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Review Sheet #7: Fungi, Algae, and Protists Flashcards

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Mycellium

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A matt of hyphae

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Actinomycetes

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  • Gram +
  • High G+C content
  • Bacteria that act like golgi
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Exospores

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Produced by asexual sporulation

Formed outside cell wall

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Endospores

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Formed inside cell wall

By sexual sporulation (?)

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Classes in Eumycota (6 total)

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  1. Basidiomycota
  2. Zygomycota
  3. Ascomycota
  4. Chitrids
  5. Glomeromycota
  6. Microspora
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Basidiomycota

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  • Typical mushroom
  • Smuts, rusts, and plant pathogens
  • Basidiospores in gills
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Zygomycota

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Bread mold

Spores have thick, black coats

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Ascomycota

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  • Spores surrounded by ascus (sac)
  • Yellow mold
  • Morell, yeast, pombe
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Chytrids

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  • Live underwater
  • Parasites
  • Flagella
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Glomeromycota

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  • Symbiotic with plants

- Mycorhizae

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Microspora

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  • Used to be considered protists
  • Pathogens
  • Spring loaded polar filament
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Streptomyces makes…

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Antibiotics

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4 important actinomycetes

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  1. Mycobacterium
  2. Soil Bacteria
  3. Streptomyces
  4. Bifidobacterium
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Mycobacterium

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Acid fast (mycolic acid)

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Soil Bacteria

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Gives dirt its smell

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Bifidobacterium

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Probiotic

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Mycology

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Study of Fungi

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Thallus

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  • Form/Body of organism

- Not a phallus

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Dikaryotic

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  • Stage of sexual reproduction

- Nuclei share cytoplasm, no fusion

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5 Characteristics of Eumycota

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  1. Eukaryote
  2. Saprophyte
  3. Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
  4. No photosynthesis
  5. Chitin in cell wall
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Saprophyte

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Secretes enzymes onto dead organic material, then absorbs soluble product

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Coencytic Hyphae

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Nuclei sharing 1 cytoplasm

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Septate Hyphae

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Hyphae have divisions between cells

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Protist Classification (3)

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  1. Sarcomastigophora
  2. Apicomplexa
  3. Euglenoids
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4 types of sexual sporulation
1. Arthrospores 2. Sporangiospores 3. Conidiospores 4. Blastospores
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Arthrospores
Hyphae fragments ---> Spores
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Sporangiospores
Sac of spores surrounded by membrane
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Conidiospores
Naked chains of spores
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Blastospores
Made by budding
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Rhizoidal Hyphae
Hyphae growing down like roots
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Aerial Hyphae
Hyphae pointing up
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Fungal YM Shift
Switching modes of growth Yeast/Mycelium
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2 types of growth in fungal YM shift
1. Yeast | 2. Mycelium
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Sexual Sporulation in 3 types of Eumycota
1. Basidiomycota 2. Zygomycota 3. Ascomycota
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Cell Division in S. Cervisiae
Budding
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Cell Division in S Pombe
Fission
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Mycorhizae
Fungi-roots into the body of plant. Grows on/into plant
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Plasmodium
Structure of mold, no cell wall. Cytoplasm
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Fruiting body
Part of fungus that contains spores
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"Slug"
Slime mold on the move when nutrients scare
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Dictyostelium
Cellular slime molds Amoeba Slug
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Algae characteristics
1. Eukaryote 2. Oxygenic photosynthesis with chlorophyll 3. Lacks vasculature system
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Phycology
Study of Algae
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Pyrenoid
Large Structure for Starch Storage inside chloroplast.
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Eyespot
Photosensitive
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Fragmentation
Each cell of a multicell organism can become a unique organism
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Green Algae
1. Chlamydomonas | 2. Volvox
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Chlamydoonas
1 cell, 2 flagella | Big eyespot
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Volvox
1,000 chlamy-like cells in a ball
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Golden-Brown/ Yellow-Green algae
Diatoms, Frustules
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Frustules
2-part protective coat
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Brown Algae
- Kelp and other seaweed | - Each cell does own photosynthesis
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Red Algae
- Deeper in Ocean - Makes Agar - Decreased light = lower wavelength = red
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2 specific green algae
1. Chalmydomonas | 2. Volvox
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2 algae important to plankton
1. Diatoms | 2. Dinoflaggelates

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