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Major Fungal Phyla Flashcards

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Chytridomycota (Chytrids)

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Derivation of Phylum name: chytridion (little pot)

  • Special name of their spores: zoospores
  • Principle reproductive mechanism: sexual
  • General role(s) and environments:
  • Aquatic environments
  • Decomposition
  • Special
    features/characteristics:
  • Responsible for chytridiomycosis
  • Mutualistic relationship with ruminants
  • The only fungus with flagellated spores
  • Specific examples
  • Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
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Zygomycota (Zygomycetes)

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Derivation of Phylum name: Zygosporangium

  • Special name of their spores: Sporangiospores
  • Principle reproductive mechanism: sexual
  • General role(s) and environments: terrestrial
  • Special features/characteristics:
  • Coenocytic
  • Fungal allergic responses
  • Ectomycorrhizal associations
  • Examples:
    Bread molds, molds on fruit, dung cannon
    fungus (Pilobus sp.), Brood X (Massospora sp.)
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Glomeromycota (Glomeromycetes)

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Derivation of Phylum name: Glomero = ball-like

  • Special name of their spores: glomerospores
  • General examples of the types of fungi included:
    Plant root-associated mutualists
  • Principle reproductive mechanism: asexual
  • General role(s) and environments:
    Arbuscular mycorrhizal associations
  • Special features/characteristics:
  • Coenocytic
  • All known species form arbuscular mycorrhizae
    with plants
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Ascomycota

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Derivation of Phylum name:

Refers to the sexual ascus structure

  • Special name of their spores:
  • Sexual: ascospores
  • Asexual: conidia
  • General examples of the types of fungi included:
    bread yeast, brewers yeast, morels, Penicillium sp.
    Aspergillus species, cup fungus
  • Principle reproductive mechanism: asexual
  • General role(s) and environments:
    Decomposing wood, grains, fruit
  • Special features/characteristics: includes many
    edible species, penicillin, and aflatoxins
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Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)

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Derivation of Phylum name:
Refers to the sexual basidium structure

  • Special name of their spores: basidiospores
  • General examples of the types of fungi included:
    Button mushrooms, puffballs, shelf fungi, smut,
    rust
  • Principle reproductive mechanism: sexual
  • General role(s) and environments:
    Decomposing wood, cellulosic materials
  • Special features/characteristics:
    Includes many edible species, hallucinogenic
    species, toxic species, and Fairy rings
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Phylum name for chitidiomycota (chytrids) come from what?

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chytridion (little pot)
(reproductive strucutre, not the fruiting body)

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Special name of Chytridomycota spores?

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zoospores

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Principle reproductive mechanism for Chytridomycota?

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Sexual

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What is the only fungus with flagellated spores?

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Chytridomycota (chytrids)

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General role(s) and environments of Chytridomycota (chytrids)

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  • Aquatic environments
  • Decomposition
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Special features/characteristics of Chytridomycota (chytrids)

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  • Responsible for chytridiomycosis(frog murder)
  • Mutualistic relationship with ruminants
  • The only fungus with flagellated spores
  • Specific examples
  • Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
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Special features/characteristics of Zygomycota (Zygomycetes):

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  • Coenocytic
  • Fungal allergic responses
  • Ectomycorrhizal associations
  • Examples:
    Bread molds, molds on fruit, dung cannon
    fungus (Pilobus sp.), Brood X (Massospora sp.)
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Special name of their spores: Zygomycota (Zygomycetes)

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Sporangiospores

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  • Principle reproductive mechanism: Zygomycota (Zygomycetes)
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Sexual

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Derivation of Phylum name: Glomeromycota (Glomeromycetes)

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Glomero = ball-like

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Special name of their spores: Glomeromycota (Glomeromycetes)

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glomerospores

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Zygomycota (Zygomycetes)* General role(s) and environments:

Also Examples:

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terrestrial

Bread molds, molds on fruit, dung cannon
fungus (Pilobus sp.), Brood X (Massospora sp.)

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General examples of the types of fungi included: Glomeromycota (Glomeromycetes)

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Plant root-associated mutualists

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Principle reproductive mechanism: Glomeromycota (Glomeromycetes)

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asexual

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General role(s) and environments: Glomeromycota (Glomeromycetes)

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-terrestrial
-Arbuscular mycorrhizal associations

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  • Special features/characteristics: Glomeromycota (Glomeromycetes)
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  • Coenocytic
  • All known species form arbuscular mycorrhizae
    with plants
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Derivation of Phylum name: Ascomycota

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Refers to the sexual ascus structure

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Special name of their spores: Ascomycota

(hint: two)

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Sexual: ascospores
Asexual: conidia

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General examples of the types of fungi included: Ascomycota

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bread yeast, brewers yeast, morels, Penicillium sp.
Aspergillus species, cup fungus

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Principle reproductive mechanism: Ascomycota

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General role(s) and environments: Ascomycota

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Decomposing wood, grains, fruit

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Special features/characteristics: Ascomycota

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includes many
edible species, penicillin, and aflatoxins

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Derivation of Phylum name: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)

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Refers to the sexual basidium structure

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Special name of their spores: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)

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basidiospores

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General examples of the types of fungi included: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)

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Button mushrooms, puffballs, shelf fungi, smut,
rust

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Principle reproductive mechanism: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)

30
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What 3 fungal phyla are grody little animals and prefer to reproduce sexually?

hint: baszycho

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-Chytridomycota (Chytrids)

-Zygomycota (Zygomycetes)

-Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)

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General role(s) and environments: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)

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Decomposing wood, cellulosic materials

31
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Special features/characteristics: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)

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Includes many edible species, hallucinogenic
species, toxic species, and Fairy rings

32
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What two fungal phyla are coenocytic?

hint: glozo

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Zygomycota and the Glomeromycota

33
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How many major fungal phyla are there?

34
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Deuteromycetes-

what is this classification, and
fungi in this don’t do what?

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-fungi that do not reproduce sexually and have no sexual reproductive features

-just a temporary we don’t know wtf you are holding group

-would take DNA sequencing to figure it out

35
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is Deuteromycetes a true phylum?

36
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Fungi perfecti-

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Fungi that can do both sexual and asexul reproduction are considered “perfect” = complete (they can commit sexual, everyone can do asexual)

37
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Fungi imperfecti:

(bonus: placed in the holding group _________________ ?)

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Imperfect fungi (no sex!) group of fungi without fruiting body so we don’t know where to put them

Deuteromycetes-

38
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What three fungal phyla form ectomycorrhizal associations?

(acronym kinda sounds like egyptian goddess of cats I think)

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Zygomycetes, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota

BAZ

39
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Chytrimycota fruiting bodies- look like what?

(sorry I cant attach pictures :’) )

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Globular fruiting body (containing spores), lots of little hyphae branchin out

**see unit III pg 79

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Zygomycota isn’t named for fruiting body but rather survival mechanism, what does this structure look like?

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-thick walled structure
(resistant to radiation, dessication, chemicals like bleach, nuclear war

-Zygosporangium hard coating

-looks like ((double icecream cone)

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Is the zygosporangium the fruiting body?

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NO, survival mechanism that waits to germinate until nice place

-Germinates into sporangium on a short stalk (that is the spore, the zygosporangium has no spores inside it, only one like this)

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Is the zygosporangium diploid?

43
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Glomeromycetes-
fruiting body yes or no?

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Have the genes, seem too shy to do the sex in front of any of us tho

so as to our knowlege no

44
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Glomeromycetes- spores called Glomerospores

why, and look like what?

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Named bc look like a bunch of little bals (globular)

Looks like a blob with a lifeline to other blobs all connected to one line

**see unit III pg 98

45
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What fungal phyla has asexual spores and sexual spores?

(bonus for asexual spore name and sexual fruiting body)

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Ascomycota

Conidia- asexual spores

Sexual fruiting body-Ascocarp (collection of asci) forms and then fully developed discharges spores all at once

46
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What do asexual Ascomycota spores (conidia) look like?

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Skeleton hand

(google conidia, slides ones be hidden)

47
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What does the fruiting body of Ascomycota sexual fruiting body (ascocarp) look look like?

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**see unit III pg 112-114

but a bunch of like tubes of spores in a linear chain, all along cup in cup fungi)

48
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What is the name of the Ascomycota sexual fruiting body (only one)

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Sexual fruiting body-Ascocarp (collection of asci) forms and then fully developed discharges spores all at once

49
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10/10 would recommend reviewing sexual Ascomycota reproduction real quick

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unit III pg 111

50
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Why do fungi do freaky things to a lot of us?

(us being non-fungal organisms in general)

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-Fungi make a lot of strange metabolites, many fit into our processes and do stuff, happen to interact with our processess

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Basidiomycota- name of spores?

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bacidiospores

52
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Basidiomycota- what does the fruiting body (bacisium) look like?

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Looks like BK crown,

The basiocarp gills are lined with the fruiting
body: bacisium

**see unit III pg 123

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