Superphylum Viridiplantae

Question 1

What are the common names of Viridiplantae?

Answer 1

Green algae, plant-like “protists”, and bryophytes

Question 2

Synapomorphies of Superphylum Viridiplantae?

Answer 2

The superphylum has chlorophyll a and b

Question 3

List the habitat of Viridiplants?

Answer 3

Fresh water and marine, most motile and free-living, photoautotrophic

Question 4

If including plants, how many species are there? If not including plants?

Answer 4

350,000 species, if not 40,000 species. So plants have about 100,000 species

Question 5

List important Viridiplants

Answer 5

Volvox globator, Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi, Leischmania major, and Giardia lamblia

Question 6

Volvox globator

Answer 6

Colonial, has daughter colonies in it that will be expelled and live freely. Clones of parent.

Question 7

Trypanosoma brucei vector

Answer 7

tsetse fly

Question 8

Trypanosoma cruzi vector

Answer 8

kissing bed bug

Question 9

Leischmania major vector

Answer 9

Sand fly

Question 10

Giardia lamblia vector

Answer 10

drinking still water

Question 11

Trypanosoma brucei disease

Answer 11

sleeping sickness

Question 12

Trypanosoma cruzi disease

Answer 12

Chagas’ disease

Question 13

Leischmania major disease

Answer 13

Leishmaniasis

Question 14

Giardia lamblia disease

Answer 14

Beaver Fever

Question 15

What enters and reproduces in blood?

Answer 15

Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma brucei

Question 16

How would you die from the disease beaver fever?

Answer 16

The Giardia lamblia blocks the ability of the intestine absorption of water by adhering to the sides of the intestine. Usually not fatal though.

Question 17

What attacks muscle cells?

Answer 17

Trypanosoma cruzi

Question 18

What does the Trypanosoma brucei attack?

Answer 18

The nervous system

Question 19

Which viridiplant attacks macrophages?

Answer 19

Leischmania major

Question 20

Deaths per year of Trypanosoma brucei?

Answer 20

> 5,000 a year

Question 21

60,000 a year die from this disease? Name the viridiplant

Answer 21

Leishmaniasis. Leischmania major

Question 22

Chagas’ Disease kills how many a year?

Answer 22

45,000 a year.