Diagram of a longitudinal section of a cryptophyte
Sieve elements of Nereocystis
Diagram of a brown algal cell
Pyrenoids of a brown algal cell
Chloroplast of Fucus
Electron micrograph of a cryptophyte
-The large ejectosomes seen here line the wall of the gullet
-Part of a smaller ejectosome is visible just beneath the plasmalemma on the lower left side of the cell
A Cryptophyte eyespot
-These eyespots may be one or several layers thick
- they are located with in the chloroplast but not close to the flagella
- the eyespot operates by either intercepting light (shading) or reflecting light (increasing the illumination) onto the photoreceptor pigment
- which is probably localized in either the plasma membrane or chloroplast membranes over the eyespot
Interphase nucleus and chromosomes of a
dinoflagellate
-The chromosomes lack histones, are permanently condensed and have a characteristic banded appearance
-There is a large nucleolus within the nucleus
Interphase nuclei of a green alga and a
euglenophyte
-Note the condense chromosomes of the euglenophyte
Eyespot of a euglenophyte
-The eyespot is composed of loosely packed globules lying outside the chloroplast, next to the reservoir, opposite of the flagellar swelling
- the swelling is usually on the longer, emergent flagellum and is thought to be the site of the photoreceptor pigment
Euglena
- Diagrammatic longitudinal section
Euglena longitudinal section
- Note the distinctive outer covering, the pellicle
Outer view of a haptophyte
- The cell surface is completely encased in coccoliths , special organic scales encrusted with calcium carbonate
Electron micrograph of Chrysochromulina
- This photograph shows the two flagella and a haptonema, the latter lightly coiled at the tip
Several cross-sections through a haptonema
- Note the outer sheath of three concentric membranes and the inner circle of 6 or 7 microtubules
Sections through parts of chloroplasts from 3 algal
groups-upper photo: chrysochromulina(haptophyte)
-PER surrounds chloroplast
- chloroplast envelope has 2 membranes
-Middle photo: dinobryon(chrysophyte)
- has a girdle lamella
- PER surrounds chloroplast
- chrloroplast envelope has 2 membranes
- lower photo: trachelomonas(euglenophyte)
- chloroplast envelope has 3 membranes
-All three groups share stacking of thylakoids in three
Chlamydomonas
Upper: diagrammatic
Lower: electron micrograph
Chloroplast of a desmid
-Note the pronounced stacking of the thylakoids
-The 2 membranes of the chloroplast envelope and the scattered light areas containing fibrils of DNA
- green algal chloroplasts are similar in many respects to those of high plants
Chloroplast of a ‘higher plant’
-Compare to previous slide
- note the arrangements of the thylakoids into grana stacks (dark areas) which are connected by stromalamellae
- the scattered areas containing chloroplast DNA (in between the grana stacks) (NA)
- RUBISCO in higher plants is found in the stroma of the chloroplast (S)
Portions of sections through chloroplasts of
the Chlorophyta
-This is the only algal phylum in which starch is stored in the chloroplast
-It may be in a sheath surrounding the pyrenoid and/or in other parts of the chloroplast
Section through the eyespot of
Chlamydomonas
-These eyespots may be one or several layers thick
- they are located within the chloroplast but not close to the flagella
- the eyespot operates by intercepting (shading) and/or reflecting (increasing the illumination) light onto the photoreceptor pigment, which is localized in either the plasma or chloroplast membranes over the eyespot
- note the stacking of the thylakoids
Location of chloroplast DNA in the Phaeophyta
Left: is a perpendicular section through a disc-shaped chloroplast, showing sections of the ring nucleoidbeneath the girdle lamella, at both ends
Right: is a section parallel to the face of the same chloroplast, showing the entire ring of DNA