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| Phylum Mastigophora or Zoomastigina |
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Definition
| Move by whiplike flagella - paranema, trypanosomes (sleeping sickness), Terminte Symbiots, Garia, Trichomonas |
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| Move by means of tiny, hairlike cilia, have a macronucleus and a micronucleus or they have a "chain neucleus" - Paramecium, Vorticella, Stentor |
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| Phylum Sarcodina or Rhizophoda |
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Definition
| Move or feed with pseudopodia or axipodia, includes the amoeba like protozoans - amoeba, entamoeba, histolytica, radiolarian, and foraminiferans. |
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| "Brown algae" - most complex colonial alga with some division of labor and are usually know as the "Seaweeds". All are marine. Kelp, rockweed, etc... Algin is an extract ofthe brown alga which is used as a "stabalizer" in many foods like ice cream and canned soup. |
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| "Red algae" most are marine. Irish moss is one example. Rhodopsin is an extract of these alga and is used to make agar (a bacteria growth median). |
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| Phylum Pyrrophyta or Dinoflagellata |
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Definition
| "Fire Algae" or dinoflagellates. Sometimes called the "red tide" organisms. They exhibit bioluminesense. |
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| Phylum Chrystophyta or Bacillariophyta |
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Definition
| "Golden brown algae" (Diatoms) - most are univellular and some are fillamentous. Diatoms produce time silica (glass) boxes called frustules. Diatoms are the number one primary producers on earth and are responsible for 80% of the air. Vaucheria and Taballaria are fillamentous types. |
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| Euglena - unicellular, flagellated green algae which can be "plant like" or "animal like". |
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| "green algae" - Spyrogyra, Volvox, Protococcus, Desmids, Oedogonium, Ulva(Sea Lettuce). Most are freshwater. |
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| Unicellular or colonial, "plant like". |
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| Eukaryotic, unicellular, and colonial. Includes the angae (or phytoplankton) and Protozoan (or zooplankton) and slime molds. |
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1. The cap of the mushroom
2. The point at which the mushroom cap tore from the stem.
3. The stem of the mushroom
4. The underside of the cap
5. The 'sac' it came from. |
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Definition
1. Pileus
2. Annulus
3. Stipe
4. Gills or Pores
5. Vulva |
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| The "fungi imperfecti" - many examples lack a sexual reproductions patter. Athletes foot and Ringworm. |
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| "Club Fungi" - Spores born on club-like basidi. Pore fungi, gill fungi are two basics. Mushrooms, toad stools, puffballs, bracket or shelf fungi, "earth stars", rust, smuts. |
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| "Sac Fungi" spores are born into sac like ascus. Truffles, Morels, cup fungi, yeasts. Found in lichens, mildews. |
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| Phylum Phycomycetes or Zygomycota |
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Definition
| Algae like fungi - bread mold, water mold, ichth, tail rot, mycorniza. |
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Definition
1. Eukaryotic with chitinous cell wall.
2. Most live off the dead or waste products or are parasitic.
3. Many are decomposers.
4. Body of the fungus is the mycelium made of thread-like or hair-like hyphae. |
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| Phylum myxomycophora or Myxomycetes |
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Definition
| Slime Molds - exhibit and "animal like" plasmodium stage and a "plant and fungus like" sporangial stage. An amoeboid spiderweb. |
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| Parasites - they have no real means of locomotion in mature stage - all parasitic with insent vectors. Parasites hosts are either primary host or secondary host. Examples of these causing human disease is Plasmodium which cause Malaria |
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