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This supergroup includes red and green algae, as well as plants.
What is archaeplastida?
This supergroup includes nucleariids and choanoflagellates, as well as fungi and animals.
What is Opisthokonta?
These fungi are usually aquatic and unicellular. They have flagella and can cause lethal skin infection in amphibians.
What are chytrids?
These are flowering plants! Know the parts of a flower!
What are angiosperms?
This bryophyte is dessication-tolerant. The gametophyte looks like green carpet, and the sporophyte looks like an orange/brown stalk.
What is moss?
These Opisthokonts have contractile collar cells that participate in feeding and suggest a close relationship with animals.
What are choanoflagellates?
These stramenopiles (supergroup Chromalveolata) include the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine and that nearly wiped out American chestnut trees. They have a fungus-like morphology.
What are oomycetes?
Fungi in this group produce mushrooms as their reproductive structures, which feature gills.
What are Basidiomycetes?
This group includes the closest living relatives of early land plants. The male gametes are flagellated, so water is required for reproduction.
What are bryophytes?
These are vascular plants that produce seeds and have sporophylls arranged strobili. They include familiar pine and fir trees, and they don't lose their leaves, making them especially susceptible to infestations.
What are gymnosperms?
Members of this supergroup likely descended from an ancestor that engulfed a red algal cell. Red tides, malaria, and some bioluminescence result from members of this supergroup.
What are chromalveolates?
Some of these Rhizaria are thought of as vampires, because they puncture other cells and suck out the contents.
What are Cercozoa?
Fungi in this group are important mutualists of plants. They associate with plant roots and give the plants nutrients in exchange for sugars.
What are glomeromycetes?
These plants are haplontic and have some overlap with green algae.
What are Charophytes?
This group of plants includes club mosses, quillworts, spike mosses, whisktails, horsetails, and true ferns. They don't produce seeds but do have xylem and phloem. They gave rise to coal deposits we use today.
What are seedless vascular plants?
These alveolates (supergroup Chromalveolata) include the causative agent of malaria.
What are apicomplexans?
This supergroup includes gymnamoebas and entamoebas. A star member of this group is slime mold.
What is Amoebozoa?
Fungi in this group reproduce asexually but switch to sexual reproduction when conditions get bad. The zygospores they produce can stay dormant until conditions improve. Bread mold is an example.
What is Zygomycota?
These flowering plants have two cotyledons, branching leaf veins, flower parts in multiples of 4 or 5, and a tap root with lateral roots.
What are dicots?
These angiosperms have one cotyledon in seedlings, parallel leaf veins, 3- or 6-fold symmetry in flowers, and fibrous roots. Corn is an example.
What are monocots?
These Rhizaria are single-celled and associate with photosynthetic algae. They are ecological indicators and take part in nutrient cycles.
What are foraminiferans?
This supergroup includes the causative agent of trichomoniasis, the gut inhabitant that enables termites to digest wood, and the Euglena that we viewed in lab.
What is Excavata?
What are ascomycetes?
TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: these are animals that coevolved with flowering plants. One type helps flowering plants reproduce, and the other can help disperse their seeds.
What are pollinators and herbivores?
These gymnosperms have the male and female reproductive organs in separate individuals. There is only one species alive today.
What are ginkgophytes?