KINGDOM PROTISTA
EXAMPLE GENUS PIGMENTS STORAGE PRODUCTS CELL WALL
EUGLENOPHYTA Euglena Chlorophyll A & B Paramylon No cell wall
Carotenoids
Xanthophyll
PYRROPHYTA dinoflagellates Chlorophyll A & C Starch cellulose
Carotenoids
Xanthophyll
BACILLARIOPHYTA diatoms Chlorophyll A & C leucosin silicon
Carotenoids
Fucoxanthins
CHRYSOPHYTA Vaucheria Chlorophyll A &C Laminarin cellulose
Carotenoids large quatities of
Fucoxanthins silica
PHAEOPHYTA Fucus Chlorophyll A & C Laminarin
fucoxanthin
carotenoids
RHODOPHYTA Corallina phycoerythrin Floridean starch Cellulose
phycobilins calcium carbonate
CHLOROPHYTA Chlorophyll A & B starch cellulose
Chlamydomonas
Chlorella
Protococcus spherical
w/ nucleus
1 large lobed
chloroplast
Volvox
Spirogyra Pyrenoids
- site of starch
Ulothrix
Oedogonium
CHAROPHYTA stoneworts
Pfiesteria piscicida
MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE
Plant - like & Animal - like
Photosynthetic
freshwater
pellicle
stigma
1-3 flagella
small ; unicellular Red tides
photosynthetic
bioluminescent
fresh and sea water
1 lateral and 1 posterior flagellum
2 plates (centric and pennate) diatomaceous earth - filtering medium,
fresh and marine toothpase, silver polish
Filamentous coenocytic algae plankton and nanoplankton that form the
sexual dimorphism (anteridia, oogonium) foundation of the marine food chain
golden brown algae
Brown algae source of:
flat thallus iodine - thickening and stabilizing agent
marine algin - medicinal and nutritional use
stem-like stripe
blade - leaflike region
holdfasts - anchorage
air bladders - bouyancy
receptacles contain conceptacles which
produce gametes
red algae contributes to coral reef formation
marine - great depths carageenan - cosmetics, gell capsules, cheeses
complex sexual life cycle agar - food thickener or culture medium
Green algae
salt water and fresh water
unicellular ; 2 flagella
cup-shaped choloplasts w/ pyrenoids
have stigma
fresh water
haplontic lufe cycle
sexual rep - 2N zygote
asexual - zoospores
unicellular ; spherical
large cup shaped chloroplast
space study
lives in moist soil and fresh water
sexual rep only
single cells / small clumps of cells
habitat: bark of trees or most rocks
asexual rep
spherical colony of hundreds of flagellated cells
asexual and sexual rep.
division of labor:
vegetative cells
sperm producing cells
egg producing vells
daugher colony - producing cells
Filamentous w/ spiral chloroplast
green "scum" in ponds
asexual - fragmentation
sexual rep - conjugation of isogametes
Filamentous fresh - water alga
asexual - zoospore production
sexual - flagellated isogametes
filamentous fresh - water algae
some cells - oogonia (egg-producing)
- antheridia (sperm - producing)
secreted by finfish and shellfish
benthic cysta / amoebae or non toxic flagellated cells
POISONOUS
Ciguatera Fish Poisoning
- Gambierdiscus toxicus (ciguatoxin, maitotoxin)
Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning
- okadaic acids and dinophysistoxins
Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning
- Karenia brevis (brevetoxins)
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
- saxitoxins
Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning
- Pseudo-nitzschia spp (domoic acid)
to toxic zoospores
