01:119:116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hypha, Cell Membrane, Cordyceps

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Biological Science
• Course: 01:119:116
• Professor: Professor Beal

Document Summary

A. review: protist is the result of endosymbiosis (it has a eukaryote inside), eukaryotes evolved 3. 5 billion years ago, protista came a billion years after that. B. introduction: fungi are in eukarya, it is in the unikonta supergroup, part of the opisthokonts, cannot use light to make sugar. C. the origin of fungi (important: figure 31. 8: the name refers to posterior location of the flagellum in these organisms, 1. ) Animals, fungi, and several groups of protist: more closely related to a different group of protists (the choanoflagellates) than they are to either fungi or nucleariids, 2. ) Nuclearids- more closely related to fungi than to other protists: heterotrophic amoebas, feed on algae and bacteria, 3. ) B. some fungi are unicellular: that is a derived state. C. not photosynthetic: no chlorophyll and no chloroplasts -> not plants. E. resource acquisition: hypha -> digestive enzyme secreted -> substrate digested -> organic matter absorbed.