THE SEPARATE HOUR

DIALOGUE 14 We will continue with taxa from the supergroup CHROMALVEOLATA.  This time we will discuss the phylum Apicomplexa within the kingdom ALVEOLATAE and begin to discuss taxa within the kingdom HETEROKONTAE.  Come prepared to discuss and ask questions about the following phyla: Apicomplexata, Opalinida, Labyrinthulomorpha, and Chrysophyta.  In order for this to be a rewarding exchange, you must come prepared with appropriate taxonomies and data sheets from the kingdoms ALVEOLATAE and HETEROKONTAE.  

Concepts and Terms for Dialogue 14:  Please access the appropriate concepts and terms for the taxa covered today through the front pages of the kingdoms ALVEOLATAE and HETEROKONTAE.  Any of these terms could be used in the next Game.

THE COMMON HOUR

GAME 5. Please come prepared with information from last week. The categories will be TAXONOMY, ANATOMY, PHYLOGENY.  As before, much of this information comes from the Taxa of Life website, Holt (2007), The Origin (chapter 6), cultures, slides, and preserved specimens from the last week of class.

THE SEPARATE HOUR

ACTIVITY 14: Please look at the following cultures, slides, herbarium sheets, and preserved specimens.  Access sheets on the Apicomplexa; Opalinida, Chrysophyta, Xanthophyta, and Oomycota to guide you in your observations. 

1. Gregarina: living, wm slide.
2. Monocystis: wm slide in situ from earthworms.
3. Eimeria: liver section slide.
4. Plasmodium: slides of  blood smear (several species); ookinetes; oocysts; and sporozoites.
5. Toxoplasma: slide of blood smear and small intestine.
6. Babesia: slide of blood smear.
7. Opalina: wm slide.
8. Ochromonas: living; wm slide.
9. Synura: living.
10. Silicoflagellates, wm slide.
11. Tribonema: living, wm slide.
12. Vaucheria: living; wm slide.
13. Saprolegnia: living; wm slide
14. Cystopus (Albugo): xs slide infected plant 
15. Peronospora: xs slide infected plant

THE COMMON HOUR

DIALOGUE 15. will include the following phyla: Raphidiophyta, Xanthophyta, Eustigmatophyta, Bacillariophyta, Phaeophyta, Bicosoecida, Actinophryida, and Oomycota.   In order for this to be a rewarding exchange, you must come prepared with appropriate taxonomies and data sheets for the HETEROKONTAE.   Come to class with a description of the Heterokonts (=Stramenopiles) from the Tree of Life Project.   Be prepared to discuss it.  In addition to the web materials, read the following in preparation for the dialogue:

• Holt. Descartes' Dream.  
• Darwin. Origin Chapter 7.

Concepts and Terms for Dialogue 15:  Please access the appropriate concepts and terms for the taxa covered today through the front page of the kingdom HETEROKONTAE.  Any of these terms could be used in the Game next Monday.

FRIDAY 29 FEBRUARY

THE SEPARATE HOUR

ACTIVITY 15: Please look at the following cultures, slides, herbarium sheets, and preserved specimens.  Access sheets on the Bacillariophyta, Phaeophyta, and the Actinophryida to guide you in your observations.  

1. Diatomaceous earth.
2. Diatoms: wm slide mixed and stained, reference slide.
3. Navicula: living.
4. Thalassiosira: living
5. Ectocarpus: living; wm slide.
6. Sphacelaria: living.
7. Dictyota: living; blade xs slide; herbarium sheets.
8. Laminaria: preserved; blade xs slide.
9. Macrocystis: stipe xs slide.
10. Agaricus: preserved.
11. Ascophyllum: preserved.
12. Fucus: preserved; thallus xs slides.
13. Assorted herbarium sheets of other Phaeophytes.  Be able to recognize order and general anatomy.
14. Actinosphaerium. living and wm.

THE COMMON HOUR

UNKNOWN 4:  Key out the unknown alga.  Complete the algal data sheet before you attempt the key.  Also, be sure to to include a drawing that indicates at least two key characters of the genus.

THE FIRST REWRITES OF PROJECT 1 ARE DUE TODAY BY 4 P.M.

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