Diversity of Life
1.  What is an individual? 2.  Figure 1.7 from Text: Examples of a unitary and a modular organism

3.  Population =  ___________________________

4.  Community = populations that occur together 5.  Picture of Crescent Lake:  What communities do you see here?
6.  Pictures:  Pitcher plants in Tannersville Cranberry Bog and forest floor with wintergreen plants. 7.  Ecosystem:  ___________________________ 8.  Species concept:   ___________________________ 9.  Figure 1.8.  A comparison of cladistic and phylogenetic analysis.
10.  Figure 1.9.  The 6 kingdoms and their evolutionary relationships

11. Archaea = Archaebacteria
 12.  Bacteria: ___________________________________________

13.  Protista = Protoctista

14.  Table 1.9: Kingdom Protista - Focus on following Phyla & Key features 15.  Light micrographs - Diatom Diversity:  many shapes in glass
16.  Light micrograph - Aulacoseira sp. - Filamentous diatom from Pocono Creek
17.  Light micrograph - Volvox:  mothers & daughters
18:  Light micrographs:  Chlorophyta from Pocono Creek 19.  Light micrograph - Protozoan with a gut full of algae
20.  Light micrograph and drawing of Paramecium

21.  Fungi

22.  Table 1.11: Kingdom Fungi - focus on following Phyla (examples & key features)


23.  Graphic:  Examples of Ascomycota and Basidiomycota.

24.  Photos: Ascomycota (scarlet cup ascocarps, truffles and morel mushroom)
25.  Photos:  Basidiomycota (toadstool, shelf fungus, Stinkhorn)
26.  Common Pocono Fungi - Fig. 3.27: O&H


27.  Kingdom Plantae

28.  Table 1.10: Kingdom Plantae
Focus on the following Divisions (= Phyla): examples and key features 29.  Photograph:  Bryophyta = mosses Polytrichum commune 30.  Photograph:  Sphagnum  - moss that can engineer an environment
31.  Photograph:  Sphagnum is an important component of the Tannersville Cranberry Bog
32.  Pocono Fern Allies:  Figure 3.22: O & H
33.  Photo:  Lycophyta: club mosses or ground pines 34.  Photo -> Sphenophyta: horsetails - Equisetum
35.  Figure 3.22 O & H - Pocono Ferns: Pterophyta
36.  Photo of forest floor "sun-spot".
Ferns are an important part of the Pocono forest’s understory
37.  Anthophyta: examples of Pocono trees
Photographs of the following: 38.  Pocono herbacious vascular plants.  Photos of the following: 39.  Kingdom Animalia 40.  Table 1.12: Kingdom Animalia - focus on following phyla: examples & key features 41.  Insects:  _________________________________________
Graphic:  Plecoptera: Stoneflies (Pteronarcys sp.) From Merrit & Cummins, 1996.

42.  Graphic of predatory fish: pike.  How does this organism live: form follows function?

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43.  Graphic: Fish characteristic of riffles in PA:  O & H p. 134
44.  Photographs: black bear, squirrel, Canada goose, students in forest.
45.  Figure 1.10 in Jones:  Eukaryotic Life History Strategies