Kingdom Fungi

Question 1

Fungi structure

Answer 1

-unicellular or multicellular
-network of filaments make up the body(hyphae)
-Branching network of hyphae(mycellum)
-Divisions of hyphae(septum)
-Cap and stalk
-Cell wall made of chitin

Question 2

Mode of nutrition for fungi

Answer 2

-Heterotrophs
-absorb food
-extracellular digestion: enzymes digest food externally, and is absorbed into fungus by hyphae

Question 3

mode of reproduction

Answer 3

Fragmentation(asexual): pieces of hyphae break off and grow into new hyphae

Spores(sexually): wind blown reproduction structures like pollen. Spores can make multiple copies of themselves(asexual)

Question 4

Major phyla for fungi

Answer 4

• Zygomycotes: Bread and fruit mold, parasites of insects. Bread mold takes food and nutrients from bread and damages its surface. Grows better on whole wheat bread since it has more protiens

-Basidiomycotes: lawn mushrooms, decomposers

-Ascomycotes: mildews, truffles, yeast, some cause plants diseases

-Deuteromycotes: imperfect fungi, produce spores called conidia

Question 5

Importance of Fungi

Answer 5

• decomposes
• industrial/economic benefits(alchohal, food, bread)
  -destruction of food, lumber, paper and cloth

Question 6

What is Penicilum?

Answer 6

-Fungus used to produce antibiotic penicillin
-kills bacteria by interfering with their ability to build cell walls
-bacteria have become mostly immune to penicillin

Question 7

Parasitic fungi

Answer 7

specialized cells that feed on living cells. Cause diseases like athletes foot and ringworm.

Question 8

What is ringworm?

Answer 8

• A clinical condition caused by fungal infection on the skin.
• Fungi that causes ringworm feeds on keratin which is found on our skin nails and hair.
• Thrive on skin that is moist and warm

Question 9

What is Symbiotic Fungi?

Answer 9

Relationship with plants and animals where both benefit

Question 10

what is mycorrhiza?l

Answer 10

when hyphae grows around plants and animals.

-Hyphae absorbs minerals from soil and feeds it to plants roots

• Increasees the plants roots surface area, and in return fungi get fed food and sugars during photosynthesis

Question 11

What are Lichens?

Answer 11

• Pale moss which grows on trees or rocks.
• Symbiotic relationship between fungi and cyanobacteria
• The fungus provided water and nutrients for the bacteria and in rerun the fungus receives food made through photosynthesis

Question 12

What is Rhizopus stolonifer?

Answer 12

Bread mold

Question 13

Zygomycotes

Answer 13

Bread and fruit mold, parasites of insects

Question 14

Basidimycotes

Answer 14

Lawn mushrooms, decomposers

Question 15

Ascomycotes

Answer 15

Mildews and truffles. can cause plant disease

Question 16

Deuteromycotes

Answer 16

“Imperfect fungi”

produce spores called conidia