Fungi Basics

Question 1

Thallus Mycelium

Answer 1

Body of the fungi

Question 2

What is Thallus Mycelium made of?

Answer 2

Hyphae

Question 3

Where does absorption of nutrients take place in fungi?

Answer 3

Thallus Mycelium

Question 4

The growth of Thallus Mycelium?

Answer 4

very fast and usually larger than the fungi itself

Question 5

Septate

Answer 5

hyphae- has diving walls and has pores that allow movement of organelles and other substances between those compartments

Question 6

Coenocytic

Answer 6

One cell, no diving walls, multiple nuclei

Question 7

Some hyphae are modified into ____ which ____

Answer 7

Rhizoids which anchor some fungi to their substrate

Question 8

Mutualism

Answer 8

Both organisms benefit from each other

Question 9

Lichens

Answer 9

Photosynthetic algae/cyanobacteria and fungus

Question 10

What lives with algae or cyanobacteria

Answer 10

Lichens

Question 11

What can grow on environments that are exposed surfaces and harsh environments

Answer 11

Lichens

Question 12

The ___ of the ___ in the ___ can provide a moist environment for the photosynthetic bacteria or algae

Answer 12

Hyphae, fungi, lichen

Question 13

What receives fixed carbon from the algae?

Answer 13

Fungus

Question 14

What is sensitive in air pollution that makes it hard for them to live in large cities

Answer 14

Lichens

Question 15

What is crust like and grows on flat surfaces such as trees and rocks?

Answer 15

Crustose

Question 16

What is leafy, grows parallel to substrate, attached very loosely, and has a layer of the algae and hyphae and are intertwined?

Answer 16

Foliose

Question 17

What is shrubby, highly branched, and can grow upwards?

Answer 17

Fruticose

Question 18

Mycorrhizae

Answer 18

Fungi and plant roots

Question 19

What is critical to the success of land plants?

Answer 19

Mycorrhizae

Question 20

Mycorrhizae gets ___ and ___ ___ from plants

Answer 20

sugars & amino acid

Question 21

Fungus provides grow hormones and proteins roots from…

Answer 21

pathogenic microorganisms that appear

Question 22

An example of Commensalism

Answer 22

Trychomycetes

Question 23

Where are Commensalism/Trychomycetes found?

Answer 23

hind gut of arthropods aquatic habitats and other invertebrates

Question 24

Example of Parasitism? And what is it passes on from?

Answer 24

Ringworm, athletes foot; skin-to-skin contact

Question 25

Parasitism is ___ and ___

Answer 25

Faculative and Obligate

Question 26

Faculative

Answer 26

grown with or without a host

Question 27

Obligate

Answer 27

able to grow in a specific host

Question 28

What is it considered when some fungi can trap microscopic protists or animals?

Answer 28

Predation

Question 29

What can Predation do to catch and eat a prey?

Answer 29

secrete sticky substances and the hyphae of the fungi will then grow quickly, form a ring with a diameter fitting its prey, trapping and ingesting it

Question 30

An example of Predation

Answer 30

Nematode

Question 31

Meiosis give…

Answer 31

Variation and genetically different individuals

Question 32

What does Meiosis produce?

Answer 32

Haploid cells

Question 33

Mitosis makes…

Answer 33

Clones of itself

Question 34

What does Mitosis retain?

Answer 34

Ploidy

Question 35

Reproduction; Meiosis vs. Mitosis

Answer 35

Meiosis: sexual
Mitosis: asexual