Unit 8 Study GUIDE

Question 1

Fungi

Answer 1

Heterotrophic
Multicellular
Imotile
Eukaryotic

Question 2

Plants

Answer 2

Autotrophic
Eukaryotic
Multicellular
Immotile

Question 3

How do fungi reproduce and with what?

Answer 3

All fungi can reproduce asexually. Most fungi can reproduce sexually as well. Fungi reproduce with spores.

Question 4

What is the life cycle of a fungus?

Answer 4

-Fungi start as spores, tiny single-celled structures that are fertilized and ready to grow.
- When a spore lands in a favorable spot (ex. Dead tree) it begins to grow.
- fungi can easily live for many years. Some upwards of 500.
- All fungi reproduce asexually, most can reproduce sexually.

Question 5

Fungal tissue structure

Answer 5

• cell wall, made of chitin
• hyphae, thread like filaments that Branch and intertwine
• mycelium, Large net of hyphae

Question 6

What is the ecological role of fungi?

Answer 6

Fungi are decomposers. They decompose plants and grow by making more and more hyphae in the dead thing they are eating.

Question 7

What are some ways fungi helps man?

Answer 7

Humans eat mushrooms.
Yeast is used to make bread and beer.
One species is the source of penicillin.

Question 8

What are some ways fungi harms man?

Answer 8

• athlete’s foot
• Chestnut blight
• ergotism
• several mushrooms are poisonous

Question 9

Three main types of fungi

Answer 9

Mushroom
Mold
Yeast

Question 10

Three Phyla

Answer 10

Zygomycota- molds
Ascomycota- Sac Fungi
Basidiomycota- club fungi (mushrooms)

Question 12

How do fungi eat?

Answer 12

Fungi eat by producing enzymes which digest their food outside of them. Then they absorb the nutrients.

Question 13

What is the symbiosis of fungi?

Answer 13

Fungi combined with either algae or cyanobacteria to form lichens. (Lichens gauge air quality)