Protists and Fungi Quiz Flashcards
Which fungi group is known as the zygote fungi and produces spores in zygosporangia?
Zygomycota
What is the main function of a fungus’s hyphae?
Absorption of nutrients
Which statement best defines a protist?
A eukaryote that is either animal-like, plant-like, or fungus-like
A biologist is in the process of classifying a newly discovered fungus. The observed characteristics include chitin in the cell walls and flagellated spores. To which group does the organism most likely belong?
Chrytridiomycota
What is unique about the members of the group of fungi to which Penicillium notatum belongs?
They lost the reproductive phase
A microbiologist is in the process of classifying a newly discovered organism. Its characteristics include:
· eukaryotic
· multicellular
· reproduces by spores
· motile in some stage of its life cycle
· decomposer
Which type of organism is it most likely to be?
Fungus-like protist
Which feature distinguishes slime molds from fungi?
Slime molds are able to move
Which characteristic distinguishes the five groups of fungi?
Reproductive structure
Some protists form long, foot-like projections of their cell membrane and cytoplasm that are used for movement and to capture food. What is the name of these structures?
Pseudopods
A microbiologist is in the process of classifying a newly discovered organism. Its characteristics include:
· eukaryotic
· unicellular
· has a cell wall
· autotrophic
Which type of organism is it most likely to be?
Diatom
