Fungi

Question 0

Importances +

Answer 0

1) decomposers
2) food
3) medicine
4) symbiosis
5) fermentation
6) economics-$
7) food processing
8) absorption of plants nutrients

Question 1

Characteristics

Answer 1

1) eukaryotic cells
2) multi/unicellular (most multicellular)
3) cell wall made of chitin
4) heterotrophic (saprophytic, parasitic)
5) 65,000 species
6) aerobic
7) sexual and asexual reproduction
8) classified by reproductive structures
9) colorful
10) most are terrestrial
11) hyphae
12) mycelium
13) rhizoids for anchorage
14) 5 phyla

Question 2

Importances -

Answer 2

1) food spoilage
2) disease
3) crop damage
4) property damage
5) allergic reactions

Question 3

Phylum Oomycota

Answer 3

1) protist- like fungi, “ egg-fungi”
2) cell wall of cellulose
3) not common on land
4) water molds, mildews, potato blight
5) can grow on fish
6) used to be with the zygomycetes

Question 4

Phylum Zygomycota

Answer 4

1) 600 species
2) food spoilage- “fridge fungi”
3) cottony growth- sporangia
4) black bread mold- common molds
5) can grow in colder environments

Question 5

Phylum Ascomycota

Answer 5

1) 30 species
2) sac or cup fungi
3) ascus- sexual reproduction/ conidia spores
4) rich soil
5) many are edible
6) some are plant pathogens- chestnut blight, Dutch elm disease
7) some multiply by budding- asexual reproduction

Question 6

Phylum Deuteromycota

Answer 6

1) 10,000 species
2) imperfect fungi
3) asexual reproduction only
4) pathogenic
5) some produce antibiotics- penicillin

Question 7

Phylum Basidiomycota

Answer 7

1) 25,000 species
2) club or fleshy fungi
3) “ cap with gills”
4) mushroom, puffball, bracket, smuts, rusts, road stools, jelly fungi
5) some are edible
6) some are plant pathogens ( smuts, rust)
7) composed of masses of hyphae
8) can produce 1,000,000,000 spores

Question 8

Lichen

Answer 8

A mix between algae and fungi

Question 9

Saprophyte

Answer 9

Any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi

Question 10

Symbiosis

Answer 10

A close relationship between two species in which at least one species benefits from the other

Question 11

Mycelium

Answer 11

The mass of hyphae that from the vegetative part of the fungus

Question 12

Hyphae

Answer 12

One of the threadlike elements of the mycelium

Question 13

Mycorrhiza

Answer 13

Symbiotic relationship between a fungus and the roots of a green plant

Question 14

Chitin

Answer 14

Complex carbohydrate found in the arthropod exoskeletons and fungal cell walls

Question 15

Myxomycete

Answer 15

Phylum containing a cellular slime mold

Question 16

Pileus

Answer 16

The cap or horizontal portion of a mushroom

Question 17

Spore

Answer 17

One cell reproductive unit capable of giving rise to new without sexual fusion

Question 18

Rhizoid

Answer 18

One if the rootlike filaments by which the plant is attached to the substratum

Question 19

Rhizopus

Answer 19

A genus of common saprobic fungi on plants and specialized parasites on animals

Question 20

Dermatophyte

Answer 20

Any fungus parasitic on the skin and causing a skin disease

Question 21

Annulus

Answer 21

The veil remnant on a mushroom stalk

Question 22

Stipe

Answer 22

The support structure of the pileus of the mushroom

Question 23

Decomposer

Answer 23

An organism that breaks down the cells of dead plants and animals into simpler substances

Question 24

Yeast

Answer 24

Microscopic fungus consisting of single cells that reproduce by budding

Question 25

Gill

Answer 25

One of the radiating vertical plates on the underside of the cap of an agaric mushroom

Question 26

Imperfect fungi

Answer 26

A fungus for which only the asexual reproduction stage is known as any fungus of the Fungi Imperfecti

Question 27

Mildew

Answer 27

Whitish coat that grows on plants or damp organic materials consisted of fungal hyphae