Pathology L4.1 Fungi

Question 1

How do fungi take up nutrients

Answer 1

By osmotrophy (digest externally than absorb directly through cell wall)

Question 2

Mycelium

Answer 2

Body of filamentous fungus

Question 3

Hyphae

Answer 3

Root like structure of mycelium that is composed of microscopic, branching, tubular cells

Question 4

Appressorium

Answer 4

Specialized structure of fungus that help attachment during infection

Question 5

Haustoria

Answer 5

A root like structure that forms when a specialized fungal hyphae penetrates a plant cell wall and expands inside the cell

Question 6

How can fungi reproduce

Answer 6

Asexually by budding, mycelial separation, and fungal spores

Question 7

Spores

Answer 7

A dispersal unit that consists of 1 or several cells capable of forming new hyphea and do not contain an embryo

Question 8

Fruiting body

Answer 8

Complex fungal structures that contain or bear spores

Question 9

Types of fruiting bodies

Answer 9

Perithecium (sexual)
Basidium
Aecium
Pycnidum (asexual)

Question 10

What are spores that are formed asexually called

Answer 10

Mitospores

Question 11

What are spores that are formed sexually called

Answer 11

Melospores

Question 12

How are fungi catagorized

Answer 12

What plant stage they affect (seeds, seedling, adult)
What part of the plant they affect (roots, leaves, shoots, etc)

Question 13

What are the 2 names of fungi based on

Answer 13

Sexual stage (teleomorph) - preferred name
Asexual stage (anamorph)

Question 14

Phylum and class of ascomycota

Answer 14

Phylum ascomycota
Class ascomycetes

Question 15

What is the largest group of fungi

Answer 15

Ascomycota

Question 16

Characteristics of ascomycota mycelium

Answer 16

Well developed haploid mycelium with septa at regular intervals

Question 17

What are sexual ascomycota spores called

Answer 17

Ascospores

Question 18

What are asexual ascomycota spores called

Answer 18

Conidia

Question 19

What are a group of 8 ascomycota spores in a sac called

Answer 19

Ascus

Question 20

What is the fruiting body of a basidiomycota called

Answer 20

Basidiocarp

Question 21

Second largest group of fungi

Answer 21

Basidiomycotya

Question 22

What are sexual spores of basidiomycota called

Answer 22

Basidiospores

Question 23

What is a group of 4 sexual basidiomycota spores called

Answer 23

Basidium

Question 24

Kingdom chromista phylum and other common name

Answer 24

Oomycota
Water mold

Question 25

Oocycota _______ closely related to true fungi

Answer 25

Is not

Question 26

What are the sexual spores called in the kingdom chromista

Answer 26

Oospores

Question 27

Examples of kingdom chromista organisms

Answer 27

Late blight of potato and tomato (phytophthora infestans)
Damping off (pythium sp)
Aphanomyces root rot of pulses

Question 28

Protista phylums

Answer 28

Myxoomycota
Plasmodiophoromycota

Question 29

Example of protista

Answer 29

Club root of canola caused by plasmodiophora brassicae