Jeopardy 2 Flashcards
What is the importance of fungus?
Essential for breaking down organic materials and recycling nutrients
Form mutualistic relationships with plants, cyanobacteria, algae, and animals
What was one of the first things to grow on rock without soil?
Lycons
What types of lifestyles can fungi live?
Decomposers
Mutualists
Parasites
What are single celled fungi?
Yeasts
What are mutlicellular fungi?
Filaments
What is mycelia?
Network of branched hyphae that are adapted for absorption
What are the cell walls of fungi made of?
Chitin
What are hyphae?
Individual branches under the ground, from fungi
What are septa?
Divide the hyphae into different cells
What are coenocytic hyphae?
Hyphae that contain no septa
What are haustoria?
Specialized hyphae that can penetrate into the tissue of their host
What is the order of sexual reproduction?
Spores Germination Mycellium Plasmogamy Heterokaryotic stage Karyogamy Zygote
What is the order of asexual reproduction?
Spores
Germination
Mycellium
Spore - producing structures
What is plasmogamy?
The union of two parent mycellia
What is karyogamy?
Fusion of two haploid cells to create a zygote
What is heterokaryon?
When two haploid nuclei coexist in one mycellium but haven’t fused yet
What are the five groups of fungi and what is a characteristic of each?
Chytrids - flagellated sperm Zygomycetes - Produce zygosporangia Gameromycetes - Form arbuscular mycorrhizae Ascomycetes - Sac fungi Basidiomycetes - Have basidium
What is zygosporangia?
Metabollically inactive spores that are resistant to freezing and drying
What is arbuscular mycorrhizae?
Fungi penetrates host cell and form hyphae inside
What are sac fungi?
Spores produced in saclike asci