Lab 20: Fungi and Lichens Flashcards
Fungi encompass a large group of________ ________, that must consume pre formed organic matter.
chemoheterotrophic eukaryotes
Fungi can live as _______ ______ and consuming ______ _____ and _______ or they can be ______
saprophytes digesting, dead plants, animals, parasites
The study of fungi is called
mycology
Examples of fungi include:
yeast, mold, slime molds, water molds, mushrooms, puffballs, and bracket fungi
yeast are _____
unicellular
Consist of a series of elongated tubular cells;
hyphae (hypha)
within hyphae, dividing them into separate cells
septate (septa), cross wall
a mass of hyphae that supports the nutrition of the organism
mycelium
The whole body of fungi is called;
thallus
Cells in the hyphae can be, ______, _____ or _____
unicellular, binucleate, multinuceleate
Non-septate multinucleate cells are said to be _____meaning many nuclei in a common cytoplasm.
coencytic
All fungi excrete digestive enzymes to
degrade and solubilize food and molecules so they can be taken up by fungal cell
Fungi are surrounded by a ______ ____ that is mostly made of
rigid cell wall .2 um thick, chitin
Fungi contain the same as
eukaryote
Diploid set of linear chromosomes coated with
histones
