Introduction To Fungi

Question 1

Kingdom fungi

Answer 1

Consists of eukaryotic heterotrophs
Usually multi-cellular
Feed by acting as decomposers
Absorbs

Question 2

Eg of how fungi eat

Answer 2

Fungus growing on a piece of wood can break down cellulose. The broken down cellulose becomes glucose- food

Question 3

Mycelium

Answer 3

Body of fungus

Consists of hundreds of thousands of hyphae

Question 4

Hypha/hyphae

Answer 4

Thread of tissue

Question 5

Divided hypha

Answer 5

Divided by cross-walls.

As a result, this hypha is a chain of distinct cells

Question 6

Undivided hypha

Answer 6

Lacks cross-walls.

Hard to see where one cell ends and the next begins

Question 7

Fruiting body

Answer 7

A reproductive organ of a fungus. Where the fungus makes it’s spores. Different phyla of fungi have different fruiting bodies

Question 8

3 phyla of fungi

Answer 8

Phylum zygomycota
Phylum ascomycota
Phylum basidiomycota

Question 9

Phylum zygomycota

Answer 9

Common molds
Undivided hyphae
Use sporangium to make their 
spores.
Sexual repdouction
Eg. Bread molds

Question 10

Phylum ascomycota

Answer 10

Sac fungi
Divided hyphae
Sexual reproduction is complex
Produces ascus that contains 8 spores 
Eg. Yeast

Question 11

Ascus

Answer 11

Sac like structure

Question 12

Phylum basidiomycota

Answer 12

Club fungi
Divided hyphae
Life cycles similar to those of sac fungi, except they produce basidium, not ascus.
Each basidium has 4 spores.

Question 13

Mushroom

Answer 13

Fruiting body made by some club fungi
Contains millions of basidia.
Reproductive organ of the fungus.

Question 14

Eg. Club fungi

Answer 14

Mushrooms
Shelf fungi
Puff balls
Smuts
Rusts