Ch. 24 Quiz

Question 1

Rhizopus stolonifera is a zygomycete sometimes called black bread mold because if often uses bread as a food source. This fungus is a

Answer 1

Saprotroph

Question 2

Biotrophs sometimes insert a small, peg-like portion of a cell into a host cell. The portion of the fungal cell inserted is a

Answer 2

Haustorium

Question 3

The major type of fungal vegetative body is

Answer 3

Filamentous and eukaryotic

Question 4

All of the following can be substrates or environments for some type of fungi except

Answer 4

Fungi can live in or on all of the above

Question 5

Slime molds are placed in the Kingdom Myceteae along with the fungi, but differ from them because the vegetative body

Answer 5

A, b, and c

• lacks distinct cells
• lacks a cell wall
• engulfs its food

Question 6

If you examine the stalk of a mushroom, you would find

Answer 6

Compact hyphae only

Question 7

Which one of the following is not a fungal compound?

Answer 7

Cellulose

Question 8

Basidiomycetes have

Answer 8

Perforated septa

Question 9

The basidium produced by basidiomycetes is analogous to what structures produced by ascomycetes?

Answer 9

Ascus

Question 10

In the past, fungi were classified in the plant kingdom mainly because they

Answer 10

Produce cell walls