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1
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What 2 ways do fungi live?

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As decomposers and symbionts

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Why can fungi live as decomposers and symbionts?

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Because they absorb their nutrition

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How has fungi evolved that has allowed them to survive absorbing their nutrition?

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Extensive surface are and rapid growth

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How do fungi reproduce?

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Sexual and asexual reproduction that releases spores

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What stage does many fungi have?

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Heterokaryotic - reproductive where more than 1 nuclei (from different separate mating types) is present w/in same cytoplasm

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What are the 4 ways in which fungi differ from eukaryotes?

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1- nutrition mode
2- structural organization
3- growth
4- reproduction

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What is it called when fungi (like animals) require their nutrition from absorption?

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Heterotrophic

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What do fungi use to help breakdown food surrounding it so it can absorb the simpler compounds?

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Exoenzymes - powerful hydrolytic enzymes secreted outside

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What are the 3 roles of fungi play due to their absorption of nutrients?

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1- saprobic (decomposer)
2- parasitic
3- mutualistic

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Explain Saprobic as a role fungi play due to their absorption of nutrients

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(Decomposers) Fungi absorb nutrients from nonliving organisms

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Explain Parasitic as a role fungi play due to their absorption of nutrients. What can some be?

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Fungi absorb nutrients from the cell of living hosts - some infecting humans and plants can be pathogenic

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Explain Mutualistic as a role fungi play due to their absorption of nutrients

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Fungi absorb nutrients from host organism but they also give back with functions that benefits their partner/host in some way

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Explain the bodies of fungi (2)

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Vegetative bodies constructed of tiny filaments = hyphae

When hyphae are interwoven mat = mycelium

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What does the fungi filament hyphae have? What is it mainly built from?

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Have cell walls

Built mainly from chitin

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What are the cell walls in hyphae also be called?

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Septa

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Though hyphae have septa/cell walls they are not completely closed off from neighboring cells. Why?

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They have pores so ribosomes/mitochondria/etc can flow between cells

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What is fungi called when it lacks septa? Explain

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Coenoytic = consists of continuous cytoplasmic mass with load of nuclei

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What does parasitic fungi have some of their hyphae modified into?

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Haustoria = nutrient absorbing hyphal tips that penetrate the tissue of their host

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If fungi use sexual and asexual reproduction to produce spores that then are released, what is relied on to move the spores?

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Water and wind

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What happens to fungi spores when they land in a moist place?

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Germinate to produce mycelia - if food is around the area

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What are most spores and hyphae of fungi?

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Haploid

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Does fungi have a diploid stage?

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Yes - During the sexual life cycles

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What happens genetically to some mycelia in fungi? Called?

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Fusion of 2 hyphae with still 2 genetically different nuclei = heterokaryotic mycelium

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In the sexual life cycle of fungi, what is karyogamy?

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Fusion of haploid nuclei of 2 different “parents”

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In the sexual life cycle of fungi, what is plasmogamy?

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When the cytoplasm of the 2 “parents” fuse = becomes heterokaryotic mycelium

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Describe the asexual reproduction of fungi (4)

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Mycelium develop store-producing structures
Spores are released
Spores germinate
Become new mycelium

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Describe the sexual reproduction of fungi (5)

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Within Mycelium hyphae will go through plasmogamy (cytoplasm fuse) = heterokaryotic stage
Karyogamy will happen (fusion of nuclei) = zygote
Meiosis = spore producing structures
Spores released
Germination of spores = mycelium

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How many phylums are in fungi?

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4

29
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What are the 4 phylums of fungi?

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1- Chytridiomycota
2- Zygomycota
3- Ascomycota
4- Basidiomycota

30
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When did fungi start appearing on land?

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Around the same time plants did

31
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What did the first forms of fungi look like?

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Aquatic flagellated organisms

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Where are the phylum Chytridiomycota found?

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Mainly aquatic

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What 2 roles does the phylum Chytridiomycota live in environments?

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Saprobes = Decomposers

Parasitic - to protists, plants and animals

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Where is the phylum Zygomycota found?

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Terrestrial living in soil or on decaying plant/animal

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What is one Zygomycota group? What do they do?

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Mycorrhizae - have mutualistic relationship with plant roots

36
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What can be said about the hyphae in the phylum Zygomycota?

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Lack septa so it is coenocytic fungi

37
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Does the phylum Zygomycota have any septa if they are coenocytic?

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Found only in reproductive structure

38
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What is another example of the phylum Zygomycota? Common name?

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Rhizopus stolonifer - black bread mold

39
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How does the Rhizopus stolonifer the phylum Zygomycota form?

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Horizontal hyphae spread out over food, penetrates it and digest its nutrients

40
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What structure develops in the asexual reproduction of the Rhizopus stolonifer the phylum Zygomycota?

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100’s of haploid spores develop in sporangia at tips of hyphae

41
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What makes the Rhizopus stolonifer the phylum Zygomycota reproduce sexually?

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When environmental conditions worsen

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What 2 structures develop in the sexual reproduction of the Rhizopus stolonifer the phylum Zygomycota?

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Plasmogamy (cytoplasm fusion of 2 mating types) produce a zygosporangium
Inside heterokaryotic fuse to form diploid nuclei and undergo meiosis

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Describe the asexual reproduction of the Rhizopus stolonifer the phylum Zygomycota from start to end (4)

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Mycelium will produce/grow sporangia
Spores are produced in sporangia
Spores get released
Spores germinate into mycelium

44
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Describe the sexual reproduction of the Rhizopus stolonifer the phylum Zygomycota from start to end (8)

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2 mycelia match up
Between them produce gametangia w/ haploid nuclei
They undergo plasmogamy to produce zygosporangium = heterokaryotic structure
When the nuclei fuse = karyogamy
Forms a diploid nuclei which undergoes meiosis
Sporangia grows producing spores
Spores are released and germinate
Mycelia grows

45
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What is the phylum Ascomycota known as? Why?

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Sac fungi - produces spores in saclike asci

46
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What kind of spores are produced in the asci of the Ascomycota?

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Sexual

47
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Where are the asci collected in the phylum Ascomycota? Called?

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Collected in macroscopic bodies called ascocarp

48
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What are 2 examples of of an ascocarp of the phylum Ascomycota?

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The edible parts of truffles and morels

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What structure develops in the asexual reproduction of the phylum Ascomycota?

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Produces a large number of asexual spores which disperse in wind

50
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Explain the spores that are produced asexually by the phylum Ascomycota. What are they called?

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Naked spores - called conidia

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Where does the conidia (naked spores) that are produced asexually by the phylum Ascomycota develop? Called?

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Develop in long chains or clusters at tips of specialized hyphae - called conidiophores

52
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Describe the asexual reproduction of the phylum Ascomycota from start to end (4)

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Mycelium develop specialized hyphae called conidiophores
Conidiophores produce conidia (naked spores)
Conidia are released
They germinates and grow into mycelium

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Describe the sexual reproduction of the phylum Ascomycota from start to end (9)

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2 mycelia match up
One has ascogonium other antheridium
They undergo plasmogamy to produce an ascocarp
Has heterokaryotic asci
When the nuclei fuse in ascus = karyogamy
Forms a diploid nuclei which undergoes meiosis
The asci produces ascospores
Spores are released and germinate
Mycelia grows

54
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What is the phylum Basidiomycota known as? Why?

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Club fungi - shaped like a club

55
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What are 4 examples of the phylum Basidiomycota?

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Mushrooms, shelf fungi, puffballs and rusts

56
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What is the name of the phylum Basidiomycota derived from?

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Basidium = long diploid stage

57
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What role does the phylum Basidiomycota?

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Saprobic = Decomposers

58
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What are the 2 groups of the phylum Basidiomycota?

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Rusts and smuts

59
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Explain the sexual life cycle of the phylum Basidiomycota (8)

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Haploid mycelia match up 
Undergo plasmogamy 
Produces heterokaryotic mycelium 
Forms Basidiocarp 
Undergoes karyogamy 
Produces diploid nuclei undergoes meiosis 
Basidium produces Basidiospores 
These disperse and germinate into mycelium
60
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What are the 4 keys features for the 4 phylums?

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Chytridiomycota - motile spores with flagella
Zygomycota - zygosporangium in sexual reproduction
Ascomycota - spores in asci sacs
Basidiomycota - spores in Basidium

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