Fungi

Question 1

Ectosymbiosis

Answer 1

When one organism lives on the surface of another organism

Question 2

Endosymbiosis

Answer 2

When one organism lives within the tissue of another organism

Question 3

Mutualism

Answer 3

A relationship that is beneficial to both organism involved.

Question 4

How do fungi get energy and nutrition?

Answer 4

They are heterotrophic - through absorption.

Question 5

Give an example of mutualism

Answer 5

E.Coli in the human intestine

E Coli receive food.shelter : Humans receive vitamins

Question 6

Commensalism

Answer 6

A relationship that benefits one organism and does not affect the other.

Question 7

An example of commensalism

Answer 7

Barnacles on the surface of whale

Barnacles eat food filtered by the wale : Whale no effect

Question 8

Parasitism

Answer 8

A relationship that benefits one organism and harms the other

Question 9

Examples of parasitism

Answer 9

Malaria, tetanus, mistletoe on hot trees.

Question 10

What are 3 things in the Kingdom, fungi

Answer 10

• mushrooms
• yeast (single celled fungi)
• mould

Question 11

What is a role of fungi

Answer 11

• essential to terrestrial ecosystems
• recycles and breaks down organic materal into soil

Question 12

How do fungi feed.

Answer 12

method of absorption - they are heterotrophs

Question 13

How do they break down food?

Answer 13

They release enzymes into the environment around them and it breaks down the complex molecules into smaller organic compounds.

Question 14

What is the name of a mushroom’s spore producing reproductive structure?

Answer 14

Fruiting body

Question 15

What are the 3 different fungi lifestyles?

Answer 15

Decomposers, Parasite, and mutualist

Question 16

Define the Decomposer fungi lifestyle.

Answer 16

break down waste material dead/dying organisms

Question 17

Define the parasite fungi lifestyle.

Answer 17

invade a host and receive nutrients while harming the host

Question 18

Define the mutualism fungi lifestyle

Answer 18

form a relationship with another organism that benefits both organisms

Question 19

What are the most common body structures?

Answer 19

multicellular filaments and single cells called yeasts

Question 20

Mycelia

Answer 20

networks of branches of hyphae adapted for absorption

Question 21

what do most fungi have wall made out of?

Answer 21

chitin

Question 22

Haustoria

Answer 22

unique fungal specialized hyphae that allows these fungi to penetrate the tissues of their host

Question 23

Mycorrhizae

Answer 23

mutually beneficial relationships between fungi and plant roots

Question 24

Ectomycorrhizal fungi

Answer 24

form sheaths of hyphae over a root and grow into the extracellular spaces of the root

Question 25

How to fungi reproduce?

Answer 25

They reproduce sexually and asexually