Fungi | Vocab and StudyCards

Question 1

What domain are fungi apart of?

Answer 1

Domain Eukaryote

Question 2

Why are fungi important?

Answer 2

When the earliest plants did not have true roots and leaves for nutrition they formed symbiotic relationships with fungi in order to get nutrients.

Question 3

How do fungi get their nutrients?

Answer 3

They are hetetrophic and absorb nutrients from the enviroment

Question 4

Are fungi more related to plants or animals?

Answer 4

Animals

Question 5

What is the energy reserve of Fungi?

Answer 5

Glycogen

Question 6

How do fungi reproduce?

Answer 6

Asexually by producing spores

Question 7

Define the Hyphae

Answer 7

The fungal body which is comprised of threads aka the building block of the fungus

Question 8

Mycellium

Answer 8

The collection of hypae in a fungal body

Question 9

How can spores be carried?

Answer 9

By the wind

Question 10

What are other asexual fungi called

Answer 10

Yeasts

Question 11

What is the cell wall of fungi made up of?

Answer 11

Chitin

Question 12

How do fugi ingest their food?

Answer 12

Through the hyphae, they secrete enzymes that break down material into simple molecules

Question 13

List the 5 different types of fungi?

Answer 13

Chytrids
Zygomycetes
Ascomycetes
Sac Fungi 
Basidiomycetes

Question 14

List the 3 main differences of plants and fungi:

Answer 14

1) Plants have chloroplasts while fungi do not
2) Plant cell walls are made out of cellulose while fungi are made out of chitin
3) A plants energy reserve is starch while a fungi’s energy reserve is made out of glycogen

Question 15

What defines a fungi’s role in their enviroment

Answer 15

Their mode of nutrition

Question 16

What are the 3 modes of nutrition for fungi?

Answer 16

1) Decomposers
2) Parasitic
3) Mutualistic

Question 17

Why are chyrtids important?

Answer 17

They have caused amphibian decline and can effect animal behavior

Question 18

Are chytrids decompoers or parastic?

Answer 18

both

Question 19

What is an example of a Zygomycetes

Answer 19

Bread mold

Question 20

Zygomycetes hyphae will _______ food and absorb their nutrients

Answer 20

Penetrate

Question 21

Define ascocarp

Answer 21

The sac and cup fungi or Ascomycetes

Question 22

Define Ascus

Answer 22

The fingerlike sac the developers during sexual reproduction

Question 23

Give exmaples of Basidiomycetes

Answer 23

Mushrooms, shelf fungi, and some molds

Question 24

Basidium

Answer 24

The clublike strucutre on the Basidiomycetes that is defined by a club structure

Question 25

Why is the Basidiomycetes important

Answer 25

They are important decomposers

Question 26

Where are spores reproduced in the Ascomycetes

Answer 26

They are produced internally in the sac

Question 27

What is an imperfect fungi

Answer 27

Fungi that can only reproduce asexually

Question 28

What does is mean by fungal associations

Answer 28

When fungi are involved in symbiotic relationships with a number of organisms

Question 29

What are lichens often mistaken as?

Answer 29

Mosses

Question 30

The lichen is a relationship between:

Answer 30

Fungi and algae

Question 31

The mycorrhizae has a _____ relationship betwen plants and fungi

Answer 31

Mutualistic

Question 32

Describe the mycorrhizar synmbiotic relationship:

Answer 32

As plants receive nutrients & water from fungi while fungi receive carbohydrate from the plants