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| What have been characterized based on the following characteristics: Pigments, cell wall chemistry, food storage compounds, and presence or absence of flagella? |
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| What is a generic term used to describe a number of different plant-like protists? |
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| What compose the largest group of algae? |
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| What are usually single-celled and motile and are primarily found suspended in fresh or salt water as plankton? |
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| What organisms' cell walls are an intricate lattice of organic matter and silicon dioxide? |
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| How do Diatoms usually reproduce? |
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| Usually asexually through mitosis but on occasion can produce eggs and sperm. |
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| What is the second largest group of algae? |
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| What subgroup of green algae includes the closet living relatives to true plants? |
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| What makes brown algae brown or olive in color? |
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| The carotenoid pigment fucoxanthin. |
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| What makes red algae appear reddish in color? |
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| The pigment phycoerythrin. |
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| Where would some red algae look black? Greenish? |
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| Deep-water habitat. Shallow water habitat. |
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| All of the brown algae and most of the red algae are what? |
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| The largest and most complex brown algae, most of the red algae, and a few large green algae are what? |
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| Seaweed anatomy can be so advanced as to mimic the body plan of true plants. What are three ways they mimic true plants? |
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| Root-like holdfast, stem-like stipe, and leaf-like blades. |
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| What gelatinous polymers are produced in brown algal cell walls? |
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| What gelatinous polymers are produced in red algal cell walls? |
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| What can the gelatinous polymers produced in algal cell walls be used for? |
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| Thickening agents and emulsifiers. |
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| What domain are cyanobacteria a subgroup of? |
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| Cyanobactera are prokaryotic or eukaryotic? |
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| Where are cyanobacteria usually found? |
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| Ocean waters, marshes and mud flats. |
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| What form are cyanobacteria usually found? |
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| Filamentous (thread-like). |
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| How do cyanobacteria reproduce? |
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| Why were fungi historically classified with plants? |
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| They both have cell walls. |
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| What does it mean that fungi are heterotrophic? |
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| They feed on organic matter that originated from other organisms? |
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| What kingdom are fungi recognized as part of? |
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| Fungi are primary __________ of organic matter. |
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| What type of fungi feed on living organic matter? |
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| What type of fungi feed on dead organic matter? |
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| What is a tubular, threadlike filament of a fungus? |
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| What is a mass of hyphae? |
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| What is the reproductive structure of fungi which bears sexually produced spores? |
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| What type of fungi spend much of their life cycle in a haploid, asexual stage in which sporangia are produced on erect hyphae and make haploid spores through mitosis? |
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| What type of fungi includes the common mushroom as well as other fungi that are conspicuous due to their large fruiting bodies? |
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| How do basidiomycota reproduce? |
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| Some asexually, others sexually. |
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| What are the club-shaped cells called on the large fruiting body of basidiomycota? |
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| Basidia (singular basidium). |
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| What are the sexually produced spores on the surface of basidia referred to as? |
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| What is the largest group of fungi? |
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| What is the fruiting body of Ascomycota that bears sexually produced spores in sacs called? |
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| Where does meiosis occur in Ascomycota? What does it produce? |
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| In the ascus. Ascospores. |
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| What informal group of fungi is composed of organisms for which no sexual reproductive stage has been observed? |
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| Deuteromycetes (imperfect fungi). |
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| What are composed of a specific fungal component and one of several commonly found cyanobacteria or green algae living in close association with each other? |
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| Which part of a lichen is typically incapable of living on its own? |
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| What part of the lichen absorbs water and nutrients for both organisms and provides some protection from the sun? |
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| What part of the lichen photosynthesizes, providing food for both organisms? |
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| The algal (or cyanobacterial) component. |
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| What are the three main lichen body types? |
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| Foliose, crustose, and fruticose. |
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| What is a multicellular haploid form? |
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| What is a multicellular diploid form? |
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| What form produces haploid gametes that fuse to form a diploid zygote? |
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| Are sporangium haploid or diploid? |
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| Are spores haploid or diploid? |
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| Are gametes haploid or diploid? |
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| Are zygotes haploid or diploid? |
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