Botany Lab Practical 1

Botany lab pr actical

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What are euglenoids?
Answer 1
Phylum: euglenophyta, free-swimming cells, 1-3 flagella, euglena
What is Chara
Answer 2
Phylum: Charophyta - Stoneworts, stem has internodes and nodes - nodes have whirl of brances
What is the male fructification of a Chara?
Globule
What is the female fructification of a Chara?
Nucule
What phylum are dinoflagellates in?
Answer 5
Dinophyta/Pyrrhophyta
Give an example of a dinoflagellate.
Answer 6
Peridinium, circular free-swimming cells, ornamented with spines. Motile vegetative cells encircled by transverse or spinal groove.
Describe motile peridinium.
Answer 7
Biflagellate, two flagella inserted into the groove.
What phylum are diatoms in?
Bacillariophyta/Chrysophyta
What is the common name for Chrysophyta?
Golden Algae
Describe diatoms.
Unicellular & colonial, *the cell wall is highly silicified and composed of two overlapping halves (Petri dish), bilateral or radial marking on the cell wall
What are the 4 algae we talked about in the phylum Phaeophyta?
Fucus, sargassum, laminaria, nereocystis
Find the thallus with air bladders, swollen receptacles, and holdfast on a fucus.
Answer 12
Fucus
Identify a sargassum.
Answer 13
Sargassum: extended stipe with leaf-life flattened structures attached, air bladders
Identify Laminaria
Answer 14
Branching holdfast, a stipe and a long, flattened blade
Identify nereocystis
Answer 15
Kelp, stipe is unbranced, has large pneumatocyst with blades, has a holdfast