Lab 1: Using Microscopes; Introduction to Botanical Diversity

Domain Prokaryotes

Domain Bacteria and Archaea

Domain Bacteria

-Unicellular; some colonial

-Heterotrophs; some autotrophs (incl. cyanobacteria)

Domain Archaea

-Unicellular; some colonial

-Heterotrophs, some autotrophs

Domain Eukarya

Protists and Kingdoms: Animalia, Fungi, Plantae

Kingdom Fungi

-Unicellular; or multicellular filamentous

-Heterotrophs

-Studied in Mycology

Protists

-Unicellular, colonial, or multicellular

-Some autotrophic, others heterotrophic

Includes:

Algae- autotrophic, studied in Phycology

Water & Slime Molds- studied in Mycology

Kingdom Plantae

-Multicellular

-Autotrophic

Includes:

-non-vascular plants/Bryophytes

-vascular plants

->seed-free (club mosses, ferns, horsetails)

->seed plants: gymnosperms (eg. conifers) and angiosperms (flowering plants)

Total magnification

Objective lens x ocular lens

How many microns are in a millimeter?

1,000 microns: 10 x 100= 1,000

Cyanobacteria Anabaena

Type of photosynthetic prokaryotes, shown by the way it's arranged like beads on a string (forming filaments)

How long has cyanobacteria Anabaena been around

More than 2.5 billion years, among oldest group of organisms to evolve on Earth

What is algae and cyanobacteria studied in?

Phycology

What branch is fungi studied in?

Mycology