Bio Lec LT October 27 chp 9-18 Flashcards
Formal system for naming and classifying species, Science of classifying organisms based on similarity, biogeography, etc.
Taxonomy (Systematics)
Grouping organisms that resemble ancestors
Evolutionary Systematics
Used mathematical models to group organisms
according to overall similarities
Numerical Taxonomy
Use “outgroups”, differences between taxa to make a
subset called a clade (Greek - branch), most commonly used, measures variety of characteristics.
Phylogenetic Systematics (cladistics)
Greek philosopher _____ first classified organisms (350 BC)
Aristotle
Designed the current system of classification (1750), Swedish botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Groups of animals that share a
particular set of characteristics
Taxa (sing. taxon)
New level
Domain
Where are animals placed
Kingdom Animalia, or Domain Eukarya
Assignment of a distinctive name to each species
Nomenclature
First word, second word
Genus, species
Three names
Trinomials
Two names
Binomials
It is a reproductive community of populations (reproductively isolated from others) that occupies a specific niche in nature.
Species
Criteria for species
Common descent, smallest distinct groupings, reproductive community
Species with very large geographic ranges or worldwide distributions
Cosmopolitan
Species with very restricted geographic distribution
Endemic
Diagram illustrating hierarchy of clades (groups
of animals with common ancestry), not strictly equivalent to a phylogenetic tree
Cladogram
Examines shapes, sizes and development of
organisms
Comparative Morphology
Analyzes sequences of amino acids in proteins
and nucleotides sequences in nucleic acids
Comparative Biochemistry
Examines variation in number, shape and size of chromosomes
Comparative Cytology
Extending beyond the cell
Axoneme
They are an extremely diverse assortment of unicellular eukaryotes
Protozoans
Lack a cell wall
Protozoa
Contain chloroplasts.
Autotrophs
Absorb organic molecules or ingest larger food particles. (Phagocytosis)
Heterotrophs
Combine photosynthesis and heterotrophic nutrition.
Mixotrophs
Benefits both.
Mutualistic
One benefits, the other is neutral.
Commensalistic
One benefits at a cost to the other.
Parasitic
Extended forward, followed by the rest of the organism.
Pseudopod
Extensions of the cell cytoplasm used for locomotion.
Pseudopodia
Large blunt extensions of the cell body.
Lobopodia
Thin & sharply pointed extensions
Filipodia
Branched filaments
Rhizopodia
Branched filaments that merge to form a netlike mesh.
Reticulopodia
Thin pseudopodia supported by axial rods of microtubules called axoneme.
Axopodia
Contains DNA.
Nucleus
Organelle used in energy production.
Mitochondria
Part of the secretory system of the ER.
Golgi
Organelles containing photosynthetic pigments.
Plastids
Organelles that extrude something from the cell.
Extrusomes
Ingest particles of food.
Holozoic feeders (phagotrophs)
The membrane-bound vesicle containing the food.
Food vacuole
Often, the site of phagocytosis is a definite mouth structure, the _______.
Cystostome
Ingestion of soluble food
Saprozoic feeding
Fill with fluid and then expel the fluid outside the cell.
Contractile vacuoles
The cell multiplication process in protozoa.
Fission
One individual splits into two equal sized individuals.
Binary fission
Progeny cell much smaller than parent.
Budding
Multiple nuclear divisions followed by multiple cytoplasmic divisions producing several offspring.
Multiple fission
All look alike
Isogametes
Two different types
Anisogametes
Gametes from two individuals fuse to form the zygote.
Syngamy
Gametes from one individual fuse.
Autogamy
Gametic nuclei are exchanged.
Conjucation
Dormant forms with resistant outer coverings and a shutdown of metabolism.
Cysts
It is a very large clade characterized by a combination of flattened mitochondrial cristae and one posterior flagellum on flagellated cells.
Opisthokonta
Includes several groups of heterotrophs as well as certain groups of algae.
clade Stramenopila
Examples of Stramenopila
Water molds, diatoms, golden algae, brown algae.
Contains unicellular and multicellular green algae, bryophytes and vascular plants.
clade Viridiplantae
Single celled algae colonial forms.
Phylum Chlorophyta
It is a colonial organism that shows a division of labor where most cells are somatic cells concerned with nutrition & locomotion, but a few germ cells are responsible for reproduction.
Volvox
Is a diverse clade that includes predatory heterotrophs, photosynthetic autotrophs, and pathogenic parasites. Kinetoplastids & Euglenids.
Phylum Euglenozoa
Have one or two flagella that emerge from a pocket at one end of the cell.
Subphylum Euglenida
Have a single, large mitochondrion that contains an organized mass of DNA called a kinetoplast. Include free-living consumers of bacteria in freshwater, marine, and moist terrestrial ecosystems.
Subphylum Kinetoplasta
Parasitic kinetoplast
Trypanosoma
Includes commensal and parasitic unicells. Lack mitochondria and golgi.
Phylum Retortamonada
Are adapted to anaerobic environments. Lack plastids. Lack mitochondria but may have mitochondrial genes in the nucleus. IE Giardia
Diplomonads
Move by means of flagella and an undulating part of the plasma membrane.
Parabasalids
Membrane-bounded sacs (alveoli) just under the plasma membrane. Dinoflagellates, apicomplexans, ciliates.
clade (superphylum) Alveolata
Use cilia to move and feed. Have large macronuclei and small micronuclei.
phylum Ciliophora (Ciliates)
Large, varied group of protists.
Ciliates
All ciliates have a ____ system made up of
the ____, _____ and other fibrils.
kinety, cilia, kinetostome
Many have structures that can be expelled
such as _____ and _____.
trichocysts, toxicysts
Ciliates that lose cilia as adults, grow a stalk and become sessile.
Suctoria
Some commensal, others parasitic.
Symbiotic ciliates
May be swimmers, or sessile. (Stentor, Vorticella, Paramecium)
Free-living ciliates
_______, as well as many other protists, reproduce asexually by binary fission.
Paramecium
A sexual process that produces genetic variation.
Conjugation
A diverse group of aquatic photoautotrophs and heterotrophs.
Phylum Dinoflagellata
Parasites of animals and some cause serious human diseases.
Apicomplexans
A complex of organelles specialized for penetrating host cells and tissues
Apical complex
Non-photosynthetic plastid
apicoplast
Found in fresh and salt water as well as moist soil.
Amebas
An ameba feeds by wrapping a _______ around its food
Pseudopod
Are parasites of vertebrates and some invertebrates
Entamoebas
Causes amebic dysentery in humans.
Entamoeba histolytica
This Phylum has slender pseudopodia that extend through openings in the test, then branch and run together forming a net.
Foraminifera
multi-chambered shells
Tests
marine testate ameba with intricate skeletons.
Radiolaria
pseudopodia of radiolarians
Axopodia
Multicellular animals
Metazoans
Solitary or colonial aquatic eukaryotes with each cell having a flagellum surrounded by a collar of microvilli.
Choanoflagellates
sponge feeding cells
choanocytes
Metazoans descended from ancestors characterized by a hollow, spherical colony of flagellated cells.
Colonial Flagellate Hypothesis
Who proposed the Colonial Flagellate Hypothesis?
Haeckel
Sessile animals that have a porous body and choanocytes.
Sponges
What kind of feeders are sponges?
Suspension feeders
Water flows in here
dermal ostia
Choanocytes take in small particles by
phagocytosis
Protein molecules are taken in by
pinocytosis
The simplest canal system.
Asconoid
Where are asconoid systems found
Class Calcarea
Large chamber
Spongocoel
Water enters through the ostia and exit through the large _____.
Osculum
Tubular body and singular osculum like asconoids.
Syconoid
Most complex, permits an increase in sponge size.
Leuconoids
It is the gelatinous matrix containing skeletal elements & amoeboid cells.
Mesohyl (mesenchyme)
Ameboid cells that phagocytize particles at the pinacoderm and receive particles for digestion from choanocytes.
Archaeocytes
Secrete spicules
Sclerocytes
Secrete spongin fibers
Spongocytes
Secrete fibrillar collagen
Collenocytes
Thin, flat, epithelial-type cells that cover the exterior and some interior surfaces of the sponge.
Pinacocytes
involves a complete reorganization of the structure and functions of participating cells or bits of tissue
Somatic embryogenesis
Internal buds
Gemmules
Sponges are monoecious, true or false?
True
Have spicules composed of calcium carbonate.
Class Calcarea
Are mostly deep sea forms.
Class Hexactinellida
contains most of the sponge species (95%).
Class Demospongiae
was formed to contain sponges without a skeleton or with siliceous spicules without an axial filament
class Homoscleromorpha
Is the sole species of phylum Placozoa
Trichoplax adhaerens
Stinging organelles
Nematocysts
Some species exist as both polyps and medusae during their life cycles.
Polymorphism