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
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Label diagram below (Of the parts of a lichen).
LIFE CYCLE: Allomyces arbusculus
LIFE CYCLE: Rhizopus stolonifer
LIFE CYCLE: Peziza sp.
LIFE CYCLE: Sordaria sp.
LIFE CYCLE: Coprinus sp.
LIFE CYCLE: Chlamydomonas sp.
LIFE CYCLE: Volvox sp.
LIFE CYCLE: Spirogyra sp.
LIFE CYCLE: Oedogonium sp.
LIFE CYCLE: Ulva sp.
LIFE CYCLE: a Moss
LIFE CYCLE: Ferns
LIFE CYCLE: Selaginella