Test for Module 10

Question 1

large, multicellular marine algae

Answer 1

seaweeds

Question 2

symbiotic relationships between fungal hyphae and plant roots

Answer 2

mycorrhizae

Question 3

A fungus that forms a ___ within the outer layers of human skin is the cause of athlete’s foot.

Answer 3

myclium

Question 4

What does balantidium coli cause?

Answer 4

dysentery

Question 5

Humans use fungi as

Answer 5

flavoring in certain foods, a source of antibiotics, ingredients in baking and brewing

Question 6

What is the function of the fruiting body of the mushroom?

Answer 6

producing spores

Question 7

What is the function of the mycelium?

Answer 7

feeding structure of the fungi

Question 8

Name five organisms in kingdom Protista that are pathogenic.

Answer 8

entamoeba, trypanosoma, balantidium coli, plasmodium, toxoplasma

Question 9

What does plasmodium cause?

Answer 9

malaria

Question 10

Based on nutrition, slime molds belong to which group of protists?

Answer 10

fungus-like

Question 11

plant-like protists

Answer 11

algae

Question 12

threadlike structures making up the bodies of most fungi

Answer 12

hyphae

Question 13

animal-like protists

Answer 13

protozoans

Question 14

a mutualistic pairing of a fungus and an alga

Answer 14

lichen

Question 15

Identify the organism

Answer 15

paramecium

Question 16

What does toxoplasma cause?

Answer 16

toxoplasmosis

Question 17

What does entamoeba cause?

Answer 17

dysentery

Question 18

Identify Structure B

Answer 18

mycelium

Question 19

Identify Structure A

Answer 19

fruiting body of the mushroom

Question 20

What are mushrooms?

Answer 20

fungal fruiting bodies

Question 21

Name some maladies caused by pathogenic fungi

Answer 21

crop damage from rusts or smuts, chestnut blight, dutch elm diseas, ergot of rye, potato wart, Athlete’s foot, ringworm, funcal infections caused by Candida yeast, Cordyceps infections in insects

Question 22

interwoven mat of hyphae that functions as a feeding structure of a fungus

Answer 22

mycelium

Question 23

mostly microscopic photosynthetic organisms that drift or swim near the surface of ponds, lakes, and oceans

Answer 23

phytophankton

Question 24

What is a dark fuzz that grows very rapidly on bread an example of?

Answer 24

mold

Question 25

eukaryotes that are not animals, plants, or fungi

Answer 25

protists

Question 26

What group of animal-like protists captures its food using pseudopods?

Answer 26

sarcodines

Question 27

What is a type of unicellular plant-like protist with beautiful glass-like cell walls?

Answer 27

diatom

Question 28

single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by simple cell division or by pinching of small "buds" from a parent cell

Answer 28

yeast

Question 29

What does trypanosoma cause?

Answer 29

African sleeping sickness

Question 30

What is the contractile vacuole used to do?

Answer 30

maintain water balance

Question 31

What group of protists does the paramecium belong to?

Answer 31

animal-like protists or protozoans