BIOL165 Lecture : Biol 165 - ALGAE.pdf
22 Apr 2013
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Introduction: eukaryotic algae are members of the kingdom protoctista, cyanobacteria is a prokaryotic bacterial algae, and part of the. 2n tetrasporothallus arises from carposporothallus when it falls on ground. Symbiodinium and tridacna: some are parasitic, blooms produce red tides along coasts of n. america and japan. Kill many fish during blooms: toxins produced by dinoflagellates accumulate in filtering shell-fish, and can cause serious illness in humans, psp = paralytic shellfish poisoning, ciguatera toxin producted by gambiergiscus. Chromista supergroup chromalveolata: chromista is a monophyletic group of divisions that share distinctinve dna, ultrastructures, and biochemical traits, it is thought they acquired their chloroplast through. This is a synapomorphy of the group: phylum haptophyta and chryptophya are likely basal to the entire supergroup chromalveolata. Phylum chlorophyta green algae: chloroplast is derived from a primary endosymbiotic event (unlike. Class chlorophyceae: flagellated and colonial, can use asexual or sexual reproduction isogamous to oogamous, genus volvox oogamy. Class ulvophyceae: isomorphic alternation of generations, isogamous or anisogamous.
