Algae and fungi
Cards (15)
- Fungi
- Eukaryotes
- Multicellular
- Heterotrophs
- Osmotrophs
- With cell wall
- Spread filaments (hyphae)
- Distantly related to plants
- Closer to animals
- Different from both plants and animals
- Important roles of fungi
- Nutrients cycle (decomposers)
- Plant symbiosis (mycorrhizae)
- Provide drugs
- Source of food
- Diseases
- Phyla of fungi
- Chytrids
- Zygomycetes
- Golmeromycetes
- Ascomycetes
- Basidiomycetes
- Chytrids
- Oldest fungi fossil
- Predominantly aquatic
- Spores with flagella
- Cell walls have chitin
- Frog disease
- Potato wart disease
- Zygomycetes
- Common mold
- Hyphae -> Mycelium (mass of hyphae)
- Zygospore: diploid spore
- Have no reproductive organs
- Have mating hyphae that create zygospores
- Glomeromycetes
- Most of them arbuscular mycorrhizae
- Fungi improve supply of water and nutrients
- Plant transfers Carbon to fungi
- Forced symbiotic relationships
- No known sexual reproduction
- Ascomycetes
- Sac-like structures
- Most diverse group
- Complex life cycle
- Parasites
- Basidiomycetes
- Form mycorrhizae
- Endomycorrhizae vs ectomycorrhizae
- Form basidiocarp, dispersal structure
- Algae
- Autotrophs
- No roots , leaves or vascular tissue
- Uni or multicellular
- Eukaryotes or prokaryotes
- Need water to survive
- Can form symbiosis with other organisms
- Most common example lichens: algae + fungi
- Uses: water treatment , cosmetics
- Euglenoids
- Unicellular
- Present motility (flagellum)
- Chrysophyta
- Unicellular
- Golden brown
- Diatoms
- Drug delivering uses: cancer treatment delivery in a more specific way
- Dinoflagellates
- Unicellular
- Bioluminescent
- Red tides
- Chlorophyta
- Green algae
- Freshwater and marine water
- Muntlicellular
- Some can be very large
- Rhodophyta
- Red algae
- Marine water
- Multicellular
- Cyanobacteria
- Unicellular
- Likely precursor of plants
- Probably origin of chloroplasts (endosymbiotic theory)
- Dominated earth for 2/3 of life history