Fungi

Question 1

What do fungi inhibit?

Answer 1

soil or dead plant matter

Question 2

True or false, fungi are symbiotic with many plants

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What type of trophs are fungi

Answer 3

chemoorganotrophs

Question 4

How do fungi feed

Answer 4

They feed by secreting extracellular enzymes that digest organic materials like proteins

Question 5

How do fungi take up nutrition

Answer 5

They’re parasites so they take up nutrients from living cells

Question 6

Give an example of the environmental extremes that fungi can live in

Answer 6

Low pH or high temperature

Question 7

List some media types for the cultivation of fungi

Answer 7

BHI, Dextrose agar, potato dextrose agar

Question 8

Are fungi multicellular or mono cellular

Answer 8

Multicellular

Question 9

what kind of network does fungi have?

Answer 9

A network of filaments named Hyphae

Question 10

Define hyphae

Answer 10

They are tubular cell walls that surround cytoplasmic membrane, Fungi are mostly septate

Question 11

How do hyphae typically grow?

Answer 11

They grow together across a surface and form a mycellium

Question 12

What is it called when hyphal branches reach up into the air above the surfaces?

Answer 12

Conidia

Question 13

What kind of spores are conidia

Answer 13

Asexual

Question 14

How are fruiting bodies formed?

Answer 14

macroscopic reproductive structures formed from fungi

Question 15

What are the single celled spores that fungi grow called?

Answer 15

Yeasts

Question 16

What do most fungal cell walls consist of?

Answer 16

Chitin, polysaccharides, lipids and proteins

Question 17

List the three ways fungi can asexually reproduce

Answer 17

Asexual production of spores
Growth and spread of Hyphal filaments
Simple cell division

Question 18

What is Rhizopus stolonifer also known as and is it asexual or sexual?

Answer 18

Black mold and its both

Question 19

How do sexual spores originate?

Answer 19

The fusion of two haploid cells

Question 20

What are spores resistant to?

Answer 20

drying, heating, freezing,
and chemicals

Question 21

What kind of habitats to yeasts flourish in?

Answer 21

Where sugar is present like fruit, flowers and the bark of trees

Question 22

Are yeasts facultatively Anaerobic or aerobic

Answer 22

They are typically facultative
aerobes

Question 23

Name the three major mechanisms that fungi cause disease through

Answer 23

Allergic responses to fungi
Mycotoxins
Infections (Systemic)