Chapter 22 -3 Flashcards
What causes yeast infections in adult males & females?
candida
What is the scientific name for toenail fungus?
trichophyton
What is trichophyton rubrum?
athlete’s foot fungus
Phylum Basidiomycota aka?
club fungi
Phylum Basidiomycota contains?
mushrooms, shelf fungi, puffballs
Mushrooms are composed of?
cap with gills or pores and a stem
What are spores (from basidiomycota) produced on and by?
on the basidia on the gills
by meiosis
What happens to haploid spores in Basidiomycota?
dropped and fused into the soil
What kind of mushrooms are poisonous?
amanita mushrooms
What is hallucinogenic?
psilocybes
What are lichens?
mutualistic symbiotic relationship of ascomycete fungi and green algae/cyanobacteria
Ascomycete fungi gets what from algae? Algae gets what from fungi?
sugars from algae
water & nutrients from fungus
Characteristics of lichens?
live in adverse conditions
sensitive to air pollution