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Fungi Flashcards

1
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What is the Latin word from which ‘fungus’ is derived?

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Fungous

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What is the study of fungi?

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Mycology

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General characteristics of fungi

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  • Ubiquitous
  • Heterotrophic
  • Eukaryotes (with one or multi nuclei)
  • Cosmopolitan distribution
  • Microscopic or macroscopic sporocarps
  • Sexual or parasexual reproduction
  • Simple or complex life cycle
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What is sexual reproduction in fungi?

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It is usually nuclear fusion or meiosis

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What is parasexual reproduction in fungi?

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It involves nuclear fusion, followed by a gradual de-diploidization and/or asexual (pure mitotic nuclear) division.

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Who classified living things into plants and animals?

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Karl Von Linne, 1735

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Who divided living things into kingdoms?

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Whittaker, 1969

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8
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What were earlier systems of classification based on?

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  • Thallus organization and cell wall
  • Life cycle pattern
  • Type of asexual pores
  • Presence and absence of sexual reproduction and its type
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9
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On what basis are recent systems of classification?

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Physiology
BIochemistry
Serology
Morphology

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Scientists who classified fungi…

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Bauhin 1623
Gwyne-Vaughan and Barnes, 1926
Gauman and Dodge, 1928
Bessey, 1950
Martin, 1961
Alexopoulus and Mims, 1979
Ainsworth, 1966, 1971, 1973
Hawksworth et al 1985, 1995
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On what basis did Ainsworth classify fungi?

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Morphology, especially of reproductive structures.

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Under what kingdom did AInsworth classify fungi?

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Mycota, with slime molds.

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Characteristics of kingdom Mycota

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  • No chlorophyll II
  • Free-living, parasitic or mutualistic
  • Variable cell wall composition (chitin and glucan)
  • Reserve food material are oil, manitol and glycogen
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General characteristics of Division Myxomycota

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  • Plasmodium or pseudoplasmodium present
  • Slimy
  • Called false fungi
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15
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Classes under Division Myxomycota

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Ascrasiomycetes
Hydromyxomycetes
Myxomycetes
Plasmodiophoromycetes

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16
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Subdivisions under Eumycota

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  • Mastigomycotina
  • Zygomycotina
  • Ascomycotina
  • Basidiomycotina
  • Deuteromycotina
17
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Classes under Mastigomycotina

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  • Chytridiomycetes
  • Hyphochytridiomycetes
  • Oomycetes
18
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General characteristics of Mastigomycotina

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Motile cells
Zoospores
Perfect state spore: Oospore

19
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What is the perfect state spore for Mastigomycotina

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Oospore

20
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General characteristics of Zygomycotina

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  • Aseptate mycellium
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What is the perfect state spore for Zygomycotina?

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Zygospore

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Classes under Zygomycotina

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  • Zygomycetes

- Trichomycetes

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General characteristics of Ascomycotina

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Septate mycellium

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What is the perfect state spore for Ascomycotina?

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Ascospore

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Classes under Ascomycotina

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Hemiascomycetes
Loculoascomycetes
Plectomycetes
Laboulbeniomyctes
Perenomycetes
Discomycetes
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General characterisitcs of Basidiomycotina

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Yeast or septate mycellium

27
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What is the perfect state spore for Basidiomycotina?

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Basidiospore

28
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Classes under Basidiomycotina

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Teliomycetes
Hymenomycetes
Gasteromycetes

29
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General characterisitcs of Deuteromycotina

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Yeast or septate mycellium

30
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What is the perfect state spore for Deuteromycotina

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Unknown

31
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Classes under Deuteromycotina

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Deuteronomy Book Has Caleb

Blastomycetes
Hyphomycetes
Coelomycetes

32
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What is the surviving structure for fungi?

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Spores

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