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What is one important difference between chlamydomonas and volvox?
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Chlamydamonas are only single-celled algae whereas Volvox can have between 500-50,000 cells
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An example of colonial protists?
volvox
How many individual cells make up a Volvox colony?
500-50,000 individual cells
Are green algae multicellular?
Green Algae is unicellular because it only grows on non-vascular plants which are plants with no tubes to carry nu trains and oxygen.
Describe an organism that exists as a group of cells?
An organism existing as a group of Cells is Volvox (an alga)
Which protists surrounds and engulfs its food?
The protist amoeba does. I think this process is called exocytosis.
What is the difference between volvox and other protozoa?
Volvox may be considered to be both unicellular and multicellular. It resembles the one-celled organism "Chlamydomonas." Volvox also has characteristics from those of a colony because most of the cells are similiar. It also has specialized reproductive cells and the two ends of the colony are different.
What are some examples of a uni cellular organisms?
Answer: Stentor, Anabaena, Volvox, Oedogonium, Chorella, Chlamydomonas, E.
Describe the structures of Chlamydomonas and Volvox and contrast how they reproduce?
Chlamydomonas are single-celled organism with 2 apical flagella which are absorbed before cell division. Volvox are multicellular organisms that have 2 cell types. They are composed of about 2000 somatic cells that resemble Chlamydomonas and form a spherical shell that also moves the organism using the flagella. Inside the shell resides gonidia which can divide to form a new organism. Also, the somatic cells that resemble Chlamydomonas can not divide like Chlamydomonas, thus the importance of the gonidia.
Is algae unicellular or multicellular?
Depending up on its form an alga may be unicellular like Chlamydomonas to multi-cellular like Volvox. More higher forms of algae are filamentous and even branched.
What advantages does multicellular volvox have over unicellular chlamydomonas?
the family of volvocine green algae is remarkably well suited to studying the evolution of multicellularity. The volvocine algae include both unicellular and multicellular organisms that are closely related and exist today (Kirk 1998). The unicellular species in this group is named Chlamydomonasreinhardtii (hereafter Chlamydomonas), and its best-studied, close multicellular relative is a species named Volvox carteri (hereafter Volvox). What are these organisms like? Chlamydomonas are single-celled organisms with two apical flagella, which they use for sensory transduction and for moving around in a wet environment (Figure 2F). But Chlamydomonas unicells don't always have these flagella. They resorb them in preparation for cell division, so the Chlamydomonas life cycle consists of alternation between a swimming phase during which the cells grow, and an aflagellate/immotile reproductive phase during which they replicate their DNA and divide. When Chlamydomonas cells divide, they use what is called a multiple fission mode of division: They usually undergo sequential rounds of DNA replication and mitosis, and produce four, eight, or sixteen unicellular, asexual daughter cells. In Volvox, these two functions - swimming and reproduction - have been segregated into distinct cell types (Figure 2A-E; Kirk 1998).Cells of one type, called somatic cells, number about 2,000 and closely resemble Chlamydomonas unicells. Somatic cells are small, have two flagella, and reside in a monolayer at the surface of a sphere of gelatinous extracellular matrix (ECM). Their job is to swim and keep Volvox in the light so that it can photosynthesize. Unlike Chlamydomonas unicells, Volvox somatic cells cannot divide, and this distinction is very important - Volvox has multicellularity with division of labor because its somatic cells lost the capacity for reproduction. Reproduction is carried out by a second type of specialized cell, called the gonidium. Gonidia are large and do not have flagella (see Figure 2E), so they cannot swim (and must therefore rely on somatic cells for motility), but they can divide. Each of the approximately sixteen gonidia has the capacity to generate a new individual through a series of ten to eleven embryonic cell divisions that generate all the cells present in the next generation. Is this sort of division of labor unique to Volvox? Probably not. Some scientists believe that the segregation of somatic functions (like swimming) and reproduction into distinct cell types was one of the first key steps in the evolution of multicellularity in animals as well (Buss 1987; King 2004).
What is the important of volvox?
the importance of the volvox is that it helps by eating bacteria. bateria makes us sick. so the volvox basically eats sickness!!! lisa baylor
What organelle plays a vital role in a volvox's ability to undergo photosynthesis?
the chloroplast
Why volvox eukaryotic?
It has an organized nucleus.It has membranous organells
What are the differences between the euglena ameba and volvox?
An euglena has a flagellum; a volvox does not. A volvox has a gonidium; an euglena doesn't. An euglena has a stigma; a volvoxdoes not.a volvox has a lot of characteristics an euglena does not, and an euglena has a lot of characteristics a volvox does not. Unfortuneatly, I do not know the rest of the other unique characteristics that a volvox, or an euglena has that are different from each other. You must go to google to find the rest. Or bing, or ask.com.
What are medical uses of volvox?
uses of volvox
Is volvox a bacteria?
Volvox is NOT made up of an bacteria
How does your body protect from Volvox?
Volvox is not a human pathogen.
