Fungi

Question 1

name three fungi

Answer 1

mould, mushrooms, yeast

Question 2

Are fungi heterotrophs or autotrophs?

Answer 2

heterotrophs

Question 3

What are heterotrophs?

Answer 3

organisms that take in nutrients from other sources

Question 4

What are mould and mushroom’s bodies composed of?

Answer 4

Mycelium

Question 5

What does mycelium contain?

Answer 5

Hyphae

Question 6

What does hyphae act as?

Answer 6

roots

Question 7

What do hyphae do?

Answer 7

they attach to the food source and take its nutrients

Question 8

What is the biggest organism ever discovered?

Answer 8

Mushrooms

Question 9

How does fungi live?

Answer 9

by decomposing plant remains and taking up their nutrients

Question 10

what are decomposers?

Answer 10

organisms that break down other organisms to live

Question 11

What is at the end of the mycelium?

Answer 11

Sporangia

Question 12

What does a sporangia contain?

Answer 12

spores

Question 13

What are the spores distributed by?

Answer 13

the wind, and start to grow new mycelium

Question 14

How does mould reproduce?

Answer 14

similarly, but moulds make spores directly from the mycelium

Question 15

how does yeast reproduce?

Answer 15

by budding

Question 16

What is budding?

Answer 16

A section of the cell swelling up and a new cell is made from there

Question 17

How do fungi extract nutrients efficiently?

Answer 17

By breaking down (decaying) their damp surrounding

Question 18

name two diseases in humans caused by fungi

Answer 18

athlete’s foot, ringworm

Question 19

What is fermentation?

Answer 19

the breakdown of sugars into acetic acid & alcohol

Question 20

What type of respiration do humans do?

Answer 20

aerobic respiration

Question 21

What does aerobic respiration require?

Answer 21

oxygen

Question 22

What type of respiration does yeast do?

Answer 22

anaerobic respiration

Question 23

What is yeast fed?

Answer 23

malt (a carbohydrate)

Question 24

What is malt made from?

Answer 24

wheat/ barley

Question 25

What does yeast convert wheat and barley into?

Answer 25

ethanol & CO2

Question 26

What does ethanol do to beer?

Answer 26

makes it alcoholic

Question 27

What does CO2 do to beer?

Answer 27

make it fizzy

Question 28

What is used to make 甘酒, instead of wheat and barley?

Answer 28

rice

Question 29

What fungi is used to produce penicillin?

Answer 29

Penicillium

Question 30

What is penicillin?

Answer 30

An antibiotic

Question 31

What is penicillin used for?

Answer 31

to treat and cure many types of bacterial infections