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Diatoms
- Phylum: Bacillariophyta
- Unicellular or colonial organisms of both fresh and marine waters
- "The algae that live in glass houses"
- Pennate--bilaterally symmetrical
- Centric--radially symmetrical
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Genus: Anabaena
- Cyanobacteria
- Heterocyst
- Akinete
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Genus: Nostoc
- Cyanobacteria
- Colonial
- Constist of many filaments within a gelatinous or colloidal matrix
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Genus: Oscillatoria
- Cyanobacteria
- Filamentous
- Hormogonia (Hormogomium)--means of vegatative reproduction
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Genus: Saprolegnia
- Phylum: Oomycota (the water molds)
- Saprophitic
- Oogonia (female gametangia) with eggs
- Antheridia (male gametangia)
- Several times smaller than oogonia
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Puccinia graminis
- Phylum: Basidiomycota
- Class: Teliomycetes
- Produce spores in clusters (sori)
- Black stem rust of wheat
- Uredinial--red stage
- Telial--black stage
- Urediniospores--binucleate, single-celled spores
- Teliospores--two-celled, each cell binucleate
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Genus: Penicillium
- Phylum: Ascomycota (the sac fungus0
- Look like brooms
- Conidiophores--branching, spore-producting structures
- Conidia--chains of asexual spores
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Genus: Rhizopus
- Phylum: Zygomycota
- Sporangia
- Sporangiophores--upright stalks to which sporangia are attached
- Stolons--interconnecting hyphae between groups of sporangiophores
- Rhizoids--anchor
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