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Multicell Cholorophycean Green Algae Pandorina Volvox Scenedesmus Hydrodictyon Oedogonium Charophycean Green Algae -Klebsormidium -Spirogyra -Closterium -Staurastrum -Cosmarium -Coleochaete -Chara. Colonial. Synapomorphies? Synplesiomorphies? How is morphology achieved?
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Multicell Cholorophycean Green Algae • Pandorina • Volvox • Scenedesmus • Hydrodictyon • Oedogonium • Charophycean Green Algae • -Klebsormidium • -Spirogyra • -Closterium • -Staurastrum • -Cosmarium • -Coleochaete • -Chara Colonial Synapomorphies? Synplesiomorphies? How is morphology achieved? Life cycle? Filamentous Klebsormidiales Zygnematales Coleochaetales Charales
Multicell Cholorophycean Green Algae • Pandorina • Volvox • Scenedesmus • Hydrodictyon Colonial
Multicell Cholorophycean Green Algae • Pandorina • Volvox • Scenedesmus • Hydrodictyon Colonial
Multicell Cholorophycean Green Algae • Pandorina • Volvox • Scenedesmus • Hydrodictyon Colonial
Multicell Cholorophycean Green Algae • Pandorina • Volvox • Scenedesmus • Hydrodictyon Colonial
Multicell Cholorophycean Green Algae • Oedogonium Filamentous
Charophycean Green Algae -Klebsormidium Klebsormidiales
Charophycean Green Algae -Spirogyra -Closterium -Staurastrum -Cosmarium Zygnematales
Charophycean Green Algae -Spirogyra -Closterium -Staurastrum -Cosmarium • Desmids: • Mostly freshwater • 3 planes of symmetry (WOW!) • One MAJOR plane of symmetry • Two semicells joined at an isthmus • Reproduction: • Asexual: division along the isthmus, each new cell regrows its sister semicell. • Sexual: conjugation, with dormant zygote Zygnematales
Charophycean Green Algae -Spirogyra -Closterium -Staurastrum -Cosmarium Zygnematales
Charophycean Green Algae -Spirogyra -Closterium -Staurastrum -Cosmarium Zygnematales
Charophycean Green Algae -Spirogyra -Closterium -Staurastrum -Cosmarium Zygnematales
Charophycean Green Algae -Coleochaete Coleochaetales
Charophycean Green Algae -Chara Charales