Bio II lab midterm

Anabena
-have Thick Akinetes if they
want to go dormant mode
-Have heterocysts to fix
nitrogen

labeled drawing

Oscillatoria

Merismopedia

Rhodospirillum
-Bacillus shaped

Euglena
-Can be heterotrophic or autotrophic
-Pellicle: unique cell surface, makes it flexible
-Stigma: Colored eye spot
-Flagella

Trypanosoma
-Parasitic, causes disease (sleeping sickness)
-Moves using undulating membrane
-

Giardia
-Parasite; Causes disease
(Giardiasis)

Diatom
-Cell wall made of Silicon Dioxide
-unicellular Algae

Brown Algae
-stipe: Stem
-airbladders: provide buoyancy
-holdfast: root-like structure
-frond: leaf-like structure

Dinoflagellates
-interlocking cellulose plates
-have chloroplasts

Stentor
-chainsaw cilia

Rhizaria
-Thread-like pseudopodia

Chlamydomonas
-two flagella, stigma

Spirogyra
-filamentous

Pandorina
-colonial green algae

Caulerpa
-Has fronds and
rhizoides like brown algae

Rhodopyta
-pigment : phycoerythrin

Amoeba
-move using extensions called
pseudopods

Dictydium
-Reproductive structure
of a slime mold

Liverworts
-reproduce asexually via
gemmae cups
-rhizoid roots

Polytrichium

Ferns
-Sori: clusters of sporangia
-Stipe: Stalk below blade
-Frond: all da leaf
-Blade: expanded leafy part of frond
-Pinna: division of blade
-Rhizome: underground stem
-they got roots

Horsetails
-Photosynthesize on stem
-Reduced Leaves
-the sporangia is called
strobili

Lycopodium
-club moss

Selaginella
-spike moss
-this is actually
heterosporous