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BIOLOGY 3404F EVOLUTION OF PLANTS Fall 2008 Lecture 8 October 14 Chapter 15, Part II: Rhodophyta & Chlorophyta
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Rhodophyta (red algae): Few unicellular, few freshwater; most are marine seaweeds Some are coralline (covered in calcium carbonate) – important in coral reefs Life cycles include alternation of generations (sporic meiosis)
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Rhodos, II Source of both important edible species (dulse [Rhodymenia = Palmaria] in Canada and western Europe; nori [Porphyra] in Japan) Source of chemicals used in food, pharmaceutical and industrial applications (agar and agarose from Gelidium; carageenan predominantly from “Irish moss”, Chondrus crispus – also good for making chocolate seaweed pudding
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Marine: Bonnemaisonia. Phycobilins make them red
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Marine: coralline red algae in a tide pool
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Marine: crustose red alga from coral reef, Porolithon
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Marine: Irish moss, Chondrus crispus
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Freshwater: Batrachospermum, from cold lakes and streams
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Chlorophyta (green algae): Very large group (17,000 described species, probably many more inconspicuous ones), ranging from unicellular to colonial forms and large seaweeds, and a few are calcified like the coralline red algae Many are not really green but orange, red or pink because of photoprotective pigments; “strawberry snow” (especially common on glaciers, but also common here in Ontario on late winter snow) is a species of Chlamydomonas that forms the base of an unusual snow-surface food chain
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Chlorophyta II Photosynthetic and wall chemistry as well as DNA sequences link chlorophyta to true plants Skip ultrastructural details Refer to Lab 1 for the groups of Green algae that we cover: –Chlorophyceae (Chlamydomonas, Volvox, Hydrodictyon) –Ulvophyceae (Ulva, Cladophora, Acetablularia) –Charophyceae (Spirogyra, desmids, Coleochaetales: Coleochaete, Charales: Chara).
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Chlorophyta III The Charophyceae include the closest existing organism to the probable ancestor of embryophytes (land plants): Coleochaete Zygotes of Spirogyra and Chara form thickened walls containing sporopollenin, also found in spores (or pollen) of true plants Life cycles may have zygotic meiosis (like fungi; Chlamydomonas) or sporic meiosis (Ulva)
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Red, or watermelon, snow caused by Chlamydomonas nivalis Also green snow, orange snow, … Carotenoids protect the photosynthetic machinery from high sunlight of alpine areas.
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Zygotic meiosis in life cycle of Chlamydomonas
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Colonial Chlorophyceae: Gonium, Pandorina, Eudorina
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Colonial Chlorophyceae: Volvox
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Colonial Chlorophyceae: Hydrodictyon
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Ulvophyceae: branched filaments of Cladophora
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Sporic meiosis and alternation of generations in the life cycle of Ulva, the sea lettuce
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“Siphonous” Ulvophyceae (means they are coenocytic): Codium
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Siphonous Ulvophyceae: Ventricaria
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Siphonous Ulvophyceae: Acetabularia, which we saw in lab
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Placobranchus, a sea slug (nudibranch) containing cloroplasts of siphonous Ulvophyceae such as Codium. Chloroplasts survive in their respiratory chambers, and may make the slugs net oxygen producers
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Charophyceae: Spirogyra, showing conjugation of two haploid filaments and formation of diploid zygospores; life cycle has zygotic meisois
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Desmids: Xanthidium, Euastrum, and Micrasterias, showing cell division on right
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Coleochaete (Charophyceae), the closest we have to a common ancestor to higher green plants (embryophytes)
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Charophyceae: Chara, a stonewort (hardened by calcium carbonate) On the right you can see gametangia: oogonium above antheridium
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