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What are euglenoids?
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Phylum: euglenophyta, free-swimming cells, 1-3 flagella, euglena |
What is Chara
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Phylum: Charophyta - Stoneworts, stem has internodes and nodes - nodes have whirl of brances |
What is the male fructification of a Chara?
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Globule
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What is the female fructification of a Chara?
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Nucule
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What phylum are dinoflagellates in?
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Dinophyta/Pyrrhophyta |
Give an example of a dinoflagellate.
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Peridinium, circular free-swimming cells, ornamented with spines. Motile vegetative cells encircled by transverse or spinal groove. |
Describe motile peridinium.
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Biflagellate, two flagella inserted into the groove. |
What phylum are diatoms in?
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Bacillariophyta/Chrysophyta
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What is the common name for Chrysophyta?
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Golden Algae
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Describe diatoms.
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Unicellular & colonial, *the cell wall is highly silicified and composed of two overlapping halves (Petri dish), bilateral or radial marking on the cell wall
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What are the 4 algae we talked about in the phylum Phaeophyta?
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Fucus, sargassum, laminaria, nereocystis
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Find the thallus with air bladders, swollen receptacles, and holdfast on a fucus.
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Fucus |
Identify a sargassum.
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Sargassum: extended stipe with leaf-life flattened structures attached, air bladders |
Identify Laminaria
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Branching holdfast, a stipe and a long, flattened blade |
Identify nereocystis
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Kelp, stipe is unbranced, has large pneumatocyst with blades, has a holdfast |