Fungi Flashcards
What is the relationship lichens have with other organisms
Mutualism
What are two organisms that lichens have a symbiosis with?
Algae or Cyanobacteria
Lichen shapes: flat
Crustose
Lichen shapes: small sheets
foliose
Lichen shapes: tall, grows away from the plant
Fruticose
Phylum of bread molds
Zygomycota
Black bread mold
Rhizopus
How does Rhizopus grow on bread
Rhizoids that anchor the mold and horizontal hyphae that connect rhizoids that are called stolons
What is the most diverse fungi?
Ascomycota
Some edible species of ascomycota
Morels and truffles
Some parasites Ascomycota produce
Dutch elm disease, ringworm, and Penicillium
How does Ascomycota (sac fungi) reproduce asexually in single celled Asco.
By budding.
How does Ascomycota asexually reproduce in multi-celled Asco.
Spores called Conidia form at the ends of hyphae called conidiophores that are dispersed by the wind.
Are multi cellular fungi haploid or diploid?
Haploid
What is a mass of hyphae called?
Mycelium
What is the function of septa?
Allows cytoplasm to flow through the hypha
What do fungi walls contain?
Chitin
What kills so many amphibians?
Parasites of Chytrid
What kind of fungi protect plants from herbivores
Endophytes
What will you find inside the lichen thallus?
Algae and fungal hyphae
The ball at the end of saprophyes
Sporangium
Rhizopus sexual production has two key elements the wings and the ball what are they called.
The wings: gametangia
The ball: zygosporangium
What is the name for yeast?
Saccharomyces
What is the Ascomycota slides of?
Peziza
