Prepared by:

Dr Murtaza Hasan
• Single celled green alga
• Grows in ponds, ditches, and wet soil
• believed to be primitive
• reproduces asexually by producing
ZOOSPORES
• Reproduces sexually by producing
ZYGOTES
Parts of
 The zoospores grow into mature
These daughter cells
haploid cells, completing
develop flagella and
the asexual life cycle.
cell walls and then
emerge as swimming
zoospores from the wall
of the parent cell that
had enclosed them.

Asexual
Reproduction

A mature cell of Chlamydomonas

is a haploid

It resorbs its flagella and then divides twice

by mitosis, forming four cells (more in
some species)
When the zygote breaks dormancy,
They eventually grow into mature cells.
Meiosis produces four haploid
ndividuals (two of each mating type)
That emerges from the coat.

MEIOSIS
This diploid zygote A mature cell of
secretes a durable Chlamydomonas is a
coat that protects Haploid cell.
the cell against
harsh conditions

Sexual
Reproduction
MITOSIS
Fusion of the
isogametes occurs slowly,
forming a diploid zygote.

After their release, gametes from Within the wall of the parent cell,
opposite mating types (designated mitosis produces many haploid
+ and - ) pair off and cling together. Gametes.
Some added notes:

• ISOGAMY –literally means “a marriage of equals”

• SPOROPHYTE –diploid individual that produce
individual cells called spores (zoospores)
• GAMETOPHYTE –haploid individual that produces
gametes
• HETEROMORPHIC Generations
–sporophytes and gametophytes are structurally
different
• ISOMORPHIC Generations
–sporophytes and gametophytes look alike, although
they are different in chromosome number.