BIOL 2004 Study Guide - Final Guide: Zygomycota, Coenocyte, Choanoflagellate

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Very diverse group of eukaryotes: some very small and unicellular, some produce large multicellular structures called fruiting bodies. Opisthakonts: closely related to animals and choanoflagellates. Nutrients and metabolism: composed of many cells, many produce reproductive fruiting bodies, sapotrophs, sapotrophs start with large molecules and break down into small organic, some are simple osmotrophs molecules using enzymes. Only consumer small organic molecules that don"t need further breaking down to be used. Generalities: most are aerobic, mostly immotile. Motile stage in life cycle: most are filamentous with hyphae. Mass of hyphae mycelium: reproduction. Sexual: different kind of spores sexual spores. Hyphae: individual elements of an organism are narrow made up of a bunch of very thin branching filaments. Lots of nutrient absorption: can grow at rates measured in tens of micrometers pper hour. Unicellular forms of fungi that have evolved in several lineages.

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Fungi Fungi are the great decomposers of the biosphere. Most plants form mycorrhizae with fungi to increase absorptive area without having to grow more roots, in this relationship fungi recieve carbohydrates from plants. Humans consume fungi, mushrooms, may use fungi as a source of drugs for blood pressure, antibiotics and immunosuppresive drugs. Fungi are used in biotechnology to produce fermetation products, and some have been very useful models to study gentics in eukaryotic cells that are unicellular such as yeasts. About one third of fungi may cause infections, mycoses, in plants, animals and humans. Fungi tolerate concentration of salt and sugar that plasmolyze bacteria in perserved foods exposed to air which contains fungal spores may germinate and may spoil food. Fungi have two body shapes, molds and yeasts. Mold are large and made of long filamentous hyphae. Hyphae form mats called mycelium ( plural is mycelia). Mycelia may extend for miles underground, making fungi the largest organism on earth. The visible portion of subterrean fungi are the fruitng bodies such as mushrooms. Yeasts are globular and unicellular. They may bud forming up 24 daughter cells from a single cell. When budding is incomplete it may produce a psuedohypa. Fungi that may exist in both body types are dimorphic fungi. In general, the yeast form of a dimorphic fungus is a pathogen, the filamentous form is not pathogenic. Examples are Histoplasmosis capsulatum (histoplasmosis) and Coccidiodes immitis (coccidioidomycosis). Fungi are saprobes, they absorb nutrients from the remains of dead plants or they lasso nematodes. Fungi may derive nutrients from a living plant utilizing haustoria which are modified hyphae that penetrate living plant tissue. Some fungi use melanin to absorb gamma rays which they convert to chemical energy. Some herbivores have fungi in thier gut microbiome to help digest plants. Zygomycota contains 1100 species and reproduces asexually through sporangiaspores, which form in a sac called a sporangium on a stalk called a sporangiaphore. An example is Nosema which is an obligate intracellular parasite in insects and honeybees. Ascomycota havd 32,000 species form haploid ascospores in sacs called ascus (asci plura) and reproduce asexually with condiospores which develop on the tips of hyphae on stalks called conidiophores. Examples are Claviceps purpurea, ergot, which grows on grain and causes abortions in cattle and hallucinations in humans. Penicillium the source of the first antibiotic discovered by Fleming in the 1940s. Saccharomyces, a facultative anaerobe, ferments sugar to produce alcohol and carbon dioxide gas and is used in baking and brewing. Neurospora was used as a model to study molecular biology, Beadle and Tatum established one gene one enzyme using this model organism.

14. Why are there more antibacterial drugs than antifungal drugs? Basidiomycota have fruiting bodies called basidiocarps. Basidiospores are dispersed by the wind and germinate in warm moist environments. An example is the pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans the leading cause of fungal meningitis

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1. You observe that small crustaceans swimming through a sample of ocean water set off light production, but your first guess is that this is due to some bacterium, since bacteria are so metabolically diverse. True or false

2. How did multicellular organisms evolve from unicellular organisms?

Single-celled organisms joined together, or failed to separate after cell division.

Single-celled organisms joined together only.

Single-celled organisms failed to separate after cell division only.

Single-celled organisms joined together, or absorbed other species by endosymbiosis.

One species absorbed another species by endosymbiosis only.

3.Cooperation between or among cells could have been a key step in the evolution of multicellularity.

True

False

4. Autotrophs must acquire carbon from organic molecules produced from other organisms.

True

False

5. The protists, though now known to have multiple origins, were first group due to their being aquatic, and, most of them, quite small.

True

False

6. You are analyzing samples under a microscope, and one sample coming from what you suspect is a fungus. You find tiny filaments, which, in your report, you call

hyphae.

spores.

fruiting bodies.

7. Fungi are classified into phyla based on which characteristic?

organelles

composition of cell wall

photosynthesis

reproductive structures

multicellular vs. unicellular

gills.

chitin.

You are studying two populations of dung beetles, one of which rolls their dung balls at noon, resting at night, and the other of which reverses this. These could speciate due to

behavioral isolation.

gametic isolation.

mechanical isolation.

temporal isolation.

sexual selection.

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