Mid Flashcards
Cyanobacteria characteristics
Photosynthetic
Mostly free living some are symbiotic
Base of food web in ecosystems
Produce oxygen
Protozoa characteristics
Single felled eukaryotes
Animal like
Heterotrophic
Food and contractile vacuoles
Amoeba
Live in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems
Use pseudopodia to move
Other use for psuedopodium besides movement
Used to engulf and digest food
Ciliphoria characteristics
2 major nuclei
Minor nuclei used for reproduction feeds on other single gelled organisms
Slime molds characteristics
Protists
Decomposers
No hyphae or chitin in cell walls
Slime mold that stream along damp forest floors
Physarum
Ascomycota characteristics
Sac fungi
Includes yeast truffles and mold
What important species of ascomyota
Penicillum which is used for antibiotics
Aspergillus oryxae used for saki and to enrich livestock food
Basidiomycota
Mushrooms
Shelf fungi
Important plant pathogens rusts and smuts
Why are club fungi important
Decomposers of plant materials and aid in water absorbtion and plants and mineral exchange
Euglenozoa
Unicellular autotroph protists
Use flagella to move
Protophyta
Protists
Resemble plants
Autotrophs
Produce major component of world oxygen
Dinoflagellates
Photosynthetic
Algae
