MONDAY 10 MARCH

THE SEPARATE HOUR

DIALOGUE 16: AMOEBAE AND RHIZARIA.  This dialogue will include the following kingdoms and all phyla of the CERCOZOAE and AMOEBOZOAE.  Please come prepared with the taxonomy of the two kingdoms and descriptions of the groups.  Also, read the Domain Eukarya and the Evolution of the Eukaryotic Supertree.  Be prepared to discuss the roles that the Amoebozoae and Rhizaria played in the construction of the supertree.

Concepts and Terms for Dialogue 16:  Please access the appropriate concepts and terms for the taxa covered today through the front pages of the kingdoms CERCOZOAE and AMOEBOZOAE.  Any of these terms could be used in the Game next Monday.

THE COMMON HOUR

GAME 7. Please come prepared with information from last week. The categories will be TAXONOMY, ANATOMY, PHYLOGENY.  As before, much of this information comes from the data sheets, Margulis & Schwartz (1998), Holt & Nelson (2001), The Origin (chapter 7), cultures, slides, and preserved specimens from the last week of class.   

WEDNESDAY 12  MARCH

THE SEPARATE HOUR

ACTIVITY 16: AMOEBAE AND RHIZARIA. Please look at the following cultures, slides, and preserved specimens.  Access sheets on the CERCOZOAE and AMOEBOZOAE.  Items in red are on demonstration.  All others are in your slide boxes.

1. Plasmodiophora. xs slide of infected plant
2. Radiolaria strew slides.
3. Foraminifera strew slides.
4. Nummulites: fossils.
5. Globigerina: wm slides of tests.
6. Pelomyxa: living, wm slide.
7. Amoeba: living; wm slide.
8. Entamoeba (Endamoeba): wm slides of trophozoites and cysts.
9. Arcella: living.
10. Difflugia: living.
11. Acanthamoeba: wm. slide.
12. Physarum: living (plate; perhaps another species with living mycelium of myxomycote), wm slide.
13. Stemonitis: dry, wm slide.
14. Dictydium: dry.
15. Lycogala: dry, slide (section of "fruiting body").
16. Arcyria: dry, wm slide of capillitium.
17. Hemitrichia: dry, wm slide of capillitium.
18. Dictyostelium: living (plate).

THE COMMON HOUR

DIALOGUE 17: FUNGI I. Introduction to the Fungi will include the Chytridiomycota, Microsporidiomycota, Zygomycota, Glomeromycota, and Ascomycota.   In order for this to be a rewarding exchange, you must come prepared with appropriate taxonomies and data sheets for the FUNGI.   Come to class with a description of the Fungi from the Tree of Life Project.   Be prepared to discuss it. 

• Holt. A Vital Science.  
• Holt. A Tale of Two Stones.
• Darwin. Origin, chapter 8

Concepts and Terms for Dialogue 17:  Please access the appropriate concepts and terms for the taxa covered today through the front page of the kingdom FUNGI.  Any of these terms could be used in the Game next Monday.

FRIDAY 14 MARCH

THE SEPARATE HOUR

ACTIVITY 17: FUNGI I. Please look at the following cultures, slides, and preserved specimens.  Access sheets on the Chytridiomycota,  Zygomycota, and Ascomycota to guide you in your observations.  Items in red are on demonstration.  All others are in your slide boxes.

1. Nosema: infected tissue section.
2. living chytrids growing on hemp seeds.
3. Allomyces: living (plate); wm slide.
4. Synchytrium: infected plant sections.
5. Rhizopus: living; w.m. slide
6. Mucor: living
7. Pilobolus: living
8. Saccharomyces: living; w.m. slide
9. Eupenicillium: living; w.m. slide with cleistothecia
10. Microsphaera: living on lilac leaves; w.m. slide with cleistothecia
11. Sordaria: living
12. Claviceps: dry; sclerotium long. section slide
13. Morchella: preserved; ascocarp section slide
14. Peziza: preserved; ascocarp section slide

THE COMMON HOUR

UNKNOWN 5:  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.

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