Ch 31 Fungi Flashcards
What are 3 Features of Enzymes
-Secrete Enzymes to acquire nutrients
-More closely related to animals than plants
-Single Cells or Multicellular
How was early fungi classified
Morphology
3 Main Monophyletics groups of fungi are
Glomeromycota
Neocallimastiogomycota
Blastocladiomycota
What are the cell walls of fungi made of
Chitin
What are fungal filaments called
Hyphae
How many total Monophyletic groups of fungi
6
How do fungi reproduce
Sexual or asexual
What are fungal reproductive cells called
spores
What term describes ALL fungi
Heterotrophic
during Fungal Mitosis what happens to the spindle apparatus
forms inside nucleus
What are mycorrhizae
Associations between fungi and the roots of plants
Fungi that live in the leaf & stem system of plants are called what
Endophytes
Most lichen is from what Phylum
Ascomycetes
Muschrooms & puffballs are examples of
Basidiomycetes or Basidiocarp
What is the primary function of basidiocarp
to disperse spores
Where does sexual reproduction occur in ascomycetes
Ascus
What is the most widely used organism in Biological studies
Saccharomyes Cerevisiae
what are the asexual spores produced by ascomycetes
Conidia
What group produces flagellated spores
Chytrids
What are Ascomycete fungi that are single celled & reproduce by budding
Yeasts
