Fungi

Question 1

t or f: yeast is unicellular

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What are the cell walls of fungi made of?

Answer 2

Chitin

Question 3

Hyphae

Answer 3

Long and thin fungi cells

Question 4

Mycelium

Answer 4

Group of hyphae

Question 5

Fungi characteristics

Answer 5

• heterotrophic via absorption
• filamentous chitin- walled cells (hyphae) form mycelium
• some produce spores

Question 6

Phylum zygomycota

Answer 6

• spores form in stalked sporangia
• ex: rhizopus, pilobilus

Question 8

Phylum ascomycota

Answer 8

• spores develop in an ascus
  ex: truffles, yeast, penicllium

Question 9

Phylum basidiomycota

Answer 9

• spores produce club shaped basidia in a basidiocarp
  ex: puffballs, edible mushrooms, toadstools and shelf fungi

Question 10

Lichens

Answer 10

• mutual symbiosis (fungi and Cyanobacteria or algae)
• first to colonize bare ground
• v sensitive to environmental pollutants

Question 11

3 thallus morphologies of lichen

Answer 11

Crustose, foliose, and fruticose

Question 12

Zygomycota sporangia

Answer 12

Round back structures on tips

Question 13

Zygomycota spores are. . .

Answer 13

Haploid

Question 14

Do fungi have sexes?

Answer 14

No, positive and negative gametophytes

Question 15

zygosporanium

Answer 15

Immature fertilized embryo in zygomycota

Question 16

Ascospores

Answer 16

Spores (haploid) of ascmycota found in the ascus

Question 17

Ascocarp

Answer 17

Closed spherical fruiting body of ascomycota that dev a pore like opening

Question 18

Basidiospores

Answer 18

Spores of basidiomycota

Question 19

Basidia

Answer 19

Club shaped cells that produce basidiospores on the fruiting body of those in basidiomycota

Question 20

Basidiocarp

Answer 20

Fleshy fruiting bodies of basidiomycota

Question 21

Stipe

Answer 21

Stalk of basidiomycota

Question 22

Pileus

Answer 22

Cap of basidiomycota

Question 23

Gills

Answer 23

On underside of cap of basidiomycota