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General Characteristics of Fungi
- Eukaryotic
- Most are mulitcellular (except yeast)
- Heterotrophic (nutrients via hydrolytic enzymes)
- Roles: Saprophytic, parasitic, mutualistic, or predaceous
- Cell walls made of Chitin
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Chitin
Cell wall material in fungi
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Hyphae
Thread like, grows into a mass of mycelium
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Septate fungi
Have hyphae divided by walls (septum=wall)
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Aseptate/Coenocytic
No walls, so many nuclei within the same cytoplasm
See diagram
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Sporangia
Reproductive Structure
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Fruiting Bodies
Reproductive Structure
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Deuteromycota
Fungi that show no form of sexual reproduction, imperfect.
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Fungi Reproductive Cycle
- Haploid spore
- Heterokaryotics fused-unfused nuclei
- Diploid zygote
See diagram
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Chytrids
Flagellated spores; found in lakes, ponds and soil (mostancient); decomposers or parasitic
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Zygomycetes:
- (Zygote fungi)
- Produce haploid sproes by meiosis
- fast growing molds-bread and fruit
- parasites on animals
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Glomereomycetes:
- (arbuscular mychorrhizal fungi)-lives in harmony
- Form distinct michorrhiza in which hyphae that invade roots branch into tiny tree-like structures called arbuscules
- 90% of plants have this relationship
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Arbuscules
Tiny, tree-like structures that relate to Glomereomycetes
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Ascomycetes
- (Sac fungi)
- Asci produce spores
- Marine, fresh water, or terrestrial
- Diverse group from unicellular yeasts to morels and cup fungi
- Plant pathogens
- Lichens
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Basidiumycetes
- (Club fungi)
- Basidium=club shaped structure that producees spores
- Decomposers-mushrooms, puffballs, shelf fungi (can break down lignin in wood
- Parasites-rusts and smuts
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Ergotamine
- (Lysergic acid)
- Similar to LSD
- Hallucinations by Salem "witches"
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Mycosis
- Fungal infection
- ex. athlete's foot fungus, ringworm, yeast infection
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Coccidiodomycosis
A fungal lung infection similar to TB-life threatening
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Decomposers
- Rid world of physical waste
- Recycle needed nutrients
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Lichen
- Symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a green algae or cyanobacteria
- Fungus obtains organic compounds from photosynthetic partner, fungus provides phosphorus, H2O, and minerals
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Mycorrhiza
- Fungus root
- Relationship between plant root and fungus
- Fungal hyphae brancch out into soil and take up mineral nutrients, some are passed onto plant roots and will receive food from the plant in return.
- Relationship can also provide disease resistance to plnt and eliminate the need for fertilizer
- Most land plants form mycorrhizal associations, may have been an important relationship for plants to become terrestrial.
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Monocot
- 1 Cotyledon
- Parallel vein arrangement in leaves
- Complex vascular bundles arrangement in stems
- Multiple of 3 flower parts
- Fibrous root system
- Ex. Bamboo
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Dicot
- 2 Cotyledons
- Multibranched vein arrangemetn in leaves
- Ring vascular bundle arrangement in stems
- Multiples of 4 or 5 flower parts
- Vertical Taproot system
- ex. Dandelion, Food crops, Shrubs, and Trees
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Node
Poinits where leaves are attached
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Internode
Portion of stem between nodes
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Blade
Photosynthetic part of leave
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Petiole
where stem attaches to leaf
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Fibrous root
Thin roots spread out shallowly
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Taproot
Vertical deeper root
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Root hairs
Increase surface area of roots
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Apical dominance
Phenomenon in whihc terminal buds produce hormones that inhibit growth of axillary buds;increases exposure to light; if terminal bud is removed, plant gets bushier
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Terminal bud
At apex of stem, have developing leaves and nodes/internodes
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Axillary buds
One in each angle formed by a leaf and a stem;usually dormant
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Stolon
Horizontal stem that grows along ground surface, enable plant to reproduce asexually; ex. strawberries
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Rhizome
Horizontal stems that grow just below or along soil surface, store food and have buds; ex. ginger
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Tubers
Enlarges structures at the end of some rhizomes, specialized structures for nutrient storage; ex. potatoes
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Tendrils
Help plants climb
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Parenchyma cells
- (living), most abundant
- Primary walls are thin and flexible
- Lack secondary cell walls
- Large central vacuole
- Perform most metabolic functions of plants (in chloroplasts)
- many can divide and differentiate into other types of plants cells
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Collenchyma cells
- (living)
- Unevenly thick primary cell walls used for plant support in plants that are still growing
- lack secondary cell walls, no lignin
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Sclerenchyma cells
- (dead when mature)
- support element strengthened by secondary cell walls with lignin
- occur in regions of plants that have stopped growth
- Two types: Fibers- long and slender bundles, Sclereids-shorter, thick, irregular hard secondary cell wall (ex. nuts)
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Water Conducting Cells
- Xylem
- Dead when mature
- Rigid secondary cell walls with lignin
- Tracheids-Long thin cells with tapered ends
- Vessel Elements- wider shourter and less tapered; overlap-tube system from roots to stem water passes through pits and openings in end wall
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Food-Conducting Cells
- Phloem
- Living, lose most organelles-pass more easily thorugh Sieve tube members
- Sieve plates-end walls between STM, have pores
- Companion cell- found along side of STM, connected by plasmodesmata, produces and transports proteins to STM
- Source to sink
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Sieve plates
end walls between STM, have pores, food conducting cells
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Tracheids
- -Long thin cells with tapered ends
- Water conducting cell
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Vessel Elements
- - wider shourter and less tapered; overlap-tube system from roots to stem water passes through pits and openings in end wall
- Water conducting cells
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Companion cells
found along side of STM, connected by plasmodesmata, produces and transports proteins to STM, food conducting cells
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Dermal
Outer layer of cells for protection
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Cuticle
Waxy covering on stem
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Vascular
- (Material transport)
- Provides support and long-distance transport
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Xylem
Water and dissolved minerals, roots to leaves
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Phloem
transports nutrients from leaves to stem and roots
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Ground
- (photosynthesis, storage, and support)
- accounts for most bulk in a young plant
- fills space between dermal and vascular tissues
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Pith
Ground tissue that is internal to vascular tissue
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Cortex
Ground tissues that in external to vascular tissue
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Meristems
Tissues that make growth in plants possible
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Apical meristems
Tips of buds and roots; control primary growth (increase in length)
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Lateral meristems
Cylinders of dividing cells along length of roots and stems; control secondary growth (wood), increase in girth
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Root cap
Protection of apical meristem cells in root
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Zone of cell division
Primary (Apical meristem)
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Zone of elongation
Cells lengthen, pushes root tip
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Zone of maturation
Differentiation of cells (formation of three tissue systems)
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Stele
Vascular bundle where both xylem and phloem develop (Root)
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Pith
Central core of stele in monocot, parenchyma cells
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Cortex
Region of the root between stele and epidermis (innermost layer endodermis) bulk of root
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Lateral roots
Arise from pericycle (outermost layer of stele) just inside endodermis, cells may become meristematic (cells that actively divide)
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Stomata
Tiny pores for gas exchange and transpiration; 2 guard cells
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Mesophyll
ground tissue between upper and lower epidermis (parenchyma with chloroplasts); palisade (mostly photosynthesis) and spongy (gas circulation)
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Vascular cambium
Adds layers of vascular tissue on either side of vascular cambium
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Bark
Everything external to vasculara cambium (secondary phloem, cork cambium, and cork)
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Cork
Brown outer layer that replaces epidermis
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Wood Rays
Consist of parenchyma cells that transport water to the outer living tissues in the trunk
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Heartwood
Center of trunk, consists of older layers of secondary xylem (no longer functioning)
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Sapwood
Lighter colored, consistes of younger seconary xylem that does conduct water and minerals (xylem sap)
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Flower
Reproductive shoot of angiosperms, contain 4 types of modified leaves
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Sepals
Enclose and protect flower bud
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Petals
Colorful advertisers to pollinators
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Stamen
Male reproductive organ, composed of an anther (pollen) and filament (stalk)
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Carpel
Female reproductive organ, composed of stigma (sticky), style (neck), and ovary (makes ovules, will become a developed egg after fertilization)
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Ovule
- Central cell with protective covering of smaller cells
- Contains triploid central
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Cotyledons
- Seed leaf, first to appear
- Provide food to embryo until leaves form
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Seed coat
Tough outer covering of seed, formed from outer coat of ovule
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Seed dormancy
condition in whihc growth and development are suspended temporarily (evolutionary adaptation)
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Simple fruit
- Fruit derived from flower with single carpel
- ex. peach, peas, nuts
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Aggregate fruit
- Derived from flower with more than one carpel, clustered together
- ex. Raspberry
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Multiple fruit
- Derived from multiple flowers clustered together
- ex. Pineapple
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Division Bryophyta
- 475 mya
- Noon vascular
- Require water (flagellated spores)
- ex. mosses, liverworts, hornwort
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Division Tracheophyta
- 420 mya
- Vascular tissues
- Can grow upright
- Move away from water
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Seed Producing
- 360 mya
- Seed protection to embryo
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Seedless (spore producing)
- Flagellated spores-water
- ex. Fern
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Gymnosperms
- Uncovered seeds
- Not in protective chambers
- ex. gingko, conifer, cycods
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Angiosperms
- 140 mya
- Protected seeds
- Flowering plants
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Gametangia
Protective coverings around gamete-producing cells; carried by wind or animals
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Pollination
Transfer of pollen from anther to stigma
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Pollen
- Contains:
- Tube nucleus (2n) digs pollen tub through pistil to ovary
- Generative nucleus (2n) which divides to form two haploid sperm (n)
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Tube nucleus
Digs pollen tube through pistil to ovary
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Generative nucleus
Which divides to form two haploid sperm
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Fertilization
Union of sperm and egg
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Double fertilizataion
- Sperm 1 + egg=zygote-eventually becoming plant embryo
- Sperm 2 + 2 polar nuclei=Endosperm-food for the embryo
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Endosperm
- (3n)
- which becomes food for the embryo
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Spines of Cactus
Protection
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Large taproots
- that store carbs
- ex. Carrots, turnips, sugarbeets, sweet potatoes
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