Fungi Flashcards

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How do mushrooms reproduce?

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Sexually by fruiting bodies

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That type of fungi is a mushroom

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Basidiomycota

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What part of mushrooms holds the reproductive cells

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Basidia

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what are hyphae

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Filaments
Microscopic
Have cytoplasm & nuclei

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What type of fungus is used in banking

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Yeast

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How does yeast different from other fungi

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Unicellular, they reproduce by budding

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How do fungi differ from plants

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Heterotrophic; no chloroplasts or chlorophyll; the cell walls have chitin

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Most fungal spores are formed by (meiosis, mitosis)

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Mitosis

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Fungi are (prokaryotic, eukaryotic)

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Eurkayotes

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Fungi are(heterotrophic, autotrophic)

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Heterotrophic

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How are fungi important to the ecosystem

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They act as decomposes

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What are zoospores

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Spores that the move by flagella and produced in a sack like body

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What are sporangia

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Case/sac like & produces spores

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What is the zygosporangium

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Reproductive structure that produces spores

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What is an ascus

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Saclike; form of haploid spores (1/2 the # of chromosomes)

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What is a basidia?

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Club shaped structure that produces spores

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What are stolons

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Creeping hyphae that produce new individuals

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What are rhizoids

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Horizontal hyphae that connect the sporangium spores

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What is a mycelium

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A mass of hyphae

19
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What is lichen

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Fungus & photosynthetic partner

Ex green algae

20
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explain mycorrhizae

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Mutualistic relationship between fungus & plant roots

Fungus absorbs phosphors & the plant provides carbs

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How are fungi economically important

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They help make food (wine, cheese, beer)