Cumulative Material

Question 1

Second largest phylum of fungi

Answer 1

basidiomycota

Question 2

Basidiomycota

defining characteristics

Answer 2

• Mushrooms!
• Filamentous or yeasts
• Production of basidiospores on a basidium
• Production of complex fruiting body

Question 3

Smuts and Rusts

Answer 3

diverse and common plant proteins

basidiomycota

Question 4

Ectomycorrhizae

Answer 4

specific mycorrhizae (an association between a fungus and the roots of a plant)
* grow on actively growing fine roots
* dominate in temperate forests

part of basidiomycota

Question 5

Mushroom poisoning

Answer 5

relatively rare but icidents have been notable in people who are newly arrived in North America (due to them eating mushrooms they think are safe)

Question 6

Genus of Basidiomycota (mushroom) that are praticularly deadly - responsible for most mushroom related deaths

Answer 6

Deadly Amanitas
* “Death caps”
* “Destroying angels”

Question 7

Basidiomycota

What do Amanitins have that make them deadly

Answer 7

cyclic peptides which are hepatotoxins, nephrotoxic, etc. (parts of our body that turns over cells fastest) - leads to death
* no true antidote - best option is fluids and liver transplat
* several genera produce amatoxins, most common in Amanita species

Question 8

Basidiomycota

What do Amanitins do in the body

Answer 8

Potent inhibitors of RNA polymerase II - can’t produce new proteins

Question 9

Basidiomycota

Potential antidote for Amanitin posioning

Answer 9

Silibinin (milk thistle compound)
* may prevent uptake of amanitins into cells

Question 10

species names following what type of naming method

Answer 10

Binomial nomenclature = two name system on naming
* e.g. homo sapiens, agaricus bisporus

Question 11

Koch postulates??

Question 12

Tree of life