Chapter 10.3 Fungi

Question 1

What is mycology

Answer 1

The study of fungi

Question 2

How was fungi discovered

Answer 2

Alexander flemming was studying petri dishes and in most of them there was a bunch of growth except for one. That one had penicillin

Question 3

When did that discovery of penicillin take place

Answer 3

1928

Question 4

What do eukaryotic fungi contain

Answer 4

Nucleus, ER, golgi and mitochondria

Question 5

Where were they common

Answer 5

They were common in myths because of their peculiar properties and strange morphology

Question 6

Do plants and fungi share much in common

Answer 6

False, they share very little in common

Question 7

Which thing do fungi have more in common with

Answer 7

Animals

Question 8

Are fungi decomposers

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

What is bioremediation

Answer 9

The use of fungi to decompose pollutant in the soil

Question 10

What are two forms of fungi

Answer 10

Yeast and mold

Question 11

What is yeast

Answer 11

Unicellular

Replicate asexually

Common in the production of food and wine

Question 12

What is mold

Answer 12

Filamentous threadlike

Replicates sexually or asexually

Question 13

What are yeast’s structure

Answer 13

They’re single-celled fungi

Question 14

What is the honey mushroom

Answer 14

Largest living organism on earth

Question 15

What is the hypha(plural: hyphae)

Answer 15

A filamentous network that supports the fungus

Cells contain a cell wall of chitin

Collective network is the mycelium

Question 16

What are the cells of the fungi aranged in

Answer 16

A hyphae

Question 17

What is the underground hyphae

Answer 17

Underneath the soil

Allows for nutrients aquisition growth of the fungus and production of the fruiting body

Question 18

What is the collective network of hyphae called?

Answer 18

Mycelium

Question 19

What is a mycorrhizae

Answer 19

A symbiotic relationship between the mycelium and plant roots

Question 20

What does myco mean

Answer 20

Mushroom

Question 21

What does rhiza mean

Answer 21

Roots

Question 22

What does a mycorrizae allow

Answer 22

For the growth and life of many mushrooms

Question 23

What is a saprobic fungi

Answer 23

A fungi that has a relationship with dead organic matter(leaf litter, rotting wood)

Question 24

What is a parasitic fungi

Answer 24

It infects and kills insects

Ex; cordyceps

Question 25

What are all the names for the fruiting body

Answer 25

Fruiting body, cap or pileus

Question 26

What is the fruiting body

Answer 26

The reproductive function of a fungus

Vary signifigantly between species

Question 27

What are the gills/lamellae

Answer 27

Thin ribbon-like projection

Site of spore production

Tissue layer of spore production is called the hymenium

Question 28

What is the stalk(stripe)

Answer 28

Stem or stalk-like feature that supports the cap

Varying height aids in spore dispersal

Question 29

What is the annulus or partial veil

Answer 29

Ring of tissue below the cap and gills covers hymenium throughout development and detatched once hymenium matures

Question 30

How does the asexual production work

Answer 30

Fruiting body produces spores that are carried by wind or water to new locations, the spore lands and starts new colony

Question 31

How does the sexual reproduction of a mushroom work

Answer 31

Hyphae from 2 colonies grow close together and share genetic information

Question 32

What are the classifications of fungi

Answer 32

Thread-like

Sac

Club

Imperfect

Question 33

What is a thread-like

Answer 33

600 species

Produce spores in their thread-like hyphae

Question 34

What is a sac fungi

Answer 34

30,000+ species of fungi(yeast, truffles)

Produce spores in structures that look like sacs

Question 35

What is a club fungi

Answer 35

25,000+ species of mushrooms, bracket fungi, plant parasites, puffballs

Produce spores in structures that look like clubs

Question 36

What is an imperfect fungi

Answer 36

25,000 species of fungi

Ex; penicillium

Not known to reproduce sexually