other plankton
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radiolarians
Definition
euk, rhizaria, thin stiff pseudopodia, radial symmetry, unicellular large,
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unikonts
Definition
euk, fungi, choanoflagellates, animals, loboseans, plasmodial slime molds, cellular slime molds
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amoebozoans
Definition
euk, loboseans, plasmodial slime molds, cellular slime molds, pseudopodia
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loboseans
Definition
euk, amoebozoans, unicellular, feed by phagocytosis, predators or parasites or scavengers, some are shelled by sand grains
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slime molds
Definition
euk, amoebozoans, motile, endocytosis eating, form spores in erect structures called fruiting bodies, aggregate
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plasmodial slime molds
Definition
euk, amoebozoans, multinucleate mass, diploid nuclei, cytoplasmic streaming
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