Fungi Flashcards
Father of Indian Mycology is-
1- Anton Butler
2- Sir Edwin
3- Sir Edwin John Debary
4- Sir Edwin John Butler
Sir Edwin John Butler.
Father of Mycology.
Anton Debary.
How do fungi make their food? Hence, Fungi are ________ _______trophic.
They get their food from others.
Always heterotrophic.
True or False:
Fungi are partially prokaryotic. If true state when if false state the true condition.
False. They are always eukaryotic.
Fungi are either parasitic or ________.
Saprophytic.
Yeast is different from other fungi as it is ________.
Unicellular.
The functional unit of fungi are ?
Hyphae.
Hyphae are ____________ structures.
Filamentous.
Fungi store food in the form of?
Glycogen oils.
Cell wall is _________.
Present.
Cell wall is made of _________
Chitin.
Several organisms under kingdom fungi are primarily classified on the basis of ____________ in ____________.
Reduction, Sexuality.
Yeast biological name is?
Saccharomyces cerevisae.
True or False.
Yeast has no type of mycelia.
No, it has pseudomycelium that look like mycelia at reproductive stage.
Hyphae is _______ filamentous and _________ structure. Network of hyphae is called __________.
long, filamentous and mycelia.
Dikaryotic condition is found in which condition of which mycellium? Name the two types of dikaryotic conditions too.
It is found in mulitnucleate multicellular septate mycellia. Dikaryotic condition occurs as either homokaryotic or heterokaryotic.
Difference bw septate and aseptate mycellia is the presence of ______ ______.
Cross walls.
Septate mycellia are both ______ and _________, while Aseptate mycellia are mostly ________ . This condition in aseptate mycellia is called ______________ ____________.
Unicellular and Multicellular.
Multicellular.
Aseptate Coenocytic.
True or False
Binary Fission is Indirect Division.
False. Binary Division is Direct Division and Mitosis is Indirect Division.
Prosenchyma and PseudoParenchyma come under which mycellia organisation?
Plectenchyma
The four mycellia organisations are ?
1-Plectenchyma
2-Rhizomorph
3-Sclerotia
4-Stroma
Loose/compactly interwoven hyphae come under which category ? Of that category specifically compact hyphae come under which category? And what do these hyphae resemble?
Plectenchyma, PseudoParenchyma. They resemble Isodiametric/ Parenchymatus cells.
Hyphae loose their individuality in which mycellial organisation?
PseudoParenchyma.
Specifically loose hyphae come in?
Prosenchyma.
Hyphae that perform the function of roots i.e absorption of water and nutrients come under?
Rhizomorph. Hyphae look like roots.
Black/ brown structures that form thick covering around loose hyphae come under ?
Sclerotia.
Stroma is a mycellia ____ on which _______ _______ develop.
mat and fruiting bodies.
The most common method of reproduction in fungi is? It occurs through?
Asexual Reproduction. Production of Spores.
Spores are formed in ___________ Reproduction.
Asexual.
The types of vegetative reproduction seen in fungi are ?
Fragmentation, Budding, Fission, Oidia and Chlamydospores.
The only types of vegetative reproduction where spores are formed are ?
Oidia and chlamydospores.
In yeast which type of reproduction takes place. Name the specification of the said type.
Vegetative reproduction- Fission.
True or False.
Yeast reproduces through indirect division.
False. Direct i.e Binary Fission.
Binary fission is also called __________.
Amitosis.
Oidia and chlamydospores are same in the way that they are both _______ that arise from __________ through _____________.
spores, mycellia and fragmentation.
Through fragmentation ________ and ___________ arise through mycellia.
Oidia spores and chlamydospores.