lab 8

• Biodiversity
• Goal: better understand the differences in different types of living organisms
• Bacteria: single cell, no nuclei, mostly heterotrophic, some decomposers, parasites, mutualists, some autotrophs, chemoautotrophs
• Bacilli shape, coxus shape, spirilli shape
• Protists: large size, single or multicellular, membrane bound organelles, complex DNA and nucleus
• Mix of parasites, autotrophs, heterotrophs, primarily aquatic
• Plants: lower plants are primitive and simplistic and upper plants
• Lower: things like moss
• Higher: plants like bushes and flowers and such
• most are photosynthetic
• Materials: microscopes, prepared slides