Fungi

Question 1

How do fungi get nutrients?

Answer 1

By secreting digestive juices onto a food source and then absorbing the dissolved food

Question 2

Many fungi are (blank) which feed on dead plant or animal matter while other fungi are (blank)

Answer 2

Many fungi are decomposers which feed on dead plant or animal matter while other fungi are parasites

Question 3

How can plants and fungi benefit from each other through a mycorrhiza?

Answer 3

Plants give fungi nutrients and fungi helps the plants roots absorb minerals

Question 4

Mycorrhiza

Answer 4

A beneficial relationship between a plant and a fungus

Question 5

Mycelium

Answer 5

The twisted mass that forms when hyphae grow together

Question 6

Hyphae

Answer 6

Threadlike fungal filaments

Question 7

Spores

Answer 7

The small reproductive cells that are protected by a thick cell wall

Question 8

Fungi are made of (blank) cells

Answer 8

Eukaryotic

Question 9

Where is mycelium found?

Answer 9

Underground

Question 10

Describe the two types of asexual reproduction that take place in fungi

Answer 10

1. The hyphae break apart

2. The production of spores

Question 11

Sexual reproduction in fungi happens when special structures form to make what?

Answer 11

Sex cells

Question 12

What type of fungus is shapeless and fuzzy?

Answer 12

Mold

Question 13

What group does black bread mold belong to?

Answer 13

Threadlike

Question 14

Where do most threadlike fungi live?

Answer 14

In soil

Question 15

What are the spore cases on threadlike fungi called?

Answer 15

Sporangia

Question 16

Name the four groups of fungi

Answer 16

Threadlike, sac, club, and imperfect

Question 17

What are the two ways threadlike fungi reproduce

Answer 17

Spores and hyphae

Question 18

What is the largest group of fungi?

Answer 18

Sac

Question 19

What are some examples of sac fungi?

Answer 19

Yeast, powdery mildews, truffles, and morels

Question 20

When sac fungi reproduce sexual, they form a sac called a (blank)

Answer 20

ascus

Question 21

Name two ways sac fungi are useful

Answer 21

Bread and alcohol

Question 22

Budding

Answer 22

A form of asexual reproduction used by yeast

Question 23

Chestnut blight

Answer 23

A disease caused by sac fungi

Question 24

Club fungi

Answer 24

The group of fungi that mushrooms belong to

Question 25

Basidia

Answer 25

Club Like structures on club fungi

Question 26

Bracket fungi

Answer 26

A fungi that grows outward from wood and forms small shelves

Question 27

Aflatoxin

Answer 27

A poison produced by an imperfect fungi

Question 28

Penicillium

Answer 28

A fungi used to make antibiotics

Question 29

Why do mushrooms appear in circles?

Answer 29

They grow at the edges of the mass hyphae

Question 30

Bracket fungi, puffball, smuts, and rust are all (blank) fungi

Answer 30

Club

Question 31

Imperfect fungi do not reproduce (blank)

Answer 31

Sexually

Question 32

A common human skin disease caused by imperfect fungi is (blank)

Answer 32

Athletes foot

Question 33

A lichen is a combination of what two organisms?

Answer 33

Fungi and algae

Question 34

Because lichen produce their food through photosynthesis what group do they belong to
Consumers
Parasites
Producers
Host

Answer 34

Producers

Question 35

What allows lichen to live in even the driest environments without drying out?

Answer 35

Their protective walls

Question 36

Why can lichen grow on rocks?

Answer 36

Because lichen only need air, light, and minerals

Question 37

Tell how a lichen changes its surroundings in a way that allows other organisms to live there

Answer 37

When bits of rock and dead lichen fill in cracks soil is made

Question 38

Why are lichen so easily affected by air pollution?

Answer 38

Because lichen absorb water and minerals from the air

Question 39

Fungi

Answer 39

Eukaryotic heterotrophs that have rigid cell walls and no chlorophyll