Fungi

Question 1

A multicellular kingdom, like plants and animals

Answer 1

Fungi

Question 2

Cell wall material

Answer 2

Chitin,

Question 3

Nutritional mode: feed by___ using exoenzymes, which are ____

Answer 3

Absorptive Nutrition, secreted enzymes

Question 4

As they grow they ____ their substrate

Answer 4

break down

Question 5

They are _____, primarily breaking down deada organic material

Answer 5

Saprobes

Question 6

They reproduce by making sexual and asexual _____

Answer 6

Spores

Question 7

Fungi are in the same clade with animals, the ____

Answer 7

Opisthukonts

Question 8

Fungi are responsible most of the food _____ in storage

Answer 8

Spoiling

Question 9

The Whole fungal organism is called a ____

Answer 9

Mycelium

Question 10

They grow by forming long tubular-shaped cells called ____. These are an adaptation that allows them to get big by maintaining a constant ____ as the cell volume increases

Answer 10

Hyphae, Surface area

Question 11

Plant parasites and symbionts form haustoria in plants, that penetrate the ____ but do not breakthrough the plant cell membrane

Answer 11

Cell wall

Question 12

Many fungi ( soil and molds) compete with _____ in nature and have evolved to produce ___

Answer 12

Bacteria, antibiotics

Question 13

Hyphae grow together and the cytoplasm fuse in _____ which forms the dikaryotic stage.

Answer 13

Plasmogamy

Question 14

A (N+N) hypahe is called

Answer 14

Dikaryotic

Question 15

In karyogamy the ____ fuse to form the ____

Answer 15

two nuclei, zygote

Question 16

In terrestrial fungi, Karyogamy takes place in the (structure in the life cycle) ___, ___, or ___

Answer 16

Asci, zygosporangia, or basidia

Question 17

Chytrids-Zoospores which can ___ in water

Answer 17

Swim

Question 18

Chytrids are a serious pathogen on ____. In the sierras an invasive chytrid has infected and nearly killed out our native _____

Answer 18

Land, yellow legged frogs

Question 19

Mitospores are a type of ___ reproduction

Answer 19

Asexual

Question 20

Meiospores are the products of the ____ dividing

Answer 20

Zygote

Question 21

Coenocytic hyphae have

Answer 21

Free flowing nuclei

Question 22

Fungal ecological roles: Yeast are…

Answer 22

Unicellular fungi: growing in liquid substrates
Form new cells by budding
Some can sexually reproduce, many form asci
Some can ferment sugar to alcohol

Question 23

Fungal ecological roles: Molds are…

Answer 23

Rapidly growing, asexually reproducing fungi
Most have non-mold sexual stages
The mycelia of these fungi grow as saprobes or parasties on a variety of substrates
Often break down

Question 24

Mycorrhizae are a symbiosis is between a ____ and a ____

Answer 24

plant root, fungus

Question 25

Fungi provide: _____ and recieve: ____

Answer 25

Organic nutrients, phosphate ions + nutrients

Question 26

Mycorrhizae are crucial to the establishment and survival of our ____ plants

Answer 26

Terrestrial

Question 27

Rusts produce ______ colored spores on leaves

Answer 27

Orange/Yellow

Question 28

Smuts are ___ like and rot fruits

Answer 28

Yeast

Question 29

Two common fungal human skin infections are:

Answer 29

Yeast, lung infections

Question 30

A potentially serious fungal infection in California that comes from soil fungus is ______ fever

Answer 30

San joaquin valley

Question 31

A symbiosis is a

Answer 31

relationship between two organisms who live close contact with each other

Question 32

The lichen Mycobiont is the

Answer 32

Fungi

Question 33

The lichen Phycobiont is the

Answer 33

Phycobiant

Question 34

Lichens reproduce by making tuffs of a few lichen cells called

Answer 34

Soredia