Fungi pp pt 1 Flashcards
Fungie evolved __MYA
Evolved ~1,500 MYA
Like plants and animals, fungi trace their ancestry to
protists
Molecular data tells us that animals and fungi are more closely related to…
to each other than either is to plants.
Fungal anatomy does not lend itself to becoming
fossilized
The AM (arbuscular mycorrhizae) fungi exist only in association with
plant roots
AM is
arbuscular mycorrhizae
Kingdom Fungi contains over ___species
80,000 species
most fungi are 4
Most are multicellular (yeast are unicelluar) eukaryotes
Are heterotrophs
Some are saprotrophs
Some are parasitic
Several fungi have mutualistic relationships with
other organisms
Body of most fungi is the ___, a network of thread-like hyphae
mycelium
a network of thread-like hyphae
mycelium
Septate fungi have hyphae with
cross walls
Non-septate fungi are
multinucleated
Like animals, fungi do not have____, are ____, store food as _____, their cell wall material is ____, like insect exoskeletons
chloroplasts. heterotrophic, glycogen, chitin,
Like plants, fungi have a ____and ____, and can reproduce ____and____. They can produce ____
cell wall and vacuoles, sexually and asexually, spores.