Chapter 22 Flashcards
What is the study of fungi?
Mycology
fungi are nonphotosythesizing plants with ________ cell walls
chitin (kite in)
How do fungi gain nutrients?
extracellular digestion and absorption by diffusion
septa -
cell wall partitions in hyphae.
If the septa is absent it is?
coencytic
Store energy as?
glycogen
most are decomposing saprobes but some species are?
parasitic
if you are getting your nutrients from decomposed things you are a?
saprobes
Fungal mycelia grow outward in a circle called a?
fairy ring
All hyphae are?
haploid
What is the entire fungus called?
mycelium
Haploid hyphae filaments grow from?
spores which form the mycelium
Phylum Chyridiomycota
chytrids
Phylum zygomycota
bread mold
phylum ascomycota
sac fungi
phylum basidiomycota
club fungi
phylum glomeromycota
mycorrhiza
What are aquatic flagellated fungi?
Chytrids
What is the most ancient group of fungi?
chytrids
What are the most aquatic chytrids?
saprobes