3. 1.5 million known species
on earth
– 250,000 plants
– 750,000 insects
– 43,000 vertebrates
4200 mammals
9000 birds
6300 reptiles
4200 amphibians
18,000 bony fishes
900 cartilaginous
fishes and jawless
fishes
4. Classification System
Why classify organisms?
– Method of organizing creatures into
some meaningful pattern
Current method uses similar shared
observable characteristics that are
unique to that group of organisms
(phenetic scheme)
5. What do these
animals have in
common?
Why classify bats and
hummingbirds
together but not
include dragonflies?
10. What are Genera?
An inclusive group of similar
species, usually with anatomical
similarities
Pinyon mouse,
Peromyscus truei
Deer mouse,
Peromyscus maniculatus
Genus = Peromyscus
15. Corvus brachyrhynchus
Why Latin?
“Dead” language – no changes being
made; it is not in use today
Common names are often shared among
several species; may differ from region to
region; may not be understood in different
cultures
Assures a unique name for each species
21. Bacteria
Among the first forms of life over 3.5
billion years ago
Cyanobacteria contributed to formation of
our oxygen atmosphere by
photosynthesis.
fossil cyanobacteria
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanofr.html
22. Prokaryota
Include eubacteria and archaebacteria
Most abundant/diverse
Prokaryotic organisms
Lacks an organized nucleus or
membrane-bound organelles
Nostoc (cyanobacterium)
23. 1. Prokaryotic v Eukaryotic Cells
This characteristic separates
which kingdoms?
24. Eubacteria
Eubacteria (“True bacteria”) have 3 methods
of energy acquisition
– Chemosynthetic bacteria: autotrophic, obtain
energy from oxidation of inorganic
compounds (ammonia, sulfur)
– Photosynthetic bacteria: autotrophic, obtain
energy from sunlight and convert to
carbohydrate energy
– Heterotrophic bacteria: saprophytes and
symbionts
25. Archaebacteria
– Oldest and most primitive organisms known
– Life’s extremists, occupying environments that
“normal” organisms find too harsh
– 3 types
methanogens, halophiles, thermacidophiles
– thermacidophile example: lives in heated acid
springs, mud pots, soil and can take temps of
60 to 95 C and pH of 1 to 5.
26. Roles in Ecosystem
Can cause disease
– Lyme disease, strep throat, syphilis
Photosynthesis and oxygen production
Food source
Nutrient transfer
– (convert inert N to organic forms useable by
plants)
Spirulina
Decomposition
– Saprophytic (decompose dead tissue)
– Symbiotic (live within a host multicellular organism)
Some oil deposits attributed to cyanobacteria
29. Protista
Protozoa
– Single-celled, motile, heterotrophic
– Digest food by engulfing, breaking down, and
absorbing it
Algae
– Single-celled to colonial
– Diatoms, golden brown algae, dinoflagellates, red
algae, brown algae, green algae
– Subdivided by type of photosynthetic pigment
Slime molds
Eukaryotes that are NOT fungi, animals, or
plants!
31. Protista – Roles in Ecosystem
Photosynthesis and oxygen
production
Food source (brown, red, green
algae)
– Animal feed, fertilizers
– Algae sheets used in some
Japanese dishes
– Additive to puddings, ice cream,
salad dressing, candy
(carrageenan and alginate)
Can cause disease
– Avian malaria, human malaria,
amoebic dysentery
32. Protista and Red Tides
Population
explosion of
dinoflagellates
Neurotoxin
released
Shellfish
concentrate toxin
Humans can be
killed by eating
shellfish
contaminated by
toxin
http://www.redtide.whoi.edu/hab/rtphotos/noctiluca.jpg
34. Fungi
Mushrooms, blights, rusts, molds
>60,000 species
Heterotrophic
Chitinous cell wall
Symbiotic
– 2 or more organisms
live together in close association
Mostly multicellular
– Yeasts are unicellular
35. Fungi
Hyphae = filaments make up the body of
a fungus
Collectively, hyphae are
called mycelium
Can produce sporocarps
Absorptive heterotrophs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus
– Hyphae have small volume, large surface
area so enhance absorptive capacity
– Break down food by secreting digestive
enzymes onto substrate then absorbing
food molecules
37. Fungi – Roles in Ecosystem
Food source
– Mushrooms, truffles,
morels
– Mycorrhizae
– Fungal colonies in
cheeses give
them their flavor
– Beer and wine
produced with yeasts
www.genomenewsnetwork.org/a
rticles/12_03/yeast_screen.shtml
Antibiotics – Penicillin
helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/microbes/p
enicill.htm
www.treepics.co.uk/education/animals/index.ph
p?n=squirrel
39. Fungi – Roles in Ecosystem
American chestnut, late 1800s
Crop parasites cause loss of food
plants, spoilage,
infectious disease
Claviceps purpurea
causes a crop
disease called wild
ergot
Dutch elm disease
and Chestnut blight
Claviceps purpurea
43. Plants
>300,000 known species
Multicellular phototrophs
Cell wall with cellulose
2 groups
– Nonvascular (liverworts, hornworts, and
mosses)
– Vascular (common plants like pines, ferns,
corn, and oaks)
44. Plants
Nonvascular plants
– Small (lack of conducting cells
keeps them <5” high)
– First evolved approximately
500 million years ago, likely
were the earliest land plants
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/bryoph1.htm
Vascular plants
– Have specialized transporting
cells
Xylem (for transporting water
and mineral nutrients)
Phloem (for transporting sugars
from leaves to the rest of the
plant)
www.ventephoto.com/image10.htm
45.
46. Plants – Roles in Ecosystem
List 3 functional roles that
plants play in your life.
my.opera.com/Mathilda/albums/show.dml?id=45047
Food source
Generate oxygen
Provide habitat
48. Animals
Big-brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus
Multicellular heterotrophs
No cell wall
External or internal
skeletons for support
Skin to reduce water loss
Muscles for moving to find food
Brains, nervous system for integration
of signals
Internal digestive systems
53. Animals - Vertebrates
Phylum Chordata: 50,000
vertebrates
2 groups
– Jawless forms (Class Agnatha)
hagfish, lamprey
– Jawed forms – most of the
animals we know
64. 4. Chitin v. Cellulose
chitin
Inflexible,
tough,
insoluble in
water
cellulose
65. 5. Heterotropic v Autotrophic
Autotrophic = “self-feeding”
– Create food through photosynthesis
Heterotrophic = “other feeding”
– Must absorb food
– Can grow through or on a substrate, break
down the substrate, absorb nutrients
This characteristic separates which kingdoms?
66. 6. Unicellular v Multicellular
unicellular bacteria cell
multicellular animal cell
This characteristic separates which kingdoms?
What differences/similarities do you see in the morphology of these 2 species?
Monera from all other kingdoms
Lyme disease – carried by mammals and birds, transmitted by ticks to humans
Many heterotrophic bacteria also cause diseases such as strep throat, rheumatic fever, cholera, gonorrhea, syphilis, and toxic shock syndrome. Bacteria can cause disease by destroying cells, releasing toxins, contaminating food, or by the reaction of the body to the infecting bacteria. Bacterial infections can be controlled by vaccinations and antibiotic treatments. Antibiotics interfere with some aspect of the replication of bacteria, and are produced by microorganisms such as fungi, that compete with bacteria for resources. Penicillin, the first antibiotic discovered, inhibits the synthesis of new cell walls in certain types of bacteria. However, the overuse of antibiotics during the past fifty years has led to natural selection favoring antibiotic resistance. There are reportedly more than 50 strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria, necessitating the development of new antibiotics and the frequent change of antibiotics in treatment.
Euglena, diatoms, paramecium
Euglena, diatoms, paramecium
Protista: Tremendous diversity – unicellular and multicellular, heterotrophic and autotrophic, variety of photosynthetic pigments
Fungi, lichens
Fungi, lichens
Fungi, lichens
Lichen pictured is a favorite of caribou.
Lacewing using lichen to camoflage (http://www.lichen.com/animals.html)
Symbiosis – 2 or more species live together in close association
Mutualism = both benefit
Lichen = algae + fungi
Mycorrhizae – fungus + plant, fungus helps with water absorption, ion transfer; tree supplies fungus with food (carbohydrates)
Lichens are a symbiosis between a photosynthetic organism (alga or cyanobacterium) and a fungus (sac or club). Mycorrhizae are fungi (usually a zygomycete or basidiomycete) symbiotic with the roots of plants. Both relationships are mutualistic: both parties benefit. Fungi provide nutrients from the substrate, the phototroph provides food. Plants with mycorrhizae grow better: the plant gets nutrients from the fungus in exchange for carbohydrates.
The word "mycorrhizae" literally means "fungus-roots" and defines the close mutually beneficial relationship between specialized soil fungi (mycorrhizal fungi) and plant roots.About 95% of the world’s land plants form the mycorrhizal relationship in their native habitats. It is estimated that mycorrhizal fungal filaments explore hundreds to thousands more soil volume compared to roots alone.Benefits include:
Improved nutrient and water uptake
Improved root growth
Improved plant growth and yield
Improved disease resistance
Reduced transplant shock
Reduced drought stress
http://www.mycorrhizae.com/WhatAreMyco.php
See picture of mycorrhizal pine seedlings growing in a glass box. Miles of white fungal filaments radiate from the root system of these little trees
Fungi, lichens
Fungi, lichens
Fungi, lichens
Gray triggerfish
Oscar
Yellowfin tuna
Swordfish
Great barracuda
Western fence lizard
Short horned lizard
Gila monster
Arizona coral snake
Desert box turtle
Monera from all other kingdoms
Presence of chloroplasts separates Plantae from Fungi (fungi are white)
Animalia from Plantae and Fungi
Cell wall in plants is cellulose-based, in fungi it is chitin-based. Both substances are inflexible, tough, and insoluble in water.
Cellulose = polymer of D-glucose.
Cellulose and chitin are very similar, differing only in chitin having a nitrogen-containing group in place of cellulose’s hydroxyl group (OH).
Also forms part of the hard outer covering of insects
Autotrophic = Plantae
Heterotrophic = Fungi, Animalia
Heterotrophic and Autotrophic = Monera, Protista