Chapter 3: Sex and Nuclei: Eukaryotes

Review Questions for Chapter 3

Introduction

• Characteristics of Eukaryotes
• Tree Overview of Eukaryotes
• Early Evolution of Eukaryotic Cell
• Morphology Mapped on Eukaryote Tree
• Diversity of Eukaryotes
• Slide Presentation on Biogeography and Diversity of Free-living Heterotrophic Flagellates
• Mitosis in Eukaryotes
• Eukaryotic vs. Bacterial DNA Size Comparison

Symbiosis and Endosymbiosis

• The Nucleus
• Megasequencing of Organelle Genomes
• Review Articles on Organelle Origins
• Did the First Eukaryotes Really Lack Mitochondria?
• Medline Abstract Review of Protist Mitochondrial Genome Structure and Gene Content
• Up-to-Date Listing of Sequenced Genomes
• Introduction to Basal Eukaryotes
• Protist Image Database
• Algal Microscopic Images
• International Fossil Algae Association Website
• Bionet Discussion Group on Protists
• Reclinomonas americana mitochondrial DNA resembles Ancestral Eubacterial Genome
• Images of Reclinomonas americana
• Michael LaBarbera's Lecture Notes on Eukaryote Features
• Endosymbiosis
• Secondary Endosymbiosis
• Evidence that Euglena Chloroplasts are Derived from Symbiosis with Green Alga
• Cyanophora, a Unicellular Alga with Cyanelle Plastids Resembling Cyanobacteria
• The Mystery of Why Human Parasites, Plasmodium and Toxoplasma, have Plastids
• There are Still No Dinoflagellate Plastids Sequenced
• Buchnera, Symbiotic Bacteria in Aphid Gut are Nearly Endosymbionts

Eukaryotes in the Fossil Record

• Fossil Record of Eukaryotes
• Approximate Origin of Eukaryotes in Precambrian
• Old Eukaryote Fossils known as Acritarchs
• Guide to Acritarchs and the Field of Palynology
• Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments

The Evolution of Sex

• Lecture Notes on Evolution of Sex

The Classification of Eukaryotes

• Journey into Phylogenetic Systematics
• Good Lecture Notes on Cladistics (Phylogenetic Systematics)
• Glossary of Phylogenetic Terms
• Another Glossary of Phylogenetic Terms

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