Kingdom Fungi Flashcards
_____ are heterotrophs, which means that they cannot make their own food.
Fungi
What release chemicals that digest the substance on which they grow and then absorb the nutrients from the digested food?
Fungi
What are the fungi that obtain their food from the remains of dead organisms?
Decomposers
These grow in moist and, warm places such as moist food, damp tree barks, lawns coated dew, damp forest floors, and even wet bathroom tiles. What is this?
Fungi
Most _____ are _____________ or made up of many cells.
Fungi; multicellular
Multicellular fungi are made up of long threadlike structures called ______.
Hyphae
What branches and twists together in many ways, making fungi appear in various shapes?
Hyphae
What are the continuous threads of fungal hyphae?
Cyptoplasm
What is the living material inside a cell that contains many nuclei?
Cytoplasm
What are so small and light that they can be carried by winds to great distances?
Spores
What is the stemlike umbrella structure that a mushroom has?
Stalk
What is the structure that resembles a short skirt?
Ring
What is on the top of the stalk?
Cap
Where are the spores often located?
Gills
What extends from the stalk to the outer edge of the cap?
Gills
What is a fungus consisting of a single cell?
Yeast
What are useful in the production of bread, vitamins, and even vaccines like the vaccine for hepatitis B?
Yeast
What makes the dough soft and fluffy?
Yeast
How does yeasts reproduce?
Budding
What are used in food processing?
Molds
What are the processed food that use mold?
Tofu or bean curd, soy beans, and cheese
Who was the Scottish scientist that discovered the mold Penicillium?
Alexander Fleming
What can kill a certain infection-causing bacteria?
Penicilium
What can kill a certain infection-causing bacteria?
Penicillium
