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Dr.Cadell Lab flashcards for exam 1
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
09/05/2012

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What are anabena?

What is the mode of nutrition?

What are the key morphological features?

 

 

Definition

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Cyanobacteria species that form filamentous colonies.

Modes of nutrition:Nitrogen fixation and Photosynthesis.

Have special cells called heterocytes that carry out nitrogen fixation.

 

Term

What are Unikonts?

What is their mode of nutrition?

Definition

Group of eukaryotes that form two clades the amebozoans and the opisthokonts.

All unikonts are heterotrophs

Term

What are Protists?

What are their modes of nutrition?

What are their key morphological differences?

Definition

extremely diverse primarily unicellular group of organisms.

Modes of nutrition: Photoautotrophs, Heterotrophs, or mixotrophs.

Utilize various mechnisms to move such as cilia or flagella

Term

What are Physarum polycephalum?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

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Organism in the clade plasmodial slime mold under the clade slime molds under the clade unikonta.

Mode of nutrition: Heterotrophic.

Has a multinucleic feeding stage

during cytoplasmic streaming psudopodia are extended to engulf microbes and spores.

Term

What are Ameoba proteus?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

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Group in the clade ameobozoan under the clade unikonta.

Mode of Nutrition: Heterotroph

Have lobe or tube shaped pseudopodia by which they move and engulf prey.

Term

What are Porphyra?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

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Multicellular red algae under that clade archaeplastida.

Mode of nutrition: Photoautotroph.

Chlorophyll masked by a red pigment called phycoerythin

Term

What are Chlamydomonas?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

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Unicellular green algae in the clade archaeplastida.

Mode of nutrition:Photoheterotroph

has a cell wall and a single cup-shaped chloroplast.

Term

What are Volvox?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

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A photosynthetic colonial green algae in the clade Archaeplastida.

Mode of Nutrition: Photoautotroph

The wall of the colony is composed of hundreds of cells of the same type, connected by cytoplasmic strands, embeded in a gelatinous matrix.

Each cell has two flagella

 

Term

What are Ulva?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

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Group in the clade archaeplastida

Mode of Nutrition: Photosynthetic

Has blades and a holdfast but lack vascular tissue

 

Term

What are Eugelena?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

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Species in the clade Excavata

Mixotrophic

Evolved from the secondary endosymbiosis of green algae

Move by means of flagellum

Have an eyspot to sense light

Have a thin layer of tissue outside the plasma membrane called a pellicle to add protection

Term
What did the clade chromalveolata originate from?
Definition
The secondary endosymbiosis of red alga.
Term

What are Dinoflagellates?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

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Clade within the group chromalveolata

Mixotrophic,heterotrophic,And photosynthetic.

Cell walls are covered with an "armor" of cellulose plates.

Have 2 flagella located in perpendicular grooves in the "armor"

The positions of the flagella cause the dinoflagellates to spin as they move through water.

Term

What are Parmecium?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

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Group within the clade cilliates under the clade Chromalveolata.

Are heterotrophic.

Covered with thousands of hairlike flagella called cilia.

They take in food at a point called the cytosome where cillia create a current of water where food is wafted into the cell and digested in the food vacuole

They are able to get rid of excess water with a structure known as a contractile vacuole which swells with water then finally realeses the water outside the cell.

Term

What are Diatoms?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

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Group in the clade Chromalveolata.

They are photosynthetic.

They have ornate glass-like cell walls composed of silica.

The two wall fit together like a box.

Some are radially symmetrical others are bilaterally symmetrical.

Term

What are Luminaria?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

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Group with in the clade brown algae in the clade chromalveolata.

Mode of nutrition: photosynthetic

Appear to have true stems, leaves and roots but have no vascular tissue.

Term

What are Fungi?

What is their mode(s) of nutrition?

What is(are) their key morpholigical difference(s)?

Definition

primarily multicellular non-motile organisms.

They are heterotrophic.

They may be decomposer,parasites,or mutualists.

Their bodies are composed of filaments called hyphae, and the cell wall are strengthened by chitin.

A mass of Hyphae is called a mycellium which penetrates the substrate its growing on.

They do not digest food but secrete hydrolitic enzymes that break down their food which they then absorb.

Term
What are basidiomycetes?
Definition

Include mushrooms and shelf fungi.

They are called club fungi because their spores are borne on the tips of club shaped basidia

form elaborate fruiting bodies known as basidiocarps.

 

Term
What is the Fruiting body of a Basidiomycete called?
Definition
A Basidiocarp.
Term

Identify each structure?

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Definition

1.Hyphae

2.Basidia (structures that produce basidiospores)

Term
What are Shelf or Bracket fungi?
Definition

Basidiomycetes that grow on dead or damaged trees.

The "Bracket" is the basidiocarp and the remainder of the fungus penetrates and decomposes the wood.

Have pores rather than gills through which spores are realesed.

Term
What are lichens?
Definition

A composition of a fungus and either a green alga or cyanobacterium living together in a symbiotic relationship.

 

Term

What are Fruticose Lichens?

What do they look like?

Definition

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Lichens that Grow on living or dead trees.

Look like little shrubs.

Term

What are Foliose Lichens?

What do They look like?

Definition

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Lichens found on fallen logs or tree trunks.

Look like Leaves

Term
What are Crustose Lichens?
Definition

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Thin and crusty lichens that grow tightly appressed to hard surfaces, such as rocks

Term
What is the closest living relative to the land plants?
Definition
The Charophytes.
Term

Identify the structures.

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Definition

1.Archagonia

2.Antheridia

Term
After fertilization what is a zygote enclosed in?
Definition
A sporopollenin wall
Term

In Chara what is the only diploid cell in the life cylce?

What does this cause?

Definition

The zygote.

since the zygote undergoes meosis to form zoospores there is no multicellular sporophyte generation.

Term

What are the bryophytes?

What are their symapomorhies?

Synapomorphies?

Definition

The most primitive land plants.

Symapomorphies: Flagellated sperm, water required for fertilization.

Synapomorphies: alternantion of generations, walled spores in sporangia, multicellular gametangia, an embryo,apical meristems, a cuticle.

Term
What is the basic lifecycle?
Definition
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Term
What is the life cycle of the Bryophytes?
Definition
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Term
What is the dominant generation in the bryophytes?
Definition
The female gametophyte
Term
Why are The characteristics of organisms in the phylum level clade hapatophyta.
Definition
Dominant gametophyte, Have a ribbon shaped thallus. have stalked gametophores called archegoniophores and anthridiophores.
Term
What does an archegoniophore look like?
Definition

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like a tiny palm tree

Term
What does an anthridiophore look like?
Definition

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Term
What are the major Synapomorphies of the seedless vascular plants?
Definition

Vacular tissue xylem and phloem.

Branched sporophytes with true stems,leaves,and roots

Term
What are the two clades in the seedless vascular plants?
Definition
Lycophyta and Pterophyta
Term
What are the symapomorphies for the seedless vascular plants?
Definition
Flagellated sperm cells and spores
Term
What are the major synapomorphies of the seedless vascular plants?
Definition

All have a dominant sporophyte generation.

all have a reduced gametophyte.

vascular tissue with lignified cells.

Have branched sporophytes with true roots leaves and stems

Term
What are microphylls?
Definition
leaves with a single strand of vascular tissue
Term
What are megaphylls?
Definition
Highly branched vascular system in leaves
Term
What are sporophylls?
Definition
modified leaves that bear sporangia
Term
What is a strobilus?
Definition
A cone-like sporophyll
Term

What is lycopodium?

Name the structures.[image]

 

Definition

Club moss in th group lycophyta that has spirally arranged microphylls and a strobilus at the tip of the stem that are homosporous.

1.sporophyll

2.sporangium

3.spores

Term

What are selaginella?

Name the structures?

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Definition

A spikemoss in the group lychopyta that has microphylls in four vertical ranks and are heterosporous.

1.microsporangium with microspores

2.microsporophyll

3.megasporophyll

4.megasporangium with megaspores

Term
What is the dominant generation in the ferns?
Definition
The sporophyte generation.
Term
What type of leaves do ferns have?
Definition
Megaphylls
Term
What type of roots do ferns have?
Definition
Rhizomes
Term
What is a sorus?
Definition
A cluster of sporangia under a frond often covered with a protective flap of tissue
Term
Are ferns homosporous or heterosporous?
Definition
Homosporous
Term

Name the structures.

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Definition

1. Archegonia

2.Anthridia

3.Sperm

4. Eggs

Term
What are the shared derrived traits of the Seedless vascular plant?
Definition

Dominant sporophyte generation

a reduced gametophyte

vascular tissue w/ lignigied cells

are microphylls or megaphylls

have sporophylls

Term
What is the dominant generation in both the gymnosperms and angiosperms?
Definition
The sporophyte generation
Term
What is significant about the gametophytes in Gymnosperms and Angiosperms?
Definition
The gametophyte is very reduced, and are protected by the sporophyte as they develop.
Term
What is the male gametophyte?
Definition
A pollen grain.
Term
What are Gymnosperms?
Definition
Plants that form seeds on the surface of modified leaves called megasporophylls
Term
What is a strobilli?
Definition
Sporophylls that are aggregated into a cone structure.
Term
What are the key morphological characterstic of organisms in the clade coniferophyta?
Definition
Are usually evergreens with needle-like or scale-like leaves.
Term

Identify the structures.

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Definition

1.micrsporophyll

2.microsporangium

3.microspores

Term

What do megastrobili look like during the first spring ?

What takes place at this stage?

Definition

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Pollination takes place at this stage

 

Term

Identify the structures.

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Definition

1. Megaspore

2.megaSporophyll

3. Ovule

Term

Identify the structure of the Ovule.

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Definition

1. Micropyle

2. Integument

3.archegonium

4.Ovule

5.

Term
What happens and by what process does the megaspore mother cell divide?
Definition
By meosis the megaspore mother cell divides producing 4 mega spores in which 3 disentigrate and the 4th becomes the female gametophyte.
Term
What happens during the second year inside a megastrobilli?
Definition

Each pollen grain has been held within an ovule  and forms a pollen tube and produces two sperm, one of which fertilizes the egg. after ferilization the zygote develops into an embryo

 

Term
After the fertilization of a zygote and the development of an embryo what does each megasporophyll bear?
Definition
Two seeds each of which has a wing for wind dispersal
Term
What is the second surviving lineage of the seed plants?
Definition
Phylum-level clade anthophyta.(Angiosperms or flowering plants)
Term
What are the derived traits of the angiosperms?
Definition
Flowers and fruits
Term
What is the perianth?
Definition
The sepals and petals collectively
Term
What are the stamens?
Definition
The male parts of the flower composed of the filament and the anther.
Term
Where are pollen grains produced in angiosperms?
Definition
The anther
Term
What is a carpel?
Definition
A megasporophyll, a modified leaf that bears ovules
Term
What is a complete flower?
Definition
A flower that has all the plant parts
Term
What are daisy mum and sunflower composed of?
Definition
Two types of flowers ray flowers and disk flowers.
Term
What is the endosperm?
Definition
Nutritive tissue for the developing embryo.
Term
What is the function of the cotyledon?
Definition
To provide food for the seedling during early growth.
Term
What is the epicotyl?
Definition
The part of the stem above the point of attatchment of the cotyledons
Term
What is the Hypocotyl?
Definition
The stem below the point of attatchment of the cotyledons
Term
What is a coleoptile?
Definition
A protective sheath for the young stem
Term
What is the radicle?
Definition
Embronic root
Term
What is the coleorhiza?
Definition
Protective sheath for the radicle
Term
What is a fruit?
Definition
The plant organ derived from the ovary of a flower and which contains seeds.
Term
What are vegetables?
Definition
Food that comes from leaves stems or roots
Term
What are simple fruits?
Definition

Fruits that develop form a single ovary.

 

Term
What are aggregate fruits?
Definition
Fruits derived from several to many ripened ovaries of a single flower
Term
What are accessory fruits?
Definition
Fruits that incorporate nearby tissues of other floral parts such as sepals or the receptacle
Term
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Definition

1.Anther

2. Filament

3. Stamen

4. Stigma

5. Style

6.Ovary

7.Carpels

8. Sepals

9.Ovules

10. Petals

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