Protists

What Supergroup has Basal (“primitive”) eukaryotes

Supergroup Excarata

What Supergroup are Animals & Fungi

Supergroup Opisthokonta

What Supergroup are slime molds (mycetozoa)

Supergroup Amoebozoa

What Supergroup are plants, green algae, & red algae

Supergroup Archeplastida

Whats Strameophiles Alreoata Rhizaria?

SAR Supergroup

Finoglagellates (Dinophyta) are: photosynthetic or non-photosynthetic?

Photosynthetic

What are water molds called?

Oomycota

What are diatoms and brown algae called?

Ochrophyta

The Three Algae Domains

Eubacteria, Archarea, and Eukarya

What are the Four Kingdoms in the Eukarya:

Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista

Photosynthetic organisms that aren’t plants. Most are protists.

Algae

Domain Bacteria (prokaryotes)

Cyanobacteria

Cyanobacteria’s cell membranes are made of?

Peptidoglycan

What event made oxygen plentiful in the atmosphere?

Great Oxidation Event

What is Cyanobacteria found in today?

Blue-Green Algae

Phylum characterises:

• Green Algae

• Chlorophyll b

• Supergroup Archaeplastidia

• Single or Multi-cellular

• Freshwater, Saltwater, or Terrestrial (on rotting logs)

• Mostly Autotrophic

Phylum Chlorophyta

Phylum characteristics:

• Green Algae

• Chlorophyll b

• Supergroup Archaeplastida

• Freshwater only

• Multicellular

• Paraphyletic

Phylum Charophye

Phylum characteristics:

• Red Algae

• Supergroup Archaeplastidia

• Mostly saltwater — many seaweeds

• Mostly multicellular and reproduce sexually

• Three generations instead of two

  • Carposporophyte, Tetrasporophyte, Gametophyte

• Chlorophyll d & Phycobilins

Phylum Phodophyta

Phylum characteristics:

• Single-celled

• Asexual

• Supergroup Excavata

• Mixotrophic

• Moves with a flagellum

• Secondary endosymbiosis of green algae (plastid)

Phylum Euglenozoa

Phylum characteristics:

• Single-celled

• Asexual

• SAR Supergroup

• Red Tide

• Bioluminescence

• Coral Reefs

• Suit of “armor”

• Have had secondary endosymbiosis multiple times

Phylum SAR

Phylum characteristics:

• SAR Supergroup

• Secondary endosymbiosis of a red algae cell

• Chlorophyll c and carotenoids

Phylum Ochrophyta

Class description:

• Unicellular, asexual reproduction

• Silica exoskeleton

• Responsible for 50% of oxygen in atmosphere

• Diatomaceous earth — fossilized diatoms with mutliple uses

• Fucoxanthin — accessory pigment

Class Becillariophyceae — Diatoms

Class description:

• Seaweeds

• Mostly marine

• Multicellular — some quite large (200 ft)

• Usually found in colder waters

• Fucoxanthin — accessory pigment

• Pneumatocysts — buoyancy (keeps it floating)

Class phaeophyceae

Class description:

• Yellow-green algae — close relatives of brown algae

• No fucoxanthin

• Marine, Freshwater, and Terrestrial

Class Xanthophyceae

Class description:

• Golden Algae

• Mostly unicellular flagellates

• DO have fucoxanthin

• Freshwater only — can cause fish kills

Class Chrysophyceae