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MICRO2
The Eukaryotes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the kingdom of fungi? | Fungi |
| Kingdom of algea? | Protists |
| Kingdom of protozoa? | protists |
| Kingdom of helminths? | Animalia |
| FUNGI | FUNGI |
| Are they prokaryotic or eukaryotic? | Eukaryotic |
| How do they like oxygen? | Aerobic of faculatative anerobic |
| How do they get their food? | Chemoautotrophic |
| What is their purpose in the environment? | They are decomposers that break down stuff in environment |
| What are the two types of molds of fungi? | Thallus and hyphea |
| What is thallus? | Body |
| What is hyphea? | long filaments joining organisms |
| What is an important class of fungi? | Yeasts |
| YEASTS | YEASTS |
| What kind of fungi are they? | uNicellular fungi |
| How do fission yeasts divide? | symmetrically |
| How do budding yeasts divide? | asymetrically |
| Do fungi divide using both ways? | nOpe, one or the other |
| What is dimorphism? | Ability to grow both ways |
| What are the two temperature divides and what do each represent, that are present in dimorphism? | 37-yeast like-----25-mold like |
| What kind of reproduction do yeasts perform? What do they need to do this? | Sexual and asexual reproduction; yeasts need to start with two copies |
| What is the process of asexual reproduction? | Hypha produces conidiosphore-->they become released as asexual spores-->conidium germinate, producing hyphea |
| What are methods of sexual reproduction in fungi and yeasts? | Mycellium growth, plasmogomy, karyogomy, miosis, mitosis, ascus released ascosopes, |
| What is plasmogamy? | haploid donor cell nucleus (+) penetrates cytoplasm of recipient cell (--) |
| What is karygomy? | plus and minus fuse together |
| What is the acrospore do upon release? | germinates to produce hyphea |
| How do algea get their food? | They get their food by passive absorption |
| Are they euks or proks? | Eukaryotes |
| What is their unicellular form called? | Filementous (molds) |
| What is their multicellular form called? | thallic |
| Euk or prok? | Eukaryotic |
| What cell type? | Multicellular |
| How do they get their food? | Chemoautotrophic |
| PHYLUM | PHYLUM of HELMINTHIS |
| What are NEMATODEs? | Roundworms |
| What is infective for us? What is it known us? | Eggs (larvea) |
| What is an example of one? | Pinworm |
| Define difinitive host: | Host from which organism passes its adult and sexual stages |
| Define intermediate host: | Host in which it doesn't reproduce successfully |
| What is a vector? | How the organism gets to us |
| What is a prominent vector? | Anthropods |