Mycology and Virology Flashcards
What is the study of fungi?
Mycology
Give the Greek words of Mycology and its corresponding meaning.
Mykes/Mykos - mushroom
Logos - study of/knowledge of
Founder of Mycology
Pier Antonio Micheli
This characteristic describes fungi with a lack of properties of photosynthesis and chemotrophic.
Achlorophyllous
Two types of spores
Sexual and asexual
Two types of spores
Sexual and asexual
It is a single-celled fungus with a thick cell wall and can be multiplied asexually by budding
Yeast cell
Vegetative unit of moulds
Hyphae
Two types of mycelium
Vegetative and Aerial mycelium
This is a filamentous fungus that reproduces through sexual or asexual means
Mold/Mould
This is the fungi that produces Gibberellin
Gibberella fujikuroi
This acid elicits the formation of zygophores in Muroc mucedo
Trisporic acid
This fungi is used for preparing citric and gluconic acid
Aspergillus niger
It is one of the importance of fungi that described fungi as decomposers
Agent of Decay
It is a symbiotic relationship between hyphae of some soil-borne fungi and the roots of the plants
Mycorrhiza
What is fungi involved in penicillin
Penicillium notatum and Penicillium chrysogenum
It is a fungus that is being used for producing characteristic flavor in blue cheese
Penicillium roqueforti
Rhizopus nigricans produced _______.
Steroids in “the pill”
List the three edible mushrooms
Agaricus bisporus (button mushroom) Lentinus edodes (Shiitake) Volvariella volvacea (straw mushroom)
It is one of the importance of fungi that describe fungi having the ability to produce visible light in the dark
BIoluminescence
