Module 4 Vocabulary

Question 1

Extracellular Digestion

Answer 1

Digestion that takes place outside the cell.

Question 2

Mycelium

Answer 2

The part of a fungus responsible for extracellular digestion and absorption of digested food.

Question 3

Hypha

Answer 3

A filament of fungal cells.

Question 4

Rhizoid hypha

Answer 4

A hypha that is imbedded in the material on which the fungus grows.

Question 5

Aerial hypha

Answer 5

A hypha that is not imbedded in the material on which the fungus grows.

Question 6

Sporophore

Answer 6

Specialized aerial hyphae that produces to make more filaments.

Question 7

Stolon

Answer 7

An aerial hypha that asexually reproduces to make more filaments.

Question 8

Haustorium

Answer 8

A type of parasitic fungus that enters the host’s cells absorbing nutrition directly from the cytoplasm.

Question 9

Chitin

Answer 9

A chemical that provides both toughness and flexibility .

Question 10

Membrane

Answer 10

A thin covering of a tissue.

Question 11

Fermentation

Answer 11

The anaerobic breakdown of sugars into smaller molecules.

Question 12

Zygospore

Answer 12

A zygote surrounded by a hard, protective covering.

Question 13

Zygote

Answer 13

The result of sexual reproduction when each parent contributes half of the DNA necessary for the offspring.

Question 14

Antibiotic

Answer 14

A chemical secreted by a living organism that kills or reduces the reproduction rate of other organisms.

Question 15

Basidiomycota

Answer 15

Form sexual spores on clublike basidia.

Question 16

Ascomycota

Answer 16

Form sexual spores in saclike asci.

Question 17

Zygomycota

Answer 17

Form sexual spores where hyphae fuse.

Question 18

Chytridiomycota

Answer 18

Form spores with flagella.

Question 19

Deuteromycota

Answer 19

Fungi with no known method of sexual reproduction.

Question 20

Myxomycota

Answer 20

Fungi that look like protozoa for much of their lives.