General Botany Lab Review Fungi, Algae, Bryophytes, Ferns & Fern Allies

You have looked at a lot of stuff – both live and via prepared slides. You’ve also labeled at least one Life Cycle Diagram for each of the groups.

Know what your benchmarks are for a general life cycle diagram and be able to label them. I will not ask you to identify anything to species or genus; be able to identify things to “group” (i.e., ascomycete, bryophyta, etc.) Be able to identify growth form (e.g., unicell, filamentous, etc.). Recognize the differences between sexual and asexual reroductive structures.

All questions will be multiple choice.

Material looked at:

UNIT 1: FUNGI EXERCISE 1: CHYTRIDS/ CHYTRIDOMYCOTA: Allmyces arbusculus – life and prepared slides EXERCISE 2: ZYGOMYCETES/ ZYGOMYCOTA: Rhizopus stolonifer – live and prepared slides EXERCISE 2: MYCORRHIZA and the GLOMEROMYCETES/ GLOMEROMYCOTA – prepared slides only EXERCISE 3: ASCOMYCETES/ ASCOMYCOTA Aspergillus sp., Penicillium sp., Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Peziza sp., Sordaria fimicola, and Morchella sp. – a mixture of live and prepared materials EXERCISE 4: BASIDIOMYCETES/BASIDIOMYCETES Agaricus, Coprinus, Cronartium (a rust), Ustilago (a smut) – slides, fresh, and dried EXERCISE 5: SLIME MOLDS – live and prepared Physarum EXERCISE 6: LICHENS – live and prepared slides be able to identify the various growth forms

UNIT 2: ALGAE EXERCISE 1: CYANOBACTERIA Anabaena sp., Nostoc, and Oscillaroria – live and prepared material EXERCISE 2: SUPERGROUP EXCAVATA (Phylum Euglenophyta) – live and prepared material EXERCISE 3: SUPERGROUP ALVEOLATA (Phylum Dinophyta) – live and prepared material EXERCISE 4A: SUPERGROUP STRAMENOPHILA or HETEROKONTS (Phylum Bacillariophyta – diatoms & desmids) – live and prepared material EXERCISE 4B: SUPERGROUP HETEROKONTA (Phylum Phaeophyta – brown algae) – live and prepared material EXERCISE 4C: SUPERGROUP HETEROKONTA (Phylum Oomycota – Water Molds) – live and prepared material EXERCISE 5A: SUPERGROUP ARCHAEPLASTIDA (Phylum Rhodophyta – The red algae) – live and prepared material EXERCISE 5B: SUPERGROUP ARCHAEPLASTIDA (Phylum Chlorophyta – The green algae) – live and prepared material EXERCISE 5C: SUPERGROUP ARCHAEPLASTIDA (Phylum Charophyta – The green algae) – live and prepared material

UNIT 3: BRYOPHYTES EXERCISE 1: MOSSES AND LIVERWORTS – live and prepared material Sphagnum sp. and one of the other species of moss. EXERCISE 2: MOSS SPOROPHYTES – live and prepared material EXERCISE 3: IMMATURE MOSS GAMETOPHYTES – live and prepared material EXERCISE 4: MATURE MOSS GAMETOPHYTES – prepared material EXERCISE 6: LIVERWORTS – live and prepared material Marchantia, Conocephalum, and Reboulia EXERCISE 7: HORNWORTS – prepared material only

UNIT 4: FERNS AND FERN ALLIES (Seedless Vascular Plants) EXERCISE 1: THE FERN SPOROPHYTE – live and prepared material PART A: EXTERNAL STRUCTURE PART B. INTERNAL STRUCTURE – rhizome cross-section, and root cross-section PART C: STRUCTURE OF THE FROND AND SORI – live and prepared material EXERCISE 2: FERN SPORANGIA AND SPORES – live and prepared material EXERCISE 3: THE FERN GAMETOPHYTE – live and prepared material EXERCISE 5: THE WATER FERNS: Salviniaceae – live and prepared material Marsilea, Salvinea, and Azolla EXERCISE 6: The Pteridophyte “fern allies” – live and prepared material Equisetum and Psilotum EXERCISE 7: The Lycopodiophyte “fern allies” – live and prepared material Lycopodium and Selaginella

Life Cycles 1. Label diagram below (Of the parts of a lichen). 2. LIFE CYCLE: Allomyces arbusculus 3. LIFE CYCLE: Rhizopus stolonifer 4. LIFE CYCLE: Peziza sp. 5. LIFE CYCLE: Sordaria sp. 6. LIFE CYCLE: Coprinus sp. 7. LIFE CYCLE: Chlamydomonas sp. 8. LIFE CYCLE: Volvox sp. 9. LIFE CYCLE: Spirogyra sp. 10. LIFE CYCLE: Oedogonium sp. 11. LIFE CYCLE: Ulva sp. 12. LIFE CYCLE: a Moss 13. LIFE CYCLE: Ferns 14. LIFE CYCLE: Selaginella