Fungi Flashcards
Fungi ____________ in the biosphere
degrade dead organic matter
Fungi are __________ of almost all vascular plants
nutritional partners
Some fungi are serious ________ of plants and animals
pathogens
Fungi are ____________ with absorptive nutrition.
heterotrophic eukaryotes
Fungi can be _____, _______, _______
saprobes, parasites, or mutualists
What are saprobes?
obtains carbon & energy from dead organic matter
Some fungi called yeasts are ____________
unicellular
Other fungi are composed of _________-walled, multinucleate hyphae, often massed to form a _______
chitinous; hyphae; mycelium
Filamentous_________ give fungi a large surface area–to–volume ratio
hyphae
The hyphae usually have incomplete partitions called what?
s. septum; pl. septa
The hyphae usually have incomplete partitions that __________ them into separate cells.
do not divide
Fungi reproduce asexually by means of what? (4 ways)
spores
conidia
budding
fragmentation
In fungi, where do the spores form at?
spores formed within sporangia
In fungi, where does the conidia formed at?
conidia formed at the tips of hyphae
Fungi reproduce sexually when ___________________ meet and fuse
hyphae or motile cells of different mating types