Fungi Chp21

Question 1

What is a hypha

Answer 1

a tube or filament in a fungus

Question 2

What is mycelium

Answer 2

a visible mass of hyphae

Question 3

What is an obligate parasite

Answer 3

organism that can only take food from a live host

Question 4

What is a facultative parasite

Answer 4

an organism that can get its food from a live or dead host

Question 5

Example of edible fungi

Answer 5

standard field mushroom

Question 6

Example of a poisonous fungi

Answer 6

death cap, destroying angel

Question 7

Another name for common bread mold

Answer 7

rhizopus (learn diagram pg 253)

Question 8

What is sporulation

Answer 8

the process of making spores

Question 9

Describe how rhizopus reproduce asexually

Answer 9

spores grow at the tips of sporangiophores, when they dry out they open and release many spores

Question 10

What are the parts of rhizopus

Answer 10

rhizoids, hypha, mycelium, stolon, sporangiophore, apophysis, sporangium, columella

Question 11

Describe how rhizopus reproduce sexually

Answer 11

learn on page 254

Question 12

How do yeast reproduce

Answer 12

budding

Question 13

What is the economic importance of fungi (benefits)

Answer 13

yeast used to make beers, mushrooms are a food source

Question 14

What is the economic importance of fungi (disadvantages)

Answer 14

mould grows on bread, potato blight