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One thing that E. Coli and other bacteria have in common with eukaryotes is the presence of _________.
Ribosomes
Prokaryotes are __________.
Unicellular
Some have ________ forms.
Colonial
Prokaryotes range in size from ________ um.
1-5
Prokaryotes have ___________ organelles.
no membrane-bound
Prokaryotes have ____________ chromosomes.
Circular
Maintains cell shape, provides physical protection, prevents cell from bursting in a hypotonic environment.
Cell wall
Prokaryotic cell walls are composed of ____________. May also have an outer _____________ membrane.
Peptidoglycan; Phospholipid
May cover the cell wall of many prokaryotes.
Capsule
A sticky layer of polysaccharide or protein.
Capsule
__________ and _________ allow prokaryotes to stick to their substrate or other individuals in a colony.
Fimbriae; pilli
Move by means of a flagella.
Motile bacteria
Motile bacteria is structurally different from _____________ flagella.
Eukaryptic
In a heterogeneous environment, bacteria exhibit _________.
Taxis
An ability to move toward or away from certain simuli.
Taxis
Positive ________ is the ability to move toward a chemical stimulus.
Chemotaxis
Prokaryotes _________ have membrane-bound organelles.
Do not
Some prokaryotes have ________ membranes that perform metabolic functions.
Specialized
Prokaryotic chromosome are _______ DNA found in the nucleoid region; not within the _________.
Circular; nucleus
Small circular DNA rings.
Plasmids
Prokaryotes reproduce quickly by this.
Binary fission
Prokaryotes divide every ______ hours.
1-3
Prokaryotes are a form of ________ reproduction, which produces genetically identical daughter cells.
Asexual
Transfer of genetic material between two bacteria.
Bacterial conjugation
Bacterial conjugation not necessarily between the same species.
Horizontal gene transfer
These are usually transferred from donor through a sex pilus.
Plasmids
Groups of staphylococci (cocci) look ________.
Spherical
Cell-surface structures
Cell-surface structures
Prokaryotic cells have a variety of shapes.
Most common:
Spheres (-cocci)
Rods (-bacilli)
Spirals (-spirilli)
Bacterial capsule
Bacterial capsule
Prokaryotic fimbriae
Prokaryotic fimbriae
Motile bacteria
Motile bacteria
Internal organization
Internal organization
Concept 27.2:
A great diversity of nutritional and metabolic adaptations have evolved in prokaryotes.
Organism that obtain energy from light.
Phototrophs
Organisms that obtain energy from chemicals.
Chemotrophs
Organisms that need only the inorganic compound CO2 as a carbon source.
Autotrophs
Organisms that need at least one organic compound (e.g. Glucose) to make other organic compounds.
Heterotrophs
An autotrophic organism might _________?
Engage in chemosynthesis
Chemosynthesis __________?
Enables the synthesis of organic molecules using energy from inorganic molecules
Prokaryotic _________ can vary with respect to oxygen availability.
Metabolism
Require oxygen.
Obligate aerobes
Can survive with or without oxygen.
Facultative anaerobes
Are poisoned by oxygen.
Obligate anaerobes
In __________ respiration, substance other than oxygen, act as electron acceptors (eg, NO3-, SO4 2-).
Anaerobic
Some prokaryotes can metabolize ________.
Nitrogen
In _____________, bacteria convert N2 (nitrogen gas) to NH3 (ammonia).
Nitrogen fixation
Cooperation between prokaryotes, allows them to use resources they could not us individually.
Metabolic cooperation
The cyanobacterium Anabaena:
Photosynthetic cells, nitrogen-fixing cells: Heterocytes.
Which types of bacteria can live in the presence of oxygen?
Only obligate aerobes and facultative fermentation.
Major nutritional modes of prokaryotes.
Major nutritional modes of prokaryotes.
Cyanobacterium: Anabaena
Cyanobacterium: Anabaena
Concept 27.3:
Molecular systematic is illuminating prokaryotic phylogeny
Based prokaryotic taxonomy on phenotypic criteria.
Systematists
Applying molecular systematics to the investigation of prokaryotic phylogeny:
1. Has led to a phylogenetic classification of prokaryotes.

2. Allows systematists to identify major new clades.
Domain Bacteria:
-Proteobacteria
-Chlamydias
-Spirochetes
-Gram-positive bacteria
-Cyanobacteria
________ share traits with both bacteria and eukaryote.
Archaea
Archaeans are often found in _______ environments.
Extreme
Thrive in very hot environments.
Thermophiles
Thrive under high pressure.
Barophiles
Live in anoxic environments (eg, swamps and marshes), produce methane as a waste product.
Mathanogens
Live in high saline environments.
Halophiles
Which type of bacteria would you most likely find in very salty water?
Extreme halophiles
A tenative phylogeny
A tenative phylogeny
Domain Bacteria
Domain Bacteria
Concept 27.4:
Prokaryotes play crucial roles in the biosphere.
Chemical recycling: _______ play a major role in recycling chemical elements between the living and nonliving environment.
Prokaryotes
Are decomposers.
Chemoheterotrophs
Chemoheterotrophs:
break down corposes, dead vegetation, and waste products.
___________ prokaryotes add usable nitrogen to the environment.
Nitrogen-fixing
Many prokaryotes live in ___________ or _________ relationships with other organisms.
Multicellular; commensalistic
Symbiotic relationships
Symbiotic relationships
Which best describes most membranes of the kingdom Protista?
They are single-celled and eukaryotic.
_______ are more diverse than all other eukaryotes.
Protists
Protists are mostly ________, but some have colonial and multicellular forms.
Unicellular
Protists reproduce _________.
Asexually and sexually
Contain chloroplast, photosynthesize.
Photoautotrophs - protists
Absorb organic molecules or ingest larger particlees.
Heterotrophs - protists
Combine photosynthesis and heterotrophic nutrition.
Mixotrophs - protists
Endosymbosis in Eukaryotic Evolution
-Much protist diversity has its origin in endosymbiosis.
-Plastid-bearing lineage evolved into red and green algae.
-Both underwent secondary endosymbiosis.
Which would be a key identifying characteristic of an organelle that has undergone secondary endosymbiosis?
Four plasma membranes
Protists are an extremely diverse assortment of eukaryotes. Reproduces sexually and sexually.
Protists are an extremely diverse assortment of eukaryotes.
Endosymbiosis in Eukaryotic Evolution
Endosymbiosis in Eukaryotic Evolution
A Tentative Phylogeny of Eukaryotes.
A Tentative Phylogeny of Eukaryotes.
Are adapted to anaerobic environments, lack plastids, and have mitochondria that lack DNA, an electron transport chain, or citric acid cycle enzymes.
Diplamonads and parabosalids
Have 2 nuclei and multiple flagella.
Diplomonads (eg, Giardia interestinalis)
Move by means of a flagella and an undulating membrane.
Parabasalids (eg, Trichemnoas vaginalis)
Diplomonads and Parabasalids
Diplomonads and Parabasalids
Concept 28.3:
Euglenozoans have flagella with a unique, internal structure.
Includes heterotrophs, photosynthetic autotrophs, and parasites.
Euglenozoa
Single, large mitochondrion containing an organized mass of DNA.
Kinetoplast
Includes free-living consumers in freshwater, marine, and moist terrestrial habitats.
Kinetoplastids
Have one or two flagella that emerge from a pocket at one end of the cell.
Euglenids
Euglenids stores the glucose polymer _________.
Paramylan
________ are diverse groups of aquatic photoautorophs and heterotrophs.
Dinoflagellates
Abundant components of marine and freshwater.
Phytoplankton
Rapid growth of some __________ is responsible for "red tides" which can be toxic to humans.
Dinoflagellates
Some dinoflagellates are ___________.
Bioluminescent
Parasites of animals, some causes diseases (plasmodium causes malaria).
Apicomplexans
Apex of apicomplexans contains a complex of organelles for _________ host cells and tissues.
Penetrating
Named for their use of cilia to move and feed.
Ciliates
Ciliates have ___ nuclei.
2
The two nuclei of ciliates are:
Macronucleus: controls everyday functions.

Micronucleus: used in conjugation
The ________ nuclei function during conjugation.
Micro
A sexual process that produces genetic variation and is separate from reproduction, which generally occurs by binary fission.
Conjugation
Sexual reproduction in ciliates involves __________?
The exchange of haploid micronuclei between two individuals.
Dinoflagellates, apicomplexans, and ciliates are place in the ALveolata because they all:
Have membrane-bound sacs under their plasma membranes.
Main feature is a spiral or crystalline rod of unknown function inside their flagella.
Main feature is a spiral or crystalline rod of unknown function inside their flagella.
Parasite Trypanosome - causes African sleeping sickness.
Parasite Trypanosome - causes African sleeping sickness.
Euglenids: some are mixotrophic.
Euglenids: some are mixotrophic.
Alveolates have sacs beneath the plasma membrane.
Alveolates have sacs beneath the plasma membrane.
Dinoflagellates: Two flagella make hem spin as they move through the water.
Dinoflagellates: Two flagella make hem spin as they move through the water.
Apicoplast-nonphotosynthetic plastid.
Apicoplast-nonphotosynthetic plastid.
Ciliates
Ciliates
Concept 28.5:
Stramenophiles have "hairy" and smooth flagella
Previously considered fungi, based on morphology.
Oomycetes
Filaments that faciliate nutrient uptake.
Hyphae (oomycetes)
Cause late blight of potatoes (brought about the Irish potato famine).
Phytophthora infestans (oomycetes)
________ are unicellular algae (photoautotrophs).
Diatoms
Diatoms are major components of _______.
Phytoplankton
Diatomaceous earth
Accumulated diatom tests in marine sediments; used in toothpastes and filter media.
Golden Algae are also known as _____________.
Chrysophytes
Named for their color which results from their yellow and brown carotinoids.
Golden Algae
Brown algae are also known as ___________.
Phaeophytes
Largest and most complex algae; all multicellular and mostly marine; seaweeds.
Brown algae
A variety of life cycles have evolved among __________ algae.
Multicellular
Alteration of generations in life cycle include multicellular ______ and _______.
Haploid; diploid
Alternation of generation implies a diploid, spore-producing phase alternating with a(n) ____________________.
Haploid gamete producing phase
Stramenophiles: include several groups of heterotrophs as well as certain groups of algae.
Stramenophiles: include several groups of heterotrophs as well as certain groups of algae.
Water Mold Life Cycle
Water Mold Life Cycle
Freshwater Diatom
Diatom Diversity
Photoautotrophs with some mixotrophs; mostly unicellular, but some colonial species; Dinobryan.
Photoautotrophs with some mixotrophs; mostly unicellular, but some colonial species; Dinobryan.
Photoautotrophs with some mixotrophs; mostly unicellular, but some colonial species; Dinobryan.
Photoautotrophs with some mixotrophs; mostly unicellular, but some colonial species; Dinobryan.
Brown Algae - seaweeds
Brown Algae - seaweeds
Alternation of Generations.
Alternation of Generations.
Concept 28.6:
Cercozoans and radiolarians have threadlike psudopodia.
_________ is a newly recognized clade. Many were classified as amoebas in the past.
Cercozoa
Are distinguished from the amoebas by their threadlike pseudophodia.
Cercozoans and radiolarians
Named for their porous, generally multichambered tests made of calcium carbonate.
Foraminiferans
Extend through pores in the test.
Pseudopodia
________ form an extensive fossil record.
Foram tests
Marine protists with silica tests.
Radiolarians
Radiolarians' pseudopodia are known as ________.
Axopodia
Radiolarians are used to ________ and ________ microorganisms.
Capture; phagocytose
Includes gymnameobas, entamoebas, and slime molds.
Amoebozoans: have lobe-shaped pseudopodia
Have lobe-shaped rather than threadlike pseudopodia; common amoebazoans in soil as well as freshwater and marine environments; most are heterotrophic.
Gymnameobas.
Parasite of vertebrates and some invertebrates.
Entamoebas
Cause amoebic dysentery in humans.
Entamoebas histolytica
Slime molds - once thought to be fungi.
Mycetozoans
Two main branches of slime molds:
Plasmodial slime molds

Cellular slime molds
Plasmodial slime molds form a mass called _________.
Plasmodium
Plasmodium is:
Undivided by membranes and contains many diploid nuclei.

Extends pseudopodia through decomposing matter, engulfing food by phagocytosis.
Cellular slime molds form _____________.
Multicellular aggregates
Cellular slime molds:
Cell separated by their membranes.
Is an experimental model for studying the evolution of multicellularity.
Dictyostellium discoideum
Foraminiferans
Foraminiferans
Radiolarians
Radiolarians
Gymnamoebas
Gymnamoebas
Plasmodial Slime Molds Life Cycle
Plasmodial Slime Molds Life Cycle
Cellular Slime Molds
Cellular Slime Molds
Concept 28.8:
Red algae and green algae are the closest relatives of land plants
Red algae are reddish in color due to accessory pigment called _________.
Phycoerythrinn
Red algae are usually ________.
Multicellular and abundant in coastal waters of the tropics.
The red algae, _________, is eaten as crispy sheets or used to wrap sushi.
Paraphyra
Named for their green chloroplasts; chlorophyll a and b main pigments.
Green algae
Green algae is divided into two main groups:
Chlorophytes and Charophytes
________ live in freshwater, also in marine habitats, damp soils, and as symbionts with lichen.
Chlorophytes
A single-celled chlorophyte.
Chlamydomonas
Biologists believe that ________ gave rise to land plants, because both groups of organisms contain chlorophyll's a and b.
Green algae
Chlorophyte life cycle
Chlorophyte life cycle
The ancestors of terrestrial plants are considered to be?
Charophyceans
Concept 29.1:
Land plants evolved from green algae
Have been identified as the closest relatives of land plants.
Charophyceans
Four key traits land plants share with charophyceans:
1. Rose-shaped complexes for cellulose synthesis.

2. Peroxisome enzymes

3. Structure of flagellated sperm

4. Formation of phragmatoplasts
Comparisons of nuclear and chloroplast genes point to close relationship between __________ and ___________.
Charophyceans; land plants
Durable ____________ found in charaophycean and lands plants prevents spores from dying out.
Polymer sporopollenin
This provides great opportunity for adaptive radiation:
1. Sunlight unfiltered by water and plankton

2. Abundance of CO2

3. Nutrient-rich soil

4. Few herbivores and pathogens
Systematists are currently debating the boundaries of this kingdom.
Plant
Some want to include some or all of the _______ algae.
Green
Concept 29.2:
Land plant possesses a set of derived terrestrial adaptations
Five key traits appear in nearly all land plants, but are absent in the charophyceans:
1. Apical meristem

2. Alternation of generations

3. Walled spores produced in sporgania

4. Multicellular gametangia

5. Multicellular dependent embryos
Fossil evidence indicates that plants were on land at least ____________ and have given rise to a vast diversity of plants.
475 MYA
Charophyceans have been identified as the closest relatives of land plants.
Charophyceans have been identified as the closest relatives of land plants.
Rosette cellulose synthesizing complex
Rosette cellulose synthesizing complex
The origin and diversification of plants
The origin and diversification of plants
Concept 29.3:
The life cycles of mosses and other bryophytes are dominated by the gametophyte stage.
Are represented today by three phyla of small herbaceous (nonwoody) plants.
Bryophytes
Three phyla of Bryophytes are:
1. Liverworts, Phylum Hepatophyta

2. Hornworts, Phylum Anthocerophyta

3. Mosses, Phylum Bryophyta
In all three bryophyte phyla, these are the dominant stage of the life cycle.
Gametophytes
Bryophyte Gametophytes produce flagellated sperm in _______ and ova in _________. Also form ground hugging carpets and at most are only a few cells thick.
Antherida; archegonia
Grow out of archegonia, consists of a foot, a seta, and a sporangium. Hornwort and moss sporophytes have stomata.
Bryophyte Sporophytes
Which statement is correct regarding the bryophytes?
Archegonia and antheridia are haploid structures and that produce reproductive cells
Bryophyte Diversity: Figures of Hornworts and Liverworts
Bryophyte Diversity: Figures of Hornworts and Liverworts
Moss Life Cycle
Consult book
Concept 29.4:
Ferns and other seedless vascular plants formed the first forests
Origins of Vascular Plants:
1. Fossils of the forerunners of vascular plants date back to about 420 MYA.

2. Had independent branching of sporophytes.

3. Lacked other derived traits of vascular plants.
Sporophytes of seedless vascular plants are the ________ generation.
Larger
The ________ are tiny plants that grow on or below the soil surface.
Gametophytes
Classification of Seedless Vascular Plants: Two phyla:
Lycophyta: club mosses, spike mosses, and quillworts

Pterophyta: ferns, horsetails, and whisk ferns
Vascular plants have 2 types of vascular tissue:
Xylem: conducts most of the water and mineral

Phloem: distributes sugars, amino acids, and other organic products
Roots of vascular plants serves to:
1. Anchor vascular plants
2. Absorb water and nutrients from the soil
Leaves of vascular plants serves to:
Increase surface area for capturing more sunlight
Ancestors of modern ______, _______, and _____ formed the first forests during the ______ period.
lycophytes, horsetails, and ferns during the Carbiniferous period.
Which is a land plant that produces flagellated sperm and has a sporophyte-dominated life cycle?
Pterophyta
The bryophytes have independent ________ as well as attached dependent __________.
Gametophytes, sporophytes
Coal consists primarily of compressed remains of the _____ that dominated Carboniferous swamp forests.
Seedless vascular plants
Origins of Vascular plants
Consult book
Fern Life Cycle
Consult book.
Concept 30.1:
The reduced gametophytes of seed plants are protected in ovules and pollen grains.
Characteristics common to all seed plants:
1. Seeds
2. Reduced gametophytes
3. Heterospory
4. Ovules
5. Pollen
Develop within the walls of spores retained within tissues of the parent sporophyte and is no longer dependent on water for fertilization.
Gametophytes of seed plants
Heterospory: The rule among seed plants. Seed plants evolved from plants that had _______ , the female symbol gametophytes and _______, the male symbol.
Megasporangia; Micrsporangia
Consists of a megasporangium, megaspore, and protective integuments.
Ovule
Develop into pollen grains and contains male gametophytes.
Microspores
Can be dispersed by air or animals, eliminates the water requirement for fertilization.
Pollen
If a pollen grain ________, it gives rise to a pollen tube that discharges two sperm into the female gametophyte within the ovule.
Germinates
Develops from the whole ovule, includes sporophyte embryo, food supply, protective coat.
A seed
Which does not apply to gymnosperms or angiosperms?

-Vascular tissues
-Diploid dominance
-Single spore type
-Cuticle with stomata
Single spore type
Gametophyte/Sporophyte relationships
Gametophyte/Sporophyte relationships
Ovules and production of Eggs
Ovules and production of Eggs
Concept 30.2:
Gymosperms bear "naked seeds" typically on cones
Fossils reveal that the late Devorian plants called ________ had some characteristics of seed plants.
Progymnosperms
Gymnosperms dominated ________ terrestrial ecosystems and were also known as the "Age of Cycads".
Mesozoic
Key features of the gymnosperm life cycle include:
1. Dominance of the sporophyte generation

2. The role of pollen in transferring sperm to ovules (no water is required)

3. The development of seed form fertilized ovules.
How many generations are represented in the seed of a gymnosperm?
3
Coat consists primarily of compressed remains of the ________ that dominated Carboniferous swamp forests.
Seedless, vascular plants
Gymnosperms include:
Gymnosperms include:
Pine Life Cycle
Pine Life Cycle
Concept 30.3:
The reproductive adaptations of angiosperms include flowers and fruits.
Also known as flowering plants or covered seeds; also the most widespread and diverse of all plants (250,00 species, 90% of all extant plant species).
Angiosperms
Angiosperms' derived traits are:
The reproductive structures called flowers and fruits.
Gymnosperms and angiosperms have the following traits in common except _________.

-seeds
-pollen
-vascular tissue
-ovaries
-ovules
Ovaries
Flowers have ______ structure in angiosperms for sexual reproduction.
Specialized
Specialized shoot with modified leaves:
Sepals: enclose the flower

Petals: brightly colored, attract pollinators

Stamen: produce pollen

Carpel: produce ovules
Typically consist of a mature ovary.
Fruits
Matures after fertilization of ovules in fruits, and can be carried by wind, water, or animals, enhancing dispersas.
Ovary
________ occurs when a pollen tube discharges two sperm into the female gametophyte within an ovule.
Double fertilization
First sperm in double fertilization:
Fertilizes the egg
Second sperm in double fertilization:
Combines with two nuclei in the center cell of the female gametophyte and initiates development of endosperm.
__________ nourishes the developing embryo.
Endosperm
Angiosperms originated at least _______ and diversified during the late Mesozoic.
140 MYA
__________ old fossils show some derived traits found in modern angiosperms.
125 MYA
"In and out of water hypothesis"
Common ancestors of angiosperms was aquatic plant, which reinvaded terrestrial habitats.
Pollen-producing and ovule-producing structures were separate on early flowering plants.
Evo-Devo hypothesis
________ in developmental genes brought them together in one structure - the flower.
Mutation
Flower is mostly _____.
Male
Concept 30.4:
Human welfare depends greatly on seed plants
No groups is more important to human survival as the ___________.
Seed plants
We depend on seeds for:
Food, wood, and many medicines.
With respect to angiosperms, which of the following is incorrectly paired with its chromosome count?

-Egg cell - n
-Megaspore - 2n
-Microsporocyte - 2n
-Endosperm - 3n
Megaspore - 2n
Pollen-producing and ovule-producing structures were separate on early flowering plants.
Evo-Devo hypothesis
________ in developmental genes brought them together in one structure - the flower.
Mutation
Flower is mostly _____.
Male
Concept 30.4:
Human welfare depends greatly on seed plants
No groups is more important to human survival as the ___________.
Seed plants
We depend on seeds for:
Food, wood, and many medicines.
With respect to angiosperms, which of the following is incorrectly paired with its chromosome count?

-Egg cell - n
-Megaspore - 2n
-Microsporocyte - 2n
-Endosperm - 3n
Megaspore - 2n
Flowers
Flowers
Fruits
Fruits
Angiosperm Life Cycle
Angiosperm Life Cycle
Angiosperm Diversity
Angiosperm Diversity
Human welfare depends greatly on seed plants.
Human welfare depends greatly on seed plants.
Concept 31.1:
Fungi are heterotrophs that feed by absorption.
Fungi are ______, but do not ingest their food.
Heterotrophs
Fungi secrete ________ into their surrounding that break down complex molecules and absorb smaller organic molecules.
Exoenzymes
Fungi exhibit diverse lifestyles:
Decomposers known as saprotrophs

Parasite

Mutualistic symbionts
In seed bearing plants, microspores develop into __________.
Pollen grains
Which of the following is not a conifer?

-pine
-fir
-cedar
-ginko
Ginkgo
Three of the four answers below are seed producers. Select the exception.

-Ferns
-Conifers
-Dicots
-Ginkos
Ferns
The morphology of multicellular fungi enhances _______ of nutrients.
Absorption
Fungi consists of ______ , which are networks of branched hyphae.
Mycelia
Most fungi have cell walls made of _____.
Chitin
Some fungi have hyphae divided into cells by _______, with pore allowing cell-to-cell movement of materials.
Septa
________ fungi lack septa.
Coencocytic
Which of the following is a "job" not performed by any fungi?

-Decomposer
-Parasite
-Predator
-Producer
Producer
Some fungi have ______ that allow them to capture animals and/or penetrate the tissues of their hosts.
Hyphae
________ are mutualisms between fungi and plant host.
Mycorrhizae
Mycorrhizae that surrounds root cells.
Ectomcorrhizae
Mycorrhizae that extends hyphae through root-cell wall.
Endomycorrhizae
Concept 31.2:
Fungi produces spores through sexual or asexual life cycles
The sexual life cycle involves:
Cell fusion - plasmogamy

Nuclear fission - Karyogamy
__________ is between plasmogamy and karyogamy.
Heterokaryotic stage
Cells have ________ nuclei from two parents.
Haploid
The diploid phase following ________ is short-lived and undergoes meiosis, producing haploid spores.
Karyogamy
Many fungi, such as molds, produce spores _________ on conidia.
Asexually
Single-celled ______ are produced by buds.
Yeasts
Molds and yeasts with no known sexual stage are classified as ________, or imperfect fungi.
Deuteromycetes
Concept 31.3:
Fungi descended from an aquatic, single-celled, flagellated protest.
Systamatists now recognize _________ and ________ as sister kingdoms.
Fungi and Animalia
Molecular evidence supports the hypothesis that:
Fungi and animals diverged from a common ancestor that was unicellular and bore flagella.
The oldest undisputed fossils of fungi are about ___________ old.
460 MY
_____ were among the earliest colonizers of land probably as symbionts with early land plants.
Fungi
Concept 31.4:
Fungi have radiated into a diverse set of Lineages.
Fungi classified in the phylum ______________.
Chytridiomycot
Chytrids are found in ___________ and ____________ habitats.
Freshwater; terrestrial
Chytrids can be:
Saprobic or parasitic
Chytrids are unique in having flagellated spores called __________.
Zoospores
Chytrids: once thought that all chytrids were ancestral group to other fungi.

Fungi lost flagella once.

Molecular evidence suggests some chytrids were closely related to:
Zygomycetes
Fungi, Zygomycetes, are found in the phylum ______________.
Zymgomycota
Zymgomycota includes:
Molds, parasites, and commensal symbionts
Zymgomycota are named for their sexaully produced:
Zygosporangia
Develop a rough, thick coat that can withstand harsh conditions for months.
Zygosporangia
When conditions improve, Zygosporangia undergo __________ then meiosis and produce ______________.
Karyogamy; Sporangium
Fungi, Glomeromycetes, are found in the phylum:
Glomeromycota
Glomeromycota were once considered __________, now classified in a separate phylum.
Czygomycetes
About 90% of all plants have mutualistic relationship with:
Glomeromycetes
Reproduce asexually by producing enormous numbers of spores called conidia.
Asomycetes
Phylum __________ also known as club fungi.
Basidiomycoa
Basidiomycetes includes:
mushrooms and shelf fungi
Basidiomycetes defined by clublike structure called a ___________.
Basidium
________ is usually long-lived and dikaryotice; can send up mushrooms in just a few hours.
Mycelium
Your parents are coming to visit and you immediately run to the pantry to throw away the loaf of bread with the black fuzzy stuff on it. What type of phylum of fungi did you just trash?
Zygomycota
Concept 31.5:
Fungi have a powerful impact on ecosystem.
Fungi are well-adapted ________ of organic material; breaks down dead material, recycles chemical elements between living an nonliving portion of ecosystems.
Decomposers
Form symbiotic relationships with plants and animals.
Fungi
Produces sugar - mycorrhizae.
Plant
Mutualism between fungi and plant hose increase ___________ and effects on growth of plants.
Productivity
Some fungi help animals break down plant materal. Some ants and termites raise fungi in "_______".
Farms
Symbiotic association between photosynthetic microorganisms and a fungus; very hardy organisms that can occupy harsh environments.
Lichens
Three growth forms of Lichens:
1. Fructose - branching
2. Foliose - leaf-like
3. Crustose - crust-like
The fungal symbiont, Lichen, is most often an ___________.
Ascomycete
Single-celled green algae or _________ are the photosynthetic symbiont.
Cyanobacteria
Lichens have asexual reproduction by fragmentation or release of _________.
Soredi
Septate hyphae and coenocytic hyphae
Septate hyphae and coenocytic hyphae
Septate hyphae and coenocytic hyphae
Septate hyphae and coenocytic hyphae
Specialized hyphae - Mycorrhizae (Ectomycorrhiza and Endomycorrhizae)
Specialized hyphae - Mycorrhizae (Ectomycorrhiza and Endomycorrhizae)
Generalized Fungi Life Cycle
Generalized Fungi Life Cycle
Asexual Reproduction
Asexual Reproduction
Chytrids
Chytrids
Chytrids - Zygomycetes
Chytrids - Zygomycetes
Life Cycle of Rhizopus Stolonifer
Life Cycle of Rhizopus Stolonifer
Ascomycete Life Cycle
Ascomycete Life Cycle
Basidiomycete Life Cycle
Basidiomycete Life Cycle
Mycorrhizae
Mycorrhizae
Lichens Growth Forms:

1. Fructose - branching
2. Foliose - leaf-like
3. Crustose - crust-like
Consult book for pictures
Figure 31.23
Lichens
Consult book for picture.
Figure 31.24
Which taxonomic group containing eukaryotic organisms is thought to be directly ancestral to the plant kingdom?
Green algae
Which process results in genetic recombination, but is separate from the process wherein the population size of paramecium increases?
Conjugation
Though plants, fungi, and prokaryotes all have cell walls, we classify them under different taxonomic units. Which of the observations below comes closest to explaining the basis for placing these organisms in different taxa?
Their cell walls are constructed from very different biochemicals.
Thread-like pseudopods that can perform phagocytosis are generally characteristic of which group?
cercozoans
In a practice known as crop rotation, farmers alternate a crop of legumes (plants whose roots bear nodules containing Rhizobium) with a crop of nonlegumes. What is the benefit of this practice?
Rhizobium fixes nitrogen, and the fixed nitrogen will fertilize the soil.
A mixotroph loses its plastids yet continues to survive. Which of the following most likely accounts for its continued survival?
It engulfs organic material by phagocytosis.
Which of the following statements is correct about gram-negative bacteria?
They often possess an outer membrane containing toxic lipopolysaccharides.
Modern mitochondria are the descendants of what were once free-living alpha proteobacteria. Insofar as mitochondria become inactive during periods of oxygen debt, what is probably true of their alpha proteobacterial ancestors?
They were obligate aerobes and heterotrophs.
You are given an unknown organism to identify. It is unicellular and heterotrophic. It is motile, using many short extensions of the cytoplasm, each featuring the 9+2 pattern. It has well-developed organelles and two nuclei, one large and one small. This organism is most likely to be a member of which group?
ciliates
A biologist discovers an alga that is marine, multicellular, and lives at a depth reached only by blue light. This alga probably belongs to which group?
red algae
Which group(s) within the Alveolata include(s) members that are important in ocean food webs, cause(s) red tides that kill many fish, and may even be carnivorous?
dinoflagellates
The typical prokaryotic flagellum features
a complex motor embedded in the cell wall and plasma membrane.
The following are all true about the life cycle of mosses except
gametes are directly produced by meiosis.
A biology student hiking in a northern forest happens upon an erect, 15-cm-tall plant that bears a pinecone-like structure at its tallest point. When disturbed, the cone emits a cloud of brownish dust. A pocket magnifying glass reveals the dust to be composed of tiny spheres with a high oil content.


This student has probably found a(n)
club moss sporophyte.
Double fertilization means that angiosperms
have two sperm nuclei, both of which unite with nuclei of the female gametophyte.
A botanist discovers a new species of land plant with a dominant sporophyte, chlorophylls a and b, and a cell wall made of cellulose. In assigning this plant to a phylum, all of the following would provide useful information except whether or not the plant has
Spores
Which of the following is an ongoing trend in the evolution of land plants?
reduction of the gametophyte phase of the life cycle
Gymnosperms differ from both extinct and extant ferns because they
have pollen
Which of the following is true of seedless vascular plants?
Whole forests were once dominated by large, seedless vascular plants.
Which of the following is characteristic of alternation of generations in land plants?
Meiosis in sporophytes produces haploid spores.
The most recent common ancestor of all land plants was most similar to modern-day members of which group?
Charophycea
Which of the following statements is true of archegonia?
They may temporarily contain sporophyte embryos
Sporophylls can be found in which of the following?
pterophytes
In which of the following does the sporophyte depend on the gametophyte for nutrition?
Mosses
Which of these is most important in making the typical seed more resistant to adverse conditions than the typical spore?
integument(s)
All of the following are characteristic of angiosperms except
free-living gametophytes
The sugar-producing member of a mycorrhiza is a ____________.
Plant
Each basidium will produce how many spores?
Four
Concept 33.1:
Sponges are sessile and have porous body and choanocytes.
The Phylum ________ live in both fresh and marine waters, lack true tissues and organs, and have an asymmetrical body plan.
Porifera
These are suspension feeders.
Sponges
Sponges filter water through their ________.
Bodies
Doughnut-shaped cells that span body wall
Porocytes
Line spongocoel; movement of flagella that sets up water flow.
Choanocytes
Water movement through a sponge would follow what path?
Porocyte > spongocoel > osculum
Concept 33.2:
Cnidarians have radial symmetry, a gastrovascular activity, and cnidocytes
A wide range of sessile and floating forms including jellyfish, corals, and hydras
Cnidarians
Simple __________, radial plan - a body plan is a sac with a central gastrovascular cavity.
Diploblastic
Single opening serves as both a ________ and _______.
Mouth and anus
________ layer between epidermis and endodermis - gastrodermis.
Mesoglea
______ form is generally sessile.
Polyp
This Cnidarian form moves frely in water by passive drifting and contractions of the bell.
Medusa
Unique cells that function in defense and the capture of prey.
Cnidocytes
Stimulus causes Cnidarian cells to evert releasing the _______.
Thread
Most marine, a few freshwater; both polyp and medusa stages in most specis; polyp stage often colonial.
Hydrozoa (Cnidarian)
All marine; polyp stage reduced; free-swiminng; medusa up to 2 m in diameter.
Scyphozoa (Cnidarian)
All marine; box-shaped medusa; complex eyes.
Cubozoa
All marine; medusa stage completely absent; most sessile; many colonial.
Anthozoa
In the life cycle of a typical hydrozoan, which of the following would be most likely to be free-swimming?
Medusa
How many plans through the central axis will divide an organism with radial symmetry into roughly equal parts?
Many
Concept 33.3:
Most animals have a bilateral symmetry
Most animals belong to the _______ clade. Bilateral symmetry = cephalization.
Bilateral
Triploblastic development includes:
Ectoderm - outer layer
Mesoderm - middle layer
Endoderm - inner layer
Flatworms are also known as
Phylum Platyhelminthes
They live in marine, freshwater, and damp terrestrial habitats.
Flatworms
Flatworms are:
Triploblastic development, but acoelomate
Flatworm, most marine, some freshwater, a few terrestrial; predators and scavengers; body surface ciliated.
Turbellaria
Flatworm, marine and freshwater parasites; most infect external surfaces of fishes; life history simply; ciliated larva starts infection on host.
Monogenea (monogeaneans)
Flatworm, parasites, almost always vertebrates; two suckers attach to host; most life cycle include intermediate hosts.
Trematoda (trematodes, also called flukes)
Flatworm, Parasites of vertebrates; scolex attaches to host.
Cestoda (tape worm)
Most free living marine and freshwater worms, light-sensitive eyespots, centralized nerve net with anterior ganglia, and gastrovascular cavity with 2 way pharynx.
Class Turbellarians
Mature flukes live in the blood vessels of the human intestine, blood flukes reproduce sexually in the human host. Fertilized eggs exist in feces of host. Eggs develop in water into ciliated larvae. Larvae infect snails. Asexual reproduction within snail results in another type of motile larva. Larvae penetrate skin and blood vessels of humans.
Class Trematodes
Class cestoda, scolex attaches to host; Proglottids are the reprodutive structures; break off after fertilization.
Tapeworm
Phylum ______ are microscopic animals that inhabit aquatic habitats, smaller than protists; alimentary canal with separate mouth and anus; Pseudocoelomate; reproduce by parthenogenesis.
Rotifera
Which of the following combinations of phyla and characteristics is incorrect?

-Rotifera-parthenogenesis
-Cnidaria-radial symmetry; polyp and medusa body form
-Platyhelminthes-flatworms, gastrovascular cavity
-Porifera-gastrovascular cavity, two tissue layers.
Porifera
Concept 33.4:
Molluscs have a muscular foot, a visceral mass, and a mantle.
Removes metabolic wasts from hemolymph.
Nephridium
Most ________ have an open circulatory system; heart pumps hemolymph through arteries and into sinuses.
Mollusks
Rasp-like feeding organ, scrap and scoops of food items
Radula
Nerve ring around the esophagus and ventral nerve chord.
Nervous system
Also known as chitons; marine mollusks; shell has 8 plates; and food used for locomotion with radula and no true head.
Class Polyplacophora
Class _________ consists of snails and slugs; marine, freshwater, and terrestrial; assymmetrical body usually with a coiled shell and result of torsion rotation of the visceral mall. Foot for locomotion with radula.
Gastropoda
Class ________ consists of clams, mussules, scallops, oysters; live in marine and freshwater.
Bivalvia
Bivalvia's flattened shell with _______ valves; head reduced; paired gills; no radula and mostly suspension feeders.
Two
Class __________ consists of squids, cuttlefish, chambered nautili.
Cephalopoda
Cephalopoda live in ______ habitats. Head surrounded by grasping tentacles, usually with suckers.
Marine
Shell of cephalopoda may be:
external, internal, or absent
Concept 33.5:
Annelids are segmented worms. Annelids are also coelomate.
Anatomy of an Annelid (eg Earthwrom)'s body is divided into _______.
Segments. Each segment has a set of muscles that contract against coelomic fluid (hydrostatic skeleton).
Annelids have a ______ circulatory system with ______ pumping vessels (hearts).
Closed; five
___________ of Annelids are w/ specialized regions.
Alimentary canals
Concept 33.7:
Arthropods are segmented coelomates that have an exoskeleton and jointed appendages.
Two out every three known species of animals are _______.
Arthropods
General Characteristics of Arthropods:
1. Diversity and success is related to their segmented, exoskeleton, and jointed appendages.

2. Early arthropods showed little variation among segments.

3. Trend in arthropod evolution has been fusion of segments and specialization of appendages.

4. Arthropod body is covered by an exoskeleton made of chitin. When an arthropod grows it sheds the exoskeleton by a process called ECDYSIS.

5. Arthropods have an open circulatory system. Hemolymph is circulated into spaces surrounding tissues.

6. Variety of gas exchange organs are gills, tracheal tubes, and book lungs.
________ include spiders, scorpions, ticks, and mites.
Arachnid Anatomy
Body of Arachnid has 2 regions:
Cephalothorax and Abdomen
Cephalothorex has __ pairs of appendages which are:
6; pedipalps, chelicerae, and 4 pairs of walking legs.
Book lungs are used for ________.
Respiration
Subphylum __________ consist of millipedes and centipedes.
Myriapoda
Class __________ has two pairs of legs per segment, and ditritus feeders in leaf litter.
Diplopoda - millipedes
Class _______ has one pair of legs per segment and are carnivores.
Chilopoda - centipedes
Subphylum ________ consists of insects and their relatives; more species rich than all other life forms.
Hexapoda
_____ are characterized by having 3 pairs of walking legs on the thorax, 1 or 2 pairs of wings, and 3 body regions.
Insects
Subphylum ________ are mostly marine and freshwater, biramous appendages, and gills for gas exchange.
Custacea
Three of the four animals listed below possess some type of coelom, select the exception:

-annelids
-arthropods
-molluscs
-platyhelminths
Platyhelminths
Concept 33.8:
Echinoderms and chordates are deuterostomes
_________ may not look like chordates, which includes the vertebrates, but they share a common development plan.
Echinoderms
________ has radial cleavage, coelom develops from archenteron, and mouth forms oppostie of blastospore.
Deuterostomes
Phylum _________ includes echinoderm - spiny skin, slow moving or sessile marine animals, pentaradial symmetry, and unique water-vascular system.
Echinodermata
Mr. Crabs from spongebob is a member of what subphylum?
Crustacea
Squidward Tentacles belongs to what class?
Cephalopoda
Which of the following characteristics is not true of all animal phyla?

-multicellular
-organ systems
-heterotrophic
-diploid
Organ systems
Cnidarians do not have _____.

-tentacles equipped with nematocysts.
-three tissue layers
-radial symmetry
-a gastrovascular cavity.
Three tissue layers
Oval body, eight dorsal plates, grazer on rocky coasts is descriptive of _______.
Polyplacophora
The difference between pseudocoelomates and coelomates is that pseudocoelomates _____, whereas coelomates _____.
have a body cavity partially lined with tissue derived from mesoderm ... have a body cavity completely lined with tissue derived from mesoderm
Mushrooms with gills, typically available in supermarkets, have meiotically produced spores located in or on ________ and belong to the phylum ________.
basidia; Basidiomycota
Consider the following list of animals: giant squid, earthworm, largemouth bass, snail, tapeworm, coral, and starfish. The two that belong to the same phylum are the _____, and their phylum is _____.
giant squid and snail ... Mollusca
The functional significance of porous septa in certain fungal hyphae is most similar to that represented by the ________ of certain animal cells, and by the ________ of certain plant cells.
gap junctions; plasmodesmata
Which characteristic is not true of sponges?
All of the above are characteristics of sponges.
A biologist is trying to classify a new organism on the basis of the following characteristics: fungus-like in appearance, reproduces by conidia, has no apparent sexual phase, and parasitizes woody plants. If asked for advice, to which group would you assign this new species?
Deuteromycota
Which one of the following is not a feature of polychaete worms (phylum Annelida, class Polychaeta) ?
a water vascular system
An active marine predator is found possessing these characteristics: a series of tentacles (modified from the foot) , a highly developed nervous system, and elaborate eyes. To which of the following animal classes does this organism most likely belong?
Cephalopoda
What are the sporangia of bread molds?
asexual structures that produce haploid spores
In fungi, karyogamy does not immediately follow plasmogamy, which
results in heterokaryotic cells.
You are given an organism to identify. It has a fruiting body that contains many structures with eight haploid spores lined up in a row. What kind of a fungus is this?
ascomycete
The choanocyte of a sponge and the nematocyst of a cnidarian both function in _____.
obtaining food
Jellies and corals are members of the same _____, all members of which _____.
phylum ... have special stinging cells on their tentacles
What is the primary role of a mushroom's underground mycelium?
absorbing nutrients
Tapeworms are highly specialized worms that make their living as endoparasites. To which of the following phyla and classes do the tapeworms belong?
phylum Platyhelminthes, class Cestoidea
Lichens are symbiotic associations of fungi and
either cyanobacteria or green algae.
Symmetry is one of the most basic characteristics of animals. The group that has a different symmetry from the other four groups listed here is the _____.
jellies
An unidentified species of animal displays the following characteristics: bilateral symmetry, protostome development, a complete digestive system, an open circulatory system, and distinct body segmentation. To which one of the following animal phyla does this species most likely belong?
Arthropoda
Which of the following is not a characteristic of hyphate fungi (fungi featuring hyphae)?
Their cell walls consist mainly of cellulose microfibrils.
Sponges
Sponges
Cnidarian Body Plans
Cnidarian Body Plans
Cnidarians
Cnidarians
Consult Book 33.7
Cnidarian Diversity
Triploblastic Development
Triploblastic Development
Triploblastic Development
Triploblastic Development
Flatworm Diversity
Flatworm Diversity
Class Turbellarians
Class Turbellarians
Class Trematodes
Blood Fluke Cycle
Tapeworms
Tapeworms
Rotifers
Rotifers
Basic Mollusc Body Plan
Basic Mollusc Body Plan
Class Polyplacophora
Consult book.
Class Gastropoda
Class Gastropoda
Class Bivalvia
Consult book. 33.20 & 33.21
Annelid Diversity
Annelid Diversity
Arthropods
Consult book. 33.28 & 33.39
Four Major Lineages of Arthropods
Four Major Lineages of Arthropods
Arachnid Anatomy
Arachnid Anatomy
Insect Anatomy
Insect Anatomy
Subphylum Crustacea
Subphylum Crustacea
Phylum Echinodermata
Phylum Echinodermata
Echinoderm Diversity
Echinoderm Diversity