Fungi Flashcards
Chytridiomycota
Mutualism in animal gut and decomposers
Produce motile spores and gametes - proof animal and fungi are related
Parasitic to some animals
Zygomycota
Asexual - sexual spores produced by mitosis
Black bread molds
Tough resting structure for producing sexual spores
Pilobolus
Explosive dispersal of spores
Asexual
Excellent colonizers
Glomeromycota
Asexual
Oldest fossil record
Include arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Ascomycota
Sac fungi Asexual - spores produced by mitosis Most diverse Lots of roots and large fruiting bodies (sacs) Yeast and truffles
Basidiomycota
Club fungi
Mushrooms, puffballs, brackets - different fruiting bodies (basidiocarps)
Gills increase SA which allows for lots of basidia (spore Bearing structure)
Deuteromycota
Imperfect fungi
Not bad, just asexual (fruiting body absent)
Oomycota
NOT A FUNGI
water mold - more closely related to algae
Slime molds
NOT A FUNGI
more related to animals
Lichens
NOT A FUNGI
Symbiotic association between fungus and a unicellular photosynthetic green algae or cyanobacterium
Mycorrhizae
Mutualism where hyphae are attached to roots and penetrate root of plants and root cells
Ectomychorrizal fungi
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Endophytes
Fungi living inside plant leaves
Help repel herbivores and improve plant tolerance to environmental extremes
Mycelium
Feeding network of a fungus
Can be huge
Chitin
Cell wall of fungi
Life cycle
Haplontic
Haploid nuclei of dikaryotic cell fuse to form zygote
Plasmogamy - karyogamy - meiosis - germination
