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Coleochaetes
- - Green Algae
- - more advanced than Red Algae and ulvophytes
- - freshwater algae
- - plasmodesmata
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Ulvophytes
- - Green Algae
- - more advanced than red algae
- like sea lettuce
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Stoneworts (Charapyceae)
- - Green algae
- - more advanced than red algae, coleochates, and ulvophytes
- - accumulate CaCO3 on surfaces
- - plasmodesmata
- - freshwater algae (shallower areas)
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Bryophata (Mosses)
- - Nonvascular plants (Land plants)
- - more advanced than liverworts/hornworts
- - can live in extreme conditions
- - use rhizoids to stay attached
-mostly in gametophyte stage
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Liverworts
- - Nonvascular plant (Land plant)
- - most basic in this group
- - covered with cuticle
- mostly in gametophyte stage
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Hornworts
- - Nonvascular plant (land plant)
- - more advanced than liverworts
- - have stomata
- mostly in gametophyte stage
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Lycophytes (ground pines, club mosses)
- - Seedless Vascular plants
- - basal species
- - land plant with ROOTS (helps to conduct water/nutrients)
- - small, close to ground and has spiky stuff
- mostly in sporophyte stage
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Whisk Ferns
- - Seedless vascular plant
- - more advanced than lycophytes
- - lack roots (get it from rhizomes - underground stems - or epiphytes - on other plants)
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Horsetails
- - Seedless vascular plant
- - more advanced than lycophytes and whisk ferns
- - in stream banks and marsh edges
- - can flourish in oxygen-poor soils
- - hollow reed-like structure... O2 diffuses down stem to roots
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Ferns
- - Seedless vascular plants
- - more advanced than lycophytes, whisk ferns, and horsetails
- - large, well-developed leaves (called fronds) --> capture sunlight more effectively
- - sporophyte dominant phase
- fern sporangia located underneath fronds
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Cycads
- - Gymnosperm (Seed plant)
- - most basal
- - look like palm trees, compound leaves (leaf divided into leaflets)
- - heterosporous (micro or megasporangia)
- - use pollen
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Ginkgos
- - Gymnosperms (Seed plants)
- - more advanced than Cycads
- - deciduous... dormant during the winter
- - heterosporous
- - use pollen
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Gnetophytes
- - Gymnosperms (seed plants)
- - more advanced than cycads and ginkgos
- - bizarre structure (two large leaves that continuously grow at ends)
- - micro/megasporangia in clusters at end of stalks
- - pollen through the air
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Pinophyta (pines, spruces, firs)
- - Gymnosperms (Seed plants)
- - more advanced than cycads, ginkgos, gnetophytes
- - needle-like leaves
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Anthophyta (angiosperms)
- - angiosperms
- - most common plant on land
- - contain tracheids and vessel elements
- - carpel (ovary) and stamen (anther and sperm)
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mycorrhizal
fungal root that helps plants grow faster
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saprophyte
digest dead plant material
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peat
build up of dead plant material
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Precambrian Era
- - 4.6 bya
- - Earth forms
- - life begins
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Paleozoic Era
- - 542 mya
- - many animal lineages appear
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Hadeon Eon
creation of Earth/solar system (4.5bya)
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Archaean Eon
origins of life (3.8bya)
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Proterozoic Eon
oxygen in atmosphere, beginnings of multicellular life (2.5bya)
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Cambrian Period
explosion of life, like algae and more marine invertebrates (542mya)
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Ordvician Period
Echinoderms - sea stars/urchins (488mya)
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Devonian Period
upland plant communities, diversify fish (416mya)
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Carboniferious Period
insects diversify, swamps (make coal)
(359mya)
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Permian Era
coal forming swamps diminish - ends with mass extinction
(300mya)
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Mesozoic Era
Age of the reptiles (250mya)
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Triassic Period
gymnosperms dominant land plants, dinosaurs
(250mya)
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Jurassic Period
first mammals and angiosperms, dinosaurs still the head animal
(200mya)
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Cretaceous Period
Dinosaurs and angiosperms diversify
(145mya)
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Cenozoic Era
Age of Mammals (65.5mya)
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First animals on Earth?
cyanobacteria and algae
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What 3 fossils represent almost all the modern day lineages?
Burgess shale fauna, Ediacara fauna, Doushantuo fossils
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New genes, new bodies hypothesis
gene duplication (during Cambrian era) led to new copies of existing homeoitic genes (defines type of structure cell will become)
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Fats
comprised of 3 fatty acids linked to 3 carbon molecule called glycerol (through ester linkage)
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Phospholipid
ampipathic compound, comprises membranes
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Liposomes
artificial membrane-bound vesicles
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Hypertonic
sol'n outside has more solutes, water will flow out
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Hypotonic
sol'n outside has less solute, become engorged with water
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Fluid mosaic model
moving membrane with membrane proteins interspersed
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Synapomorphy
traits that define a single group
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Phenetic approach
using statistic (like DNA) to compare similarities
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Cladistic approach
using relationships built off shared derived characterrs
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Homoplasy
traits similar due to other pressuring force
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Types of fossils
intact, compression, cast, permineralized fossil
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When did the dinosaurs die?
end of the cretaceous period due to meteor (we know this due to iridium deposits and shocked quartz)
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Bacteria vs. Archaea
have circular chromosomes, spin propellor flagella (but molecular comp different), single celled
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Pathogenic
causes infections
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Koch's postulates
- - Microbes only exist in sick people
- - organism grown in separate culture
- - if organism injected to healthy animal, it should get sick
- - org. tested again
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bioremediation
using bacteria to help clean up pollution
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Direct sequencing
collecting sample from habitat, DNA purified and PCR used to multiply gene
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Main divisions of Archaea? (what do they love...)
- halophiles (salt)
- sulfate reducers
- methanogens
- thermophiles (heat)
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Gram stain
helps identify type of cell wall in bacteria
- (+) membrane surrounded by cell wall w/ peptidoglycan
- (-) membrane surrounded by thin gel layer w/ peptidoglycan and phospholipid bilayer
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Chemolithotrophs
oxidize INorganic material
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Chemoorganotroph
oxidize organic material
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What does oxygenic photosynthesis use for source of e-?
water
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Anoxygenic photosynthesis
uses iron
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Eukarya Lineages (in order)
- Excavata (excavated groove on one side of cell, no mitochondria)
- Discicristata (mitochondria, with disc-shaped cristae)
- Alveolate (alveoli that form layer under membrane)
- Strameopila (flagella covered in hairlike projections)
- Rhizaria (shell-like covering)
- Plantae (chloroplasts with double membrane)
- Opisthokonta (mitochondria cristae flat, single flagellum at base)
- Amoebozoa (no cell walls, form lobes when moving/extending outward)
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Firmicute
- - Bacteria
- - most basal
- - rod/spherical shaped
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Spirochetes
- - Bacteria
- - more advanced than firmicutes
- - corkscrew shape (spiral)
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Actinobacteria
- - Bacteria
- - more advanced than firmicutes, same as spirochetes and chlamydiales
- - form branching filaments called mycelia
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Cyanobacteria
- - Bacteria
- - more advanced than firmicutes, spirochetes, actinobacteria, and chlamydiales
- - photosynthesis
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Chlamydiales
- - Bacteria
- - more advanced than firmicutes, same as spirochetes and actinobacteria
- - all are endosymbionts within other organisms
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Proteobacteria
- - Bacteria
- - more advanced than firmicutes, spirochetes/actinobacteria/chlamydiales
- - very diverse group
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Crenarchaeota
- - Archaea
- - more basal
- - lives in extreme environments
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Euryarchaeota
- - Archaea
- - live in almost every single habitat known
- - all different shapes
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Paraphyletic
no single synapomorphy
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Plasmodium
- - Protist
- - evolves very quickly (causes malaria)
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Dinoflagellates
- - Protists
- - Cause red tides during algae blooms
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Phytoplankton
- - Protist
- - primary producer
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What are some themes in the diversification of protists?
- - nuclear envelope formed by infolding of membrane
- - cell walls or tests/shells
- - multicellularity
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Ingestive feeding
engulf bacteria
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Absorptive feeding
absorb from environment
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Photosynthesis
stolen ability from cyanobacteria, produce energy from light
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Virus
dependent, intracellular parasite (not considered living)
must be inside of a host to operate
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Bacteriophage
virus that infects bacteria
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Epidemic
affects large group of people over widening area
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Pandemic
epidemic that reached worldwide proportions
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AIDS
acquired immune deficiency syndrome... caused by HIV
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HIV
human immunodeficiency virus
affects helper T cells and macrophages
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capsid
enclosed shell of proteins
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enveloped virus
capsid is wrapped in extra membrane
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Latency
when virus infects animal and then becomes a part of the chromosome
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Lysogenic cycle
when virus takes over cell and then breaks out of cell to produce more cells
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Phases of Replicative Cycle for Viruses
- 1. entry
- 2. production and processing of viral protein
- 3. genome replication
- 4. virions assembly
- 5. exit cell
- 6. transmission to new host
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What is the origin of a virus?
"escaped gene sets" that remembered how to replicate
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