Fungi Chapter

Question 1

What is a contractile vacuole?

Answer 1

Contains water and keeps the shape

Question 2

What are the cell walls of fungi made of?

Answer 2

Chition

Question 3

When we see mushrooms what are we seeing?

Answer 3

Fruiting body

Question 4

What is the most common form of reproduction in protozoa?

Answer 4

Binary Fission

Question 5

Protists refer 2 what 2 organisms?

Answer 5

Protozoa and Chromista

Question 6

What is pseudopod?

Answer 6

Extension being pushed by cytoplasm

Question 7

Interwoven hyphae name?

Answer 7

Mycelium

Question 8

Most protozoans are heterotrophic or autotrophic?

Answer 8

Heterotrophic

Question 9

What is a perfect fungus?

Answer 9

Protists seen doing sexual and asexual reproduction

Question 10

What is an imperfect fungus?

Answer 10

Fungi observed only asexually

Question 11

Are fungi autotrophic or heterotrophic?

Answer 11

Heterotrophic

Question 12

What is a phytoplankton?

Answer 12

Micro-organisms in water in sunlight that are chromista

Question 13

How does an amoeba capture food?

Answer 13

Pseudopod

Question 14

What are cysts in this chapter?

Answer 14

Protective cover of protists against adverse environments

Question 15

Why was the old kingdom abandoned?

Answer 15

Because they put everything in a category and it became too diverse

Question 16

What is the role of fungus in the environment?

Answer 16

decomposers

Question 17

What is specific about phylum Ascomycota?

Answer 17

Ascomycota are cup-shaped not cap-shaped

Question 18

What is the purpose of the fruiting body of fungi?

Answer 18

To reproduce

Question 19

What are three forms of movement for a protozoa?

Answer 19

cilila, flagellum, pseudopod

Question 20

What are 2 specialized structures used to respond to the environment?

Answer 20

eyespot, cilia, flagellum, contractile vacuole

Question 21

What is an example of a pathogenic protozoa?

Answer 21

plasmodium-malaria

Question 22

What conditions are needed for algae to bloom?

Answer 22

warm water, sunlight, mineral water

Question 23

Budding is the only form of sexual reproduction. T/F

Answer 23

False also is binary fission

Question 24

What protozoan causes malaria?

Answer 24

Plasmodium

Question 25

What structures are not found in protozoans?

Answer 25

Cell wall and chloroplasts

Question 26

Fungi often live in symbiotic relationships with other organisms T/F

Answer 26

True

Question 27

What makes protists, protists?

Answer 27

Unicellular, eukaryotic, can be autotrophic of hetertrophic

Question 28

What is budding?

Answer 28

when a small version of itself pops out and turns into a new one

Question 29

What is an algae bloom?

Answer 29

overgrowth of algae because of there being a perfect condition for it

Question 30

What is the outdated name of protists?

Answer 30

Protista

Question 31

What is fragmentation?

Answer 31

when an organism breaks apart and rebuilds