Fungi

Question 0

Slime molds and oomycetes are considered true fungi, T or F

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False

Question 1

Fungi belong to supergroup

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Ophistokonta

Question 2

Type of fungal hyphae without septa

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Coenocytic or aseptate

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Tree shaped branches of hyphae that puncture plant wall to create mutualistic symbiosis

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Haustorium

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Relationship between fungi and plants using haustorium

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Mycorrhizae

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Plasmogamy

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Union of the plasma membranes

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Karyogamy

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Union of two nuclei

Question 7

Fruit mold reproduces

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Asexually

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Heterokaryotic

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2 or more nuclei inside a reproductive cell.

Question 9

Chytrids form

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Uniflagellated spores, known as zoospores

Question 10

Amphibian decline is attributed to what type of fungus

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Chytrids

Question 11

Microsporidia can only reproduce ____

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Inside the cells of an animal host.

Question 12

Microsporidia are attributed to the decline of

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Honeybees

Question 13

Rhizopus and pilobolus are examples of Phylum

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Zygomycota

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Pilobolus fungi are also known as

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Shotgun fungi. Uses water vessel to expel spores.

Question 15

Phylum glomeromycetes are also known as

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

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Glomeromycetes form mycorrhizae with

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About 90% of plants

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Saprobes are

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Decomposer fungi

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The fungi phylum with the most diversity is

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Ascomycota

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Morels, truffles, aspergillus and yeasts are examples of

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Ascomycota

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The fruiting body of an ascomycota fungi is called an

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Ascocarp

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Sexual spores in asci group together to form an

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Ascocarp

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Each ascus(plural asci) is composed of

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Eight ascospores

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Conidia are

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Asexual spores grown at the tips of hyphae

Question 24

Aspergillus versicolor causes

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Aspergillosis, skin and lung infections.

Question 25

Basidomycota function as

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Decomposers of plant material

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Basidiomycota reproduce only by

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Sexual reproduction

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Bracket fungi, puffballs, smuts, rusts and toadstools are examples of

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Basidiomycota

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During sexual reproduction in Basidiomycota, each basidium contains

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Four basidiospores

Question 29

Penicillin was discovered by

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Alexander Fleming

Question 30

Deuteromycetes are now part of the phylum

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Ascomycota

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Deuteromycetes are labelled imperfect because

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They are lacking one reproductive part.

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Common name for a rapidly growing asexual fungus

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Mold

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Unicellular ascomycete or basidiomycete. Ferments sugars for energy

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Yeast

Question 34

Dutch elm disease is an example of

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Ascomycota

Question 35

Foliose lichens can be characterized as

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Leaf like

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Fructicose lichens are characterized as

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Long, slender, tubular lichens

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Crustose lichens are

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Flat

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Dutch elm disease is spread by

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Mycangia on beetles head that holds spores.

Question 39

Cryptococcus is a

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Fungal disease called Meningitis

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Trichophyton is also known as

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Athletes foot

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Lucipherase is

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A chemical in fungi that causes bioluminescence

Question 42

Ergots causes what in humans

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Hallucinations. Thought to have caused Salem Witch trials