Cryptophyta

Question 1

What are Cryptophyta?

Answer 1

• microalgae
• unicellular
• flagellate (2, heterokont)
• elongated cell shape

Question 2

describe both flagella

Answer 2

Question 3

do Chryptophyta have scales such as Haptophyta?

Answer 3

• they have scales
• they are not covering the cell wall
• they are covering flagella

Question 4

what Phyla? What kind of view on the cell?

Answer 4

1. left: ventral
2. middle: lateral
3. apical

Question 5

what happens here?

Answer 5

• if you look at a Haptpthypa from apical or ventral view you can see a groove

Question 6

what is a nucleomorph? specific for what phyla?

Answer 6

• Cryptophyta
• organelle
• represents the vestigial nucleus of a photosynthetic, eukaryotic endosymbiont
• has been incorporated into the heterotrophic ancestor of the Cryptophytes

Question 7

what structure is there to see?
describe its features

Answer 7

• nucleopmorph

Question 8

where is a nucleomorph located?

Answer 8

• in periplastidial compartment