Vocabulary

Question 1

Septate

Answer 1

Porous walls in the hyphen of most fungi that strengthen and help define compartments

Question 2

Aseptate

Answer 2

Not limited, freed, and not divided into cells or sections by the septa

Question 3

Mycellium

Answer 3

Vegetative thallus of a fungus

Question 4

Spore

Answer 4

Microscopic particles that allows for reproduction in fungi

Question 5

Sporocarp

Answer 5

Any complex fungal structure that contains or bears spores

Question 6

Conidium

Answer 6

Asexual nonmotile spore usually at the tip of hyphae

Question 7

Conidiophore

Answer 7

Simple or branched hypha, where conidia are formed

Question 8

Ascocarp

Answer 8

The fruiting structure of fungi of phylum ascomycota

Question 9

Ascus

Answer 9

Meiosporangium of the ascomycetes, saclike structure

Question 10

apothecium

Answer 10

Cup-like ascoma (fruiting body) of ‘discomycetes’

Question 11

Basidiocarp

Answer 11

Large sporophore/fruiting body, in which sexually produced spores form on the surface. Usually 4 per basidium

Question 12

Basidium

Answer 12

Exogenous meispores (4) produced on sterigmata

Question 13

Stipe

Answer 13

A stalk that lacks true vascular tissue

Question 14

Pileus

Answer 14

Spore-bearing cap of a mushroom or other large fungi

Question 15

Gills

Answer 15

Flat orientated plates of tissue that bear hymenium

Question 16

Hyphae

Answer 16

The branching structure of almost all fungi

Question 17

Plasmodium

Answer 17

No cell wall, enveloped by a gelatinous slime sheath

Question 18

Synamorphies

Answer 18

Combinations of unique traits that unite groups

Question 19

Apomorphies

Answer 19

Evolutionary changes within one lineage

Question 20

Planogametic copulation

Answer 20

Fusion of two motile gametes

Question 21

Sporangium

Answer 21

Structure producing endogenous, asexual spores

Question 22

Conidia

Answer 22

Nonmotile, asexual spore usually formed at the tip or side

Question 23

Rhizoids

Answer 23

root-like hyphae that adhere reproduction structures to substrate

Question 24

Stolon

Answer 24

Connect two groups of rhizoids

Question 25

Zygosporangium

Answer 25

Thick multilayered wall

Question 26

Holocarpic

Answer 26

Entire thallus converted into a sporangium

Question 27

Eucarpic

Answer 27

Portions of thallus converted into sporangia; development of rhizoids or vegetative thallus

Question 28

Monocentric

Answer 28

One sporangium

Question 29

Polycentric

Answer 29

Multiple sporangia