Fungi and Lichens

Question 1

Where do fungi spend most of their lives

Answer 1

living as spores, or tiny filaments living among other things

Question 2

disease causing fungi

Answer 2

pathogenic

Question 3

importance of fungi

Answer 3

1. critical fro decomposition and nutrient cycling/ breaking down organic compounds so they can be used again in living systems.2. form symbioses called mycorrhizae with about 80% of all plants for update of water and minerals 3. used in biotechnology for research since they are closely related to animals 4. food and medicine, penicillin the most famous

Question 4

fungi life cycle

Answer 4

zygotic basically- spend most life in haploid(dikaryotic n+n) stage, and once it forms diploid, almost immediately undergoes meiosis to form haploid spores.

Question 5

what are lichens

Answer 5

mutualistic partnership of a fungus with a green algae and/or cyanobacteria

Question 6

lichen types

Answer 6

crustoce (crusty) fruticose (shrubby) foliose (leaf- like)

Question 7

fungal filaments

Answer 7

hyphae

Question 8

network of hyphae

Answer 8

mycelium

Question 9

saprotrophic fungi

Answer 9

fungi that decay dead organic matter

Question 10

zygomycota

Answer 10

bread molds

Question 11

basidiomycota

Answer 11

basidiomycetes, mushrooms, toadstools, rusts, smuts, puffballs, shelf fungi

Question 12

mushroom division

Answer 12

cap, stipe, gills

Question 13

Ascomycota,

Answer 13

cup fungi, sac fungi, morels, truffles, yeast, dermatophytes ( athlete’s foot, jock itch, etc)

Question 14

Largestest phylum of fungi, consisting of more then 32,000 species

Answer 14

Ascomycetes

Question 15

conidia

Answer 15

asexual spores of a fungus, often produced on special stalks or at the ends of specialized hyphae