G.4 Fungus-like Protists

Question 1

Fruiting body

Answer 1

Reproductive structures produced by many fungi (i.e. mushrooms are fruiting bodies)

Question 2

Acrasin

Answer 2

Substance that cellular slime moles secrete that functions as a chemotactic attraction agent that draws similar amoeboid cells towards them to become a huge mobile multicellular mass

Question 3

Cyclic AMP (cAMP)

Answer 3

Molecule formed by the loss of two phosphate groups from ATP (amoeboid cells from Phylum Ascrasiomycota have positive chemotaxic responses to cAMP)

Question 4

Plasmodium/ plasmodium

Answer 4

Plasmodium - genus name of sporozoa that cause malaria

plasmodium - body form of a slime mold

Question 5

Water mold

Answer 5

Parasitic or saprobic organisms (pertaining to organisms living in highly polluted waters or to saprotrophs) living in fresh water or moist soil

Question 6

Downy mildew

Answer 6

Common name for particular mold growth of foliage; caused by an oomycete