Flashcards in Mid Deck (14)
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Cyanobacteria characteristics
Photosynthetic
Mostly free living some are symbiotic
Base of food web in ecosystems
Produce oxygen
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Protozoa characteristics
Single felled eukaryotes
Animal like
Heterotrophic
Food and contractile vacuoles
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Amoeba
Live in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems
Use pseudopodia to move
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Other use for psuedopodium besides movement
Used to engulf and digest food
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Ciliphoria characteristics
2 major nuclei
Minor nuclei used for reproduction feeds on other single gelled organisms
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Slime molds characteristics
Protists
Decomposers
No hyphae or chitin in cell walls
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Slime mold that stream along damp forest floors
Physarum
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Ascomycota characteristics
Sac fungi
Includes yeast truffles and mold
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What important species of ascomyota
Penicillum which is used for antibiotics
Aspergillus oryxae used for saki and to enrich livestock food
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Basidiomycota
Mushrooms
Shelf fungi
Important plant pathogens rusts and smuts
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Why are club fungi important
Decomposers of plant materials and aid in water absorbtion and plants and mineral exchange
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Euglenozoa
Unicellular autotroph protists
Use flagella to move
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Protophyta
Protists
Resemble plants
Autotrophs
Produce major component of world oxygen
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