Chapter 21.3-4 (Protists to Fungi)

Question 1

acellular slime mold

Answer 1

a type of fungus-like protist that reproduces using spores and forms slimy masses of amoeboid cells fused together

Question 2

*ascomycetes

Answer 2

fungi that reproduce asexually by producing microscopic spores inside special, elongated cells or sacs

Question 3

*basidiomycetes

Answer 3

club fungi group; includes mushrooms

Question 4

cellular slime mold

Answer 4

fungus-like protist found on decaying organic matter

Question 5

*chitin

Answer 5

a tough, flexible carbohydrate found in fungi’s cell walls

Question 6

*deuteromycota

Answer 6

imperfect fungi that acts as a parasite and cause disease in humans that reproduce asexually; includes thrush, athletes foot, and ringworm

Question 7

*fungi

Answer 7

eukaryotic heterotrophs with rigid cell walls; mostly multicellular and asexually reproduce

Question 8

*hyphae

Answer 8

one of many long, slender filaments that make up the body of a fungus; tubules filled with cytoplasm and nuclei

Question 9

*lichen

Answer 9

symbiotic association between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism or plant (ex: fungus and green algae)

Question 10

*mycelium

Answer 10

mass of tangles, interwoven hyphae form a body of fungus (or, densely branched network of hyphae)

Question 11

*mycology

Answer 11

the study of mushrooms

Question 12

*mycorrhiza

Answer 12

mutually beneficial relationships between plant roots and fungus (or, symbiotic association of plant roots and fungi)

Question 13

*plasmodia

Answer 13

a single celled/unicellular eukaryote that infects vertebrates and insects; made up of naked protoplasm and nucleus

Question 14

*saprobe

Answer 14

a group of fungi that acts as decomposers, feeding on dead and decaying matter (organic )

Question 15

*septum/septa

Answer 15

walls in fungi that divide hyphae

Question 16

sporangia

Answer 16

spore capsule in which haploid spores are produced by meiosis

Question 17

*spore

Answer 17

cell that certain fungi, plants, and bacteria produce to defend themselves/reproduce

Question 18

stripe/stalk

Answer 18

the long part of a fungi that bears the cap of a mushroom

Question 19

water mold

Answer 19

fungus-like protists; a microscopic group of filamentous protists that physically resemble fungi, but can produce both sexually and asexually

Question 20

*zygomycetes

Answer 20

common molds that don’t have cross walls (called septas) in all hyphae except reproductive hyphae

Question 21

Coenocytic

Answer 21

Hyphae that lack cells walls between nuclei are called

Question 22

Rhizoids

Answer 22

specialized hyphae that are for feeding/anchoring

Question 23

Stolons

Answer 23

specialized structures used for connecting