(5) Fungi

Question 1

Pulmonary disease found in the southeastern United States caused by infection with Blastomyces dermatitidis

Answer 1

Blastomycosis

Question 2

Asexual fungi that have a fragment off a septate hyphae

Answer 2

Arthroconidia

Question 3

Organism that absorb nutrients from remnants of dead organisms

Answer 3

Saprobes

Question 4

Organism that gets their nutrients from living plants and animals

Answer 4

Haustoria

Question 5

Fungi that produce two types of thalli

Answer 5

Dimorphic

Question 6

Strong, flexible nitrogenous polysaccharides found in fungal cell walls

Answer 6

Chitin

Question 7

Vegetative body of a fungus

Answer 7

Thallus

Question 8

Asexual fungi that buds of the parent cell

Answer 8

Blastoconidia

Question 9

Fungi that cause disease

Answer 9

Mycosis

Question 10

Asexual fungi that are not enclosed in a sac

Answer 10

Conidiospore

Question 11

Long, branched tubular filaments off of a thallus

Answer 11

Hyphae

Question 12

Hyphae that lack cross walls

Answer 12

Aseptate hyphae (coenocytic hyphae)

Question 13

Hyphae characterized by the presence of cross walls

Answer 13

Septate hyphae

Question 14

Term for several opportunistic diseases caused by infection with Candida species

Answer 14

Candidiasis

Question 15

Asexual fungi that are enclosed in a sac

Answer 15

Sporangiospore

Question 16

Microorganisms that use organic compounds for both energy and carbon

Answer 16

Chemoheterotrophic

Question 17

Mass of tangled hyphae