Fungi Flashcards
What is the name for the study of fungi?
Mycology
How do fungi obtain nutrients?
Absorption from dead or decomposing matter.
What do fungi produce for survival during environmental change?
Spores
What is the name for ‘true’ fungi?
Eumycota
What is in cell membranes instead of cholesterol?
Etgosterol
Cell walls are ___ and ___.
Thick and rigid
In mutualistic relations, what are the roles of animals and fungi?
Animals provide nutrients and and protection and fungi provide food.
Which component of plants can fungi break down that very few organisms can?
Lignin
In mutualistic relations, or mycorrhizae, what are the roles of plants and fungi?
Plants provide carbon from photosynthesis and fungi provide minerals.
What are hyphae?
Long threadlike structures that fungi exist as during their vegetative state.
What separates hyphae to allow flow of nutrients?
Perforated septa
How do fungi carry out sexual reproduction?
Fusion of hyphae.
How do fungi carry out asexual reproduction?
Fruiting bodies form to release spores.
