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Heterocyst structure
- Light in appearance; larger than other vegetative cells
- Sensitive to oxygen
- Thicker wall that prevents diffusion of oxygen
- Develop from vegetative cells
- Not as granular
- Contain polar nodules (which connect) where there is a cytoplasmic connection between vegetative cells called microplasmodesmata
- Do not contain oxygen containing pigments
- Low in phycobilins and lack PS II
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Heterocyst function
- N fixation
- - Products are transported through the microplasmodesmata from the heterocyst to the vegetative cells and the products of photosynthesis move in the opposite direction
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akinete structure
- Larger than heterocysts; located next to heterocysts
- More granular in appearance; stacked with storage food
- Enlarged cells surrounded by thickened envelopes
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akinete function
- Not a reproductive structure; more of a resistance structure, which increases viability
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- Allow the cy. to survive during unfavorable periods
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lynbyatoxins
causes __
contains __
- lynbyatoxin a
- aplasiatoxin
dermatitis
tumor-producing compounds
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hormogonia structure
Short segments from cyanobacteria that break off from a cyanobacterial colony
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hormogonia function
Glide away from their parent colony at rates as rapid as 10 micrometers per second
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chlamydomonas
- Unicellular with two equal flagella
- Form of green algae
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function of chlamydomonas
- Has red photosensitive eyespot, the stigma, that aids in detection of light
- Chloroplast contains pyrenoid (surrounded by starch)
- Contractile vacuoles
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volvox structure
- Motile colonies; a hollow sphere; vegetative, biflagellated cells and nonflagellated reproductive cells
- Oogamous sexual reproduction
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True or False:
Some species of dinoflagellates can release exotoxins.
True: think of pfiesteria piscicida
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__ affect Na+ transport in the ANS and cause inhibition of neurons and transmission in skeletal muscle.
brevetoxins
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Fucus is __ that has __.
fucus
haplobiontic diploid
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Symbiotic dinoflagellates rae called __. They are responsible for __.
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In diatoms and dinoflagellates, which form of reproduction is more prominent?
asex is more prominent than sex
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What are hydrocolloids?
substances that form a gel in the presence of water; used as thickeners, emulsifiers, smoothing agents, stabilizing agents, etc.
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Macrocystis is __
brown algae
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Red Algae (polysiphonia) life cycle
sex organs arise near the tips of branches of the haploid gametophytes (which arise from haploid tetraspores)
spermatanngia releases cells taht act as spermatia
the carpagonium contains the nucleus at the basal layer and acts as the egg and is fertilized
diploid carpospores are formed by mitosis within carposporangia and freed through the pericarp (outer stucture)
carpospores germinate and form the tetrasporophyte, which produce the tetrasporangia
Through meiosis, the four tetraspores are formed (haploid) and form the haploid gametophytes starting the cycle over
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Why are red algae considered triphasic?
they have two sporophytes and one gametophyte
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