Test 2 fungi Flashcards
What is the study of fungi called?
Mycology
What are hyphae?
Microscopic branching filaments filled with cytoplasm and nuclei
What is a mycelium?
Masses of intertwined Hyphae; visible without a microscope. When spores land and spread and land in a suitable place.
What is a saprophyte?
A plant, fungus, or microorganism that lives on dead or decaying organic matter.
What is a spore?
A minute, typically one-celled, reproductive unit capable of giving rise to a new individual without sexual fusion, characteristic of lower plants, fungi, and protozoans.
How many cells are required to form an asexual spore?
A single cell
What is an example of a Zygomycota?
Bread mold
What is a sporangia? What Phylum has this structure?
Spore in a vessel/ Sporanigiohphores
What is the name of the sexual spores made by Zygomycota?
Zygospores
What is the name of the asexual spores made by Zygomycota?
Sporangia Spores
What are some examples of Ascomycota?
Examples of sac fungi include morels, truffles, brewer’s yeast and baker’s yeast, dead man’s fingers, and cup fungi
What is an ascus?
A sac, typically cylindrical in shape, in which the spores of ascomycete fungi develop.
What is a conidia?
A spore produced asexually by various fungi at the tip of a specialized hypha.
What is an example of Basidiomycota?
Mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, earth stars, smuts, rusts, bracket fungi
What does a Basidiomycota use its gills for?
Sexual reproduction
