taxonomy: wtf

[jeezy]

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Do questions like this actually appear on the DAT? Does anyone know which one is not like the other? If so, please tell me how you study it (i can look them up when i review, but unless they use the same options on the DAT, i'll be screwed)

- zygomycota
- ascomycota
- basidiomycota
- myxomycota
- all similar

 

[Anemone]

Do questions like this actually appear on the DAT? Does anyone know which one is not like the other? If so, please tell me how you study it (i can look them up when i review, but unless they use the same options on the DAT, i'll be screwed)

- zygomycota
- ascomycota
- basidiomycota
- myxomycota
- all similar

the fungi are ABZ
oomycota acrasioomycota myxomycota are the plasmodial cellular and water slime molds and are protists.
good luck with the hyphae mycelia coenocitic septae crap..thats basically memorization.

 

[Mstoothlady2012]

Do questions like this actually appear on the DAT? Does anyone know which one is not like the other? If so, please tell me how you study it (i can look them up when i review, but unless they use the same options on the DAT, i'll be screwed)

- zygomycota
- ascomycota
- basidiomycota
- myxomycota
- all similar

I feel you! I am in the same dilemma....tried to memorize but I just cant! so i left taxonomy/classification & ecology part of biology & moved on to other sections...I will memorize that like 2 days before the real DAT

 

[jeezy]

the fungi are ABZ
oomycota acrasioomycota myxomycota are the plasmodial cellular and water slime molds and are protists.
good luck with the hyphae mycelia coenocitic septae crap..thats basically memorization.

i've bolded the part that confuses me, please explain

and howd u know the slime molds thing? did you do the same question before.. do ou have a checklist of things to learn.. or have you been doing research for 3 years?

 

[Anemone]

i've bolded the part that confuses me, please explain

and howd u know the slime molds thing? did you do the same question before.. do ou have a checklist of things to learn.. or have you been doing research in this crap for 3 years?

i just have a good memory.

hyphae are cells of fungi that are the main modes of vegetative growth and are called mycelium when together.
coenocytic masses are multinucleate cells that occur in fungi through multiple nuclear divisions..mycelium in which the hyphae dont have septae(that partition the hyphae into discrete cells) are called coenocytic

ABZ was my mnemonic for fungi when I studied for the DAT.
Ascomycota (acrasiomycota is a longer word, thats how i remembered this)
Basidiomycota
Zygomycota

 

[jeezy]

thanks..

how did you ever come across the info in the first place? kaplan covers the kingdoms in a broad overview with no mention of phyla, divisions, etc

 

[Bob Faraples]

thanks..

how did you ever come across the info in the first place? kaplan covers the kingdoms in a broad overview with no mention of phyla, divisions, etc

I think destroyer hits on those. And then there's always textbooks (where I looked it up).

 

[poc91nc]

Just to add a few things...

acrasiomycota are the cellular slime mold ("multi-cellular" with no coenocytic forms)

myxomycota (are the plasmodial slime mold and therefore has coenocytic forms when it aggregates)

oomycota (water mold, cell wall made of cellulose rather than chitin and is diploid dominant)

Ascomycota (sac fungi, bakers yeast is an example)
Zygomycota (bread mold is an example)
Basidiomycota (club fungi, mushrooms are an example)

 

[poc91nc]

thanks..

how did you ever come across the info in the first place? kaplan covers the kingdoms in a broad overview with no mention of phyla, divisions, etc

This is where the blue book fails. As for fungi...I learned more about it after I went through the achiever tests. If it's in achiever...I think it's fair game for the real deal (especially the bio). Achiever really forces you to hit those textbooks to work on your weak points.

 

[Anemone]

EK bio has it,too.

 

[jeezy]

I think destroyer hits on those. And then there's always textbooks (where I looked it up).

are there more subject areas that we are missing here.. like phyla outside of fungi/protist or are these particularly important?

 

[jeezy]

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[Lonely Sol]

thanks..

how did you ever come across the info in the first place? kaplan covers the kingdoms in a broad overview with no mention of phyla, divisions, etc

Yea, No offense to kaplan books but as far as DAT goes, they are really broad and vague. They teach you what you should've learned in high school, but fail to mention college stuff at all. Personally, i hate the book and refuse to look at because its not worth the time!

 

[hokie4life]

EK bio has it,too.

did u already take the DAT? did you find that the EK book was enough to prepare you for the phyla kingdom stuff? I have it too and am trying to figure out if it's worth the time to go through it or if I need to get barrons for bio just for this classification stuff?

 

[Anemone]

did u already take the DAT? did you find that the EK book was enough to prepare you for the phyla kingdom stuff? I have it too and am trying to figure out if it's worth the time to go through it or if I need to get barrons for bio just for this classification stuff?

yes, i already took it. get schaums for classification taxo evo ecology fungi plants. use kaplan and EK for basics.