Module #4 Review Questions Flashcards
Name the five features common to most fungi.
- Saprophytic feeding
- Extracellar digestion
- Reproduction by spores
- Multicellular makeup
- Cell walls containing chitin
What is the name of the hyphae that have cells separated by cell walls?
Septate hyphae
What do Septate hyphae in which cytoplasm is exchanged?
Pores
What is the name of hyphae that have no separations between the cells and the nuclei are spread throughout the hypha?
Nonseparate hyphae
What do pores allow Septate hypae to exchange with other septate hypae?
Cytoplasm
What type of hyphae are imbedded in the material on which the fungus grows?
Rhizoids hyphae
What type of hyphae are not embedded in the material on which the fungus grows?
Aerial hyphae
If hypha produces spores it is called what?
A Sporophore
If a hypha asexually produces more filaments it is called what?
A stolon
A hypha that enters the cells of the living organism and draws nutrients directly from the cytoplasm of those cells is called what?
A Haustorium
All fungi are assumed (but not all are confirmed) to have some _________ mode of spore formation.
Sexual
What is the name of the specialized spore-forming structures that are involved in sexual reproduction of fungus?
Fruiting bodies
The sexual reproduction between what two organisms result in fruiting bodies?
Compatible Hyphae
One mode of asexual reproduction in fungi involves the lengthening of a what?
Stolon
After the stolen reaches a certain length,
what of the new fungus is form in the hypae?
Mycelium
In Kingdom fungi members of phylum Basidiomycota form sexual spores on what?
Club-like Basidia
In kingdom Fungi. Members of phylum Ascomycota form sexual spores in what?
Saclike asci
In kingdom Fungi. Members of phylum Zygomycota form sexual spores where?
where hyphae fuse
In kingdom Fungi. Members of phylum Chytridiomycota form spores with what feature?
Flagella
In kingdom Fungi Members of Deuteromycota do not have what?
No known form of sexual reproduction
In kingdom Fungi Members of Deuteromycota are sometimes called what.
imperfect fungi
In kingdom Fungi. Members of phylum Myxomycota are placed in what kingdom by some biologists?
Protista
Why are Members of phylum Myxomycota are placed in Kingdom Protista by other biologists?
because they resemble protozoa for much of their lives
Mushrooms make up most of the organisms in what phylum?
Basidiomycota
In the mushroom life cycle, mycelia grow from what?
Spores
In the mushroom life cycle, two mycelia will do what for sexual reproduction.
Fuse
In a mushrooms life cycle, the resulting mycelium will grow, crowding out the what.
parent mycelia
In the mushroom life cycle, many hyphae will enclose themselves in a membrane, forming what stage of the mushroom.
The Button stage
In the mushrooms life cycle, what will eventually emerge from the membrane?
A fruiting body or stipe and cap
The fruiting body, in the mushroom’s life cycle, will be composed of what three basic components?
- stipe
- cap
- gills