Fungi Flashcards
How do mushrooms reproduce?
Sexually by fruiting bodies
That type of fungi is a mushroom
Basidiomycota
What part of mushrooms holds the reproductive cells
Basidia
what are hyphae
Filaments
Microscopic
Have cytoplasm & nuclei
What type of fungus is used in banking
Yeast
How does yeast different from other fungi
Unicellular, they reproduce by budding
How do fungi differ from plants
Heterotrophic; no chloroplasts or chlorophyll; the cell walls have chitin
Most fungal spores are formed by (meiosis, mitosis)
Mitosis
Fungi are (prokaryotic, eukaryotic)
Eurkayotes
Fungi are(heterotrophic, autotrophic)
Heterotrophic
How are fungi important to the ecosystem
They act as decomposes
What are zoospores
Spores that the move by flagella and produced in a sack like body
What are sporangia
Case/sac like & produces spores
What is the zygosporangium
Reproductive structure that produces spores
What is an ascus
Saclike; form of haploid spores (1/2 the # of chromosomes)