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Chapter 31: Fungi Summary Flashcards

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Parasites with flagellated spores

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Cryptomycetes

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Parasitic cells that form resistant spores

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Microsporidians

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Flagellated spores

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Chytrids

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Resistant zygosporangium as a sexual stage

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Zoopagomycetes

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Include fungi that form arbuscular mycorrhizae with plants

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Mucuromycetes

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Sexual spores born internally in sacs (asci)

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Ascospores

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Contain Ascospores in asci; vast numbers of conidia produced

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Ascomycetes

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Asexual spores in Ascomycetes

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Conidia

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Elaborate fruiting body containing many basidia

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Basidiocarp

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Basidiocarp containg many basidia that produce basidiospores

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Basidiomycetes

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Fungal bodies form networks of tiny filaments called

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Hyphae

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A structural polymer that strengthens hyphae

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Chitin

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Hyphae are divided into cells by cross-walls called

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Septa

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Lack septa and have hundred or thousands of nuclei in a continuous cytoplasmic mass

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Coenocytic fungi

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Fungal hyphae form an interwoven mass called; that infiltrates the food source

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Mycelium

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Specialized hyphae that penetrate plant cell walls, but not the cell membrane

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Arbuscules

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Mutually beneficial relationships between fungi and plant roots; “fungus roots”

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Mycorrhizae

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Form sheaths of hyphae over the root surface and extend into the extra cellular spaces of the root cortex

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Ectomycorrhizal fungi

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Extend Arbuscules through the root cell wall and into tubes formed by invagination of the root cell plasma membrane

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

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Mycorrhizal fungi colonize soils by the dispersal of haploid cells called

21
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Sexual signaling molecules of fungi to communicate their mating type

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Pheromones

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The union of the cytoplasm from two parent mycelia

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Plasmogamy

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A mycelium that contains coexisting, genetically different nuclei called a

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Heterokaryon

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The haploid nuclei pair off two to a cell; such a mycelium is said to be

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Dikaryotic

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Process of nuclei fusion

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Yeasts and filamentous fungi that have no known sexual stage form a group called

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Deuteromycetes

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Clade includes fungi, animals, and their protistan relatives

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Opisthokonts

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Closely related amoebas that feed on algae and bacteria

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Nucleariids

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These two phyla form a sister group and are basal fungi lineage

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Cryptomycetes and microsporidians

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Flagellated spores of chytrids

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This phylum live as parasites or commensal symbionts of animals or as parasites of other fungi or protists

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Zoopagomycetes

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This phylum includes important decomposers

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Mucoromycetes

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Fusion between different mating types (plasmogamy) produces a

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Zygosporagium

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This phylum is often called sac fungi, named for their saclike asci

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Ascomycetes

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Fruiting bodies of Ascomycetes

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Ascocarps contain the spore-forming

37
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Conidia are produced at the tips of specialized hyphae called

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Conidiophores

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The phylum including mushrooms, puffballs, and shelf fungi

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Basidiomycetes

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A cell in which Karyogamy and meiosis occur in Basidiomycetes

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A complex polymer abundant in wood

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Best at decomposing lignin

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Basidiomycetes

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Fungi that live inside leaves or other plant parts without causing harm

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Endophytes

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Endophytes are

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Ascomycetes

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Symbiotic associations between photosynthetic microorganisms and fungi

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Small clusters of hyphae with embedded algae

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Fungal infections in animals

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