Fungi and Plants Flashcards

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Myco means what?

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Fungi

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Which four kingdoms are in the Eukarya domain?

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Protists, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia

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What is the order of these fungi from furthest to closest common ancestors? AM fungi, chytrids, club fungi, sac fungi, and zygospore fungi

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Chytrids, zygospore fungi, AM fungi, sac fungi, and club fungi

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What does sapotrophic mean?

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Heterotrophic via absoprtion

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Fungi can have asexual reproduction by three things or sexual reproduction by what?

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Asexual – Fragmentation, budding, and spores
Sexual – Spores

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Forms symbiotic relationships with other organisms, decomposers, sapotrophic, and and most are multi-cellular are characteristics of what kingdom?

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Fungi

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Where does the mycelium grow? The part that grows above ground is for what?

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Underground portion of fungi and reproduction

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The armillaria ostoyae’s common name is what?

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Honey mushroom

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The homey mushroom growing in Malheur National Forest, Oregon has been growing for 8,650 years. It weights how many tons?

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35,000 tons

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Honey mushroom is 8.9 km^2. That amounts to what miles squared or how many acres?

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3.5 miles^2 or 2,200 acres

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The phylum Zygomycota is part of what kingdom? What is its common name?

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Fungi and the bread molds

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How many species of the phylum zygomycota are there? What is an example and what is the common name?

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1,060 species and rhizopus stolonifer/black bread mold

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The phylum Ascomycota is part of what kingdom? What is its common name and what are they categorized as?

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Fungi and sac fungi. Commonly known as the molds and mildews

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How many species of the phylum ascomycota are there? What is an example and what does it do?

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64,000 species and penicillium roqueforti, which gives blue cheese its flavor

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The phylum Basidiomycota is part of what kingdom? What is its common name and what are they known as?

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Fungi and club fungi. Commonly known as mushrooms and toadstools

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How many species of the phylum Basidiomycota are there?

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31,515 species

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Two examples of symbiotic fungi are what?

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Lichens and mycorrhizae

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Mycorrhizae is a relationship between fungi and what?

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Plants

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What does mycorrhizae mean?

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Fungus roots

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Lichens are a symbiotic relationship between what phylum of fungi and what bacteria?

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Ascomycota, or molds and mildews, and cyanobacteria

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Death angel, destroying angel, death cap, and fool’s mushroom are four examples of what type of mushroom?

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Deadly fungi

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22
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95% of fatalities from this fungi are from what genus? How many species are there?

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Amanita and about 600 species

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Psychedelic mushrooms, or shrooms, are in what genus? How many species are there?

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Psilocybin and 190 species

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The four major groups of plants:

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Gymnosperms, angiosperms, seedless vascular plants, and nonvascular land plants

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Which two groups of plants are seed vascular plants?

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Angiosperms and gymnosperms

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What transports water and minerals?

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Xylem

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What transports sugars, hormones, RNAs, organic molecules, and etc?

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Phloem

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The xylem and phloem are found in vascular or nonvascular plants?

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Vascular plants

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29
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Does the xylem or phloem have two-way movement?

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Phloem

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30
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What is a cotyledon?

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Seed leaf

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31
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What group of plants are naked seeds and produces a cone to reproduce?

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Gymnosperms

32
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What group of plants are vessel seeds and are flowering plants?

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Angiosperms

33
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Two cotyledons are called what two things?

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Dicots or eudicots

34
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What evolved 600 mya from green algae?

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Nonvascular plants

34
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What supplies the nutrition a plant embryo needs to germinate and become established as a photosynthetic organism?

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Cotyledons

35
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Must live near water or a moist environment, 600 mya, have spores, and lack true roots, stems, and leaves are four characteristics of what plants?

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Nonvascular plants

36
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The phylum Bryophyta has how many species? 15,000, 9,000, or 200?

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15,000 species

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The phylum Marchantiophyta has how many species? 15,000, 9,000, or 200?

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9,000 species

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The phylum Anthocerophyta has how many species? 15,000, 9,000, or 200?

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200 species

39
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The phylum Bryophyta contains what type of plants?

A

Mosses

40
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The phylum Marchantiophyta contains what type of plants?

A

Liverworts

41
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The phylum Anthocerophyta contains what type of plants?

A

Hornworts

42
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Seedless vascular plants contains what two things?

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Ferns and fern “allies”

43
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Must live near water or a moist environment, 400 mya, have spores, and have true roots, stems, and leaves are four characteristics of what plants?

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Seedless vascular plants or fern and fern “allies”

44
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Nonvascular plants are also called what?

A

Bryophytes

45
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What phylum is the oldest group of vascular plants?

A

Lycophyta

46
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The phylum lycophyta is full of what type of mosses?

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Club mosses

47
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The phylum lycophyta has how many genera and species?

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5 genera and 1,150 species

48
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The phylum monilophyta has what three plants?

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Whisk ferns, horse tails, and ferns

49
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Whisk ferns have how many genera and species?

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2 genera and 17 species

50
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Horse tails have how many genera and species?

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1 genus and 15 species

51
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Ferns have how many genera and species?

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230 genera and 11,000 species

52
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Lycopodium and selagnella are two examples of what phylum?

A

Lycophyta

53
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Psilotum is an example of what plant?

A

Whisk ferns

54
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Equistum is an example of what plant?

A

Horse tails

55
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What is sorus (sori)?

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Cluster of spore-producing receptacles on the underside of a fern frond

56
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What plants have seeds, xylem & phloem, and fully adapted to land; no water needed to reproduce?

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Seeds plants or angiosperms/gymnosperms

57
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What three parts does the seed have?

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Seed coat, embryo, and food supply/endosperm

58
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What is the largest phyla of the gymnosperm?

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Conifers, or pinophyta

58
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What are the four phyla for gymnosperms? How many species total?

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Conifers, cycads, gnetophytes, and Ginkgo. 786 species

59
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How are angiosperms split?

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Monocotyledonous or eudicotyledonous

59
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What is the phylum name for conifers?

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Pinophyta

60
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Juniper, cypresses, firs, pines, redwoods, spruces, larches, hemlocks, yews, and boxwoods are examples of what phylum?

A

Pinophyta

61
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What is the common name of the pinus longaeva?

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Bristlecone pine

62
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What is the phylum name for the cycads?

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Cycadophyta

63
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Where are the cycadophyta plants found?

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Mainly tropical or hot places

64
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Ephaedra and welwitschia mirabilis are two examples of what phylum?

A

Gnetophyta

65
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The phylum Ginkgophyta has one species and is known as a living fossil because it is how old and what is its name?

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270 mya and Ginkgo biloba

66
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All angiosperms are in what phylum?

A

Anthophyta

67
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How many monocotyledon species are there? 65,000 or 1750,000?

A

65,000 species

68
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How many eudicotyledon species are there? 65,000 or 1750,000?

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175,000 species

68
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Cactus, dandelion, beans, poplars, and strawberries are examples of what?

A

Eudicotyledons

69
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Corn, wheat, rice, tulips, bamboo, orchids, and grasses are examples of what?

A

Monocotyledons

70
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The pistil has what three parts? Which sex does it belong to

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Stigma, style, and ovary. Female

71
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The stamen has what two parts? Which sex does it belong to?

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Anther and filament. Male

72
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What becomes the seed in a flowering plant?

A

Ovule

73
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What carries plant sperm cells?

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Pollen