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Question 1

how do yeast cells reproduce?

Answer 1

budding (asexual)

Question 2

Are fungi multicellular/unicellular and eukaryotic/prokarytic

Answer 2

multicellular (except yeast), eukaryotic

Question 3

Is fungi autotrophic?

Answer 3

No

Question 4

Fungi are saprophytic: what does that mean?

Answer 4

absorb wall through cell walls

Question 5

What is the cell wall of fungi made of?

Answer 5

Chitin

Question 6

How do fungi reproduce?

Answer 6

Spores, asexually or sexually

Question 7

Hypha

Answer 7

tubular strand of cytoplasm common to fungi

Question 8

Mycelium

Answer 8

mass of hyphae

Question 8

Coenocytic

Answer 8

non-septate multinucleate strand of hyphae

Question 9

Septum

Answer 9

cross-wall deliminating sections of hyphae

Question 10

Plasmogomy

Answer 10

fusion of cytoplasm

Question 11

Karyogomy

Answer 11

fusion of nuclei

Question 12

Heterokaryotic

Answer 12

haploid nuclei of two different mating types in cytoplasm

Question 13

Dikaryotic

Answer 13

haploid nuclei of two different mating types paired off; each set separated from other pairs by septum

Question 14

What is the fruiting body of the fungus?

Answer 14

Mushroom

Question 15

What are the 5 phyla of fungi?

Answer 15

1. Chytridiomycota
2. Zygomycota
3. Glomeromycota
4. ascomycota
5. basidiomycota

Question 16

What type of spores does glomeromycota have?

Answer 16

Large asexual spores

Question 17

What type of spores does Chytridiomycota have?

Answer 17

Spores with flagella (zoospores)

Question 18

Zygomycota common type

Answer 18

Black mold (parasitic)

Question 19

Zygomycota reproduction

Answer 19

asexual: spores formed in sporangium
sexual: zygospores formed in zygosporangium

Question 20

What is a common mycorrhizal component?

Answer 20

zygomycota, basidiomycota

Question 21

where can zygomycota grow?

Answer 21

flies and cow dung

Question 22

What mold decompeses strawberries?

Answer 22

Rhizopus (zygomycota)

Question 23

Ascomycota common name

Answer 23

Sac Fungi

Question 24

Ascomycota reproduction

Answer 24

asexual: conidia on conidiophores sexual: ascospores formed in asci on an ascocarp

Question 25

what is the fungal component of lichens?

Answer 25

ascomycota

Question 26

conidiophore in some cases is also known as the

Answer 26

hyphae

Question 27

what is the ascocarp?

Answer 27

fruiting body

Question 28

4 common ascomycota

Answer 28

1. truffles 2. morels 3. imperfect molds 4. yeasts

Question 29

What are the imperfects?

Answer 29

Majority of molds with no known type of sexual reproduction

Question 30

Common name for basidiomycota

Answer 30

club fungi

Question 31

Basidiomycota reproduction

Answer 31

asexual: conidia on conidiophores sexual: bosidiophores formed on bosidium on a basidiocarp

Question 32

6 common basidiomycota

Answer 32

1. gilled mushroom 2. puffballs 3. stinkhorns 4. shelf fungi 5. birdsnest fungi 6. ergot

Question 33

how does reproduction occur for mushrooms and puffballs?

Answer 33

wind carries spores

Question 34

how do stinkhorns reproduce

Answer 34

attract flies from smell, flies carry spores

Question 35

how do shelf fungi reproduce

Answer 35

fruiting body has spores on its underside which falls with gravity

Question 36

how does birdsnest fungi reproduce

Answer 36

raindrops splash egg out of nest

Question 37

What is a lichen?

Answer 37

symbiotic relationship between fungus (usual ascomycota) and green algae or cyanobacteria

Question 38

3 types of lichen

Answer 38

crustose, foliose, and fruticose

Question 39

crustose

Answer 39

nonlayered and adhere closely to whatever they are growing on

Question 40

foliose

Answer 40

flat and layered, leaf like, can peel off surface

Question 41

fruticose

Answer 41

grow upright, look branchy

Question 42

Mychorrizae

Answer 42

mutualistic symbiotic relationship between plant roots and fungal hyphae

Question 43

are fungi decomposers?

Answer 43

YES!