Fungi Flashcards

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1
Q

What is the relationship lichens have with other organisms

A

Mutualism

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2
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What are two organisms that lichens have a symbiosis with?

A

Algae or Cyanobacteria

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3
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Lichen shapes: flat

A

Crustose

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4
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Lichen shapes: small sheets

A

foliose

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5
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Lichen shapes: tall, grows away from the plant

A

Fruticose

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6
Q

Phylum of bread molds

A

Zygomycota

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7
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Black bread mold

A

Rhizopus

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8
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How does Rhizopus grow on bread

A

Rhizoids that anchor the mold and horizontal hyphae that connect rhizoids that are called stolons

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9
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What is the most diverse fungi?

A

Ascomycota

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10
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Some edible species of ascomycota

A

Morels and truffles

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11
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Some parasites Ascomycota produce

A

Dutch elm disease, ringworm, and Penicillium

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12
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How does Ascomycota (sac fungi) reproduce asexually in single celled Asco.

A

By budding.

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13
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How does Ascomycota asexually reproduce in multi-celled Asco.

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Spores called Conidia form at the ends of hyphae called conidiophores that are dispersed by the wind.

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14
Q

Are multi cellular fungi haploid or diploid?

A

Haploid

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15
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What is a mass of hyphae called?

A

Mycelium

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16
Q

What is the function of septa?

A

Allows cytoplasm to flow through the hypha

17
Q

What do fungi walls contain?

A

Chitin

18
Q

What kills so many amphibians?

A

Parasites of Chytrid

19
Q

What kind of fungi protect plants from herbivores

A

Endophytes

20
Q

What will you find inside the lichen thallus?

A

Algae and fungal hyphae

21
Q

The ball at the end of saprophyes

A

Sporangium

22
Q

Rhizopus sexual production has two key elements the wings and the ball what are they called.

A

The wings: gametangia
The ball: zygosporangium

23
Q

What is the name for yeast?

A

Saccharomyces

24
Q

What is the Ascomycota slides of?

A

Peziza

25
Q

Parts of the Peziza from out to in

A

Ascospores, asci, ascocarp mycelium

26
Q

What is the fruiting body of a mushroom?

A

Basidiocarp

27
Q

What is produced on the gills of basidiocarp? (Mushroom)

A

Badidiospores are produced on basidia