Fungi

Question 1

modified hyphae that extract nutrients from plants

Answer 1

haustoria

Question 2

cell walls separating cells in hyphae

Answer 2

septae

Question 3

fungi lacking septae

Answer 3

coenocytic fungi

Question 4

formation of mycelium from spores

Answer 4

germination

Question 5

Hyphae cells fuse when they meet during sexual reproduction

Answer 5

plasmogamy

Question 6

between plasmogamy and fusion of nuclei

Answer 6

heterokaryotic phase

Question 7

when only two nuclei engage in plasmogamy to form each heterokaryon

Answer 7

dikaryotic phase

Question 8

fusion of nuclei

Answer 8

karyogamy

Question 9

formed by karyogamy

Answer 9

zygote

Question 10

grade of all fungi lacking sexual reproduction

Answer 10

Deuteromycetes

Question 11

close relatives of fungi; amoebas that feed on algae and bacteria

Answer 11

nucleariids

Question 12

earliest-diverging lineages of fungi

Answer 12

chytrids

Question 13

fungi that do not synthesize a chitin-rich cell wall during any of their life cycle stages; controversial grouping

Answer 13

cryptomycota

Question 14

unique spores in chytrids that are flagellated

Answer 14

zoospores

Question 15

Fast growing molds, parasites, commensalists on animals

Answer 15

zygomycota

Question 16

extensions of hyphae in zygomycotan sexual reproduction

Answer 16

gametangia

Question 17

form from merging of gametangia during plasmogamy

Answer 17

zygosporangium

Question 18

forms spores in zygomycota

Answer 18

sporangium

Question 19

zygomycota genus that can shoot spores in water, aiming its Sporangium toward light

Answer 19

Pilobolus

Question 20

white bread mold species

Answer 20

Rhizopus stolonifer

Question 21

location of septa in Rhizopus stolonifer

Answer 21

only reproductive cells

Question 22

nearly all of them form arbuscular mycorrhizae

Answer 22

Glomeromycota

Question 23

Sac Fungi

Answer 23

Ascomycota

Question 24

branches of mycelia for asexual reproduction in ascomycota

Answer 24

conidiophore

Question 25

asexual spores in ascomycota

Answer 25

conidia

Question 26

plasmogamy produces these in ascomycota

Answer 26

dikaryotic ascus

Question 27

karyogamy occurs here in ascomycota

Answer 27

ascus

Question 28

number of ascospores per ascus

Answer 28

8

Question 29

fruiting bodies containing the spore-forming asci

Answer 29

ascocarp

Question 30

club fungus

Answer 30

basidiomycota

Question 31

contains rusts and smuts

Answer 31

basidiomycota

Question 32

best at decomposing lignin

Answer 32

basidiomycota

Question 33

elaborate fruiting bodies in basidiomycota

Answer 33

Basidiocarps

Question 34

basidiomycota cell in which karyogamy occurs, followed immediately by meiosis; sheltered by basidiocarp cap

Answer 34

basidia

Question 35

most endophytes

Answer 35

ascomycota

Question 36

most lichens

Answer 36

ascomycota

Question 37

small reproductive clusters of hyphae with embedded algae

Answer 37

soredia

Question 38

causes Chestnut blight

Answer 38

Cryphonectria parasitica; ascomycete fungus

Question 39

causes pine pitch canker

Answer 39

Ascomycete - Fusarium circinatum

Question 40

causes ergot

Answer 40

Ascomycete - Claviceps purpurea

Question 41

caused recent decline or extinction of about 200 species of frogs and other amphibians

Answer 41

chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Question 42

general term for an infection in an animal by a fungal parasite

Answer 42

mycosis

Question 43

causes ringworm

Answer 43

ascomycota

Question 44

ringworm on the foot

Answer 44

athlete's foot

Question 45

systemic mycosis that produces tuberculosis-like symptoms in the lungs

Answer 45

coccidioidomycosis

Question 46

causes yeast infections

Answer 46

Candida albicans

Question 47

many strains of baker’s yeast and brewer’s yeast

Answer 47

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Question 48

ascomycete that can grow on wood or agricultural waste and that naturally produces hydrocarbons similar to those in diesel fuel

Answer 48

Gliocladium roseum

Question 49

makes penicillin

Answer 49

ascomycete mold Penicillium