Lab 20: Fungi and Lichens

Question 1

Fungi encompass a large group of________ ________, that must consume pre formed organic matter.

Answer 1

chemoheterotrophic eukaryotes

Question 2

Fungi can live as _______ ______ and consuming ______ _____ and _______ or they can be ______

Answer 2

saprophytes digesting, dead plants, animals, parasites

Question 3

The study of fungi is called

Answer 3

mycology

Question 4

Examples of fungi include:

Answer 4

yeast, mold, slime molds, water molds, mushrooms, puffballs, and bracket fungi

Question 5

yeast are _____

Answer 5

unicellular

Question 6

Consist of a series of elongated tubular cells;

Answer 6

hyphae (hypha)

Question 7

within hyphae, dividing them into separate cells

Answer 7

septate (septa), cross wall

Question 8

a mass of hyphae that supports the nutrition of the organism

Answer 8

mycelium

Question 9

The whole body of fungi is called;

Answer 9

thallus

Question 10

Cells in the hyphae can be, ______, _____ or _____

Answer 10

unicellular, binucleate, multinuceleate

Question 11

Non-septate multinucleate cells are said to be _____meaning many nuclei in a common cytoplasm.

Answer 11

coencytic

Question 12

All fungi excrete digestive enzymes to

Answer 12

degrade and solubilize food and molecules so they can be taken up by fungal cell

Question 13

Fungi are surrounded by a ______ ____ that is mostly made of

Answer 13

rigid cell wall .2 um thick, chitin

Question 14

Fungi contain the same as

Answer 14

eukaryote

Question 15

Diploid set of linear chromosomes coated with

Answer 15

histones

Question 16

____- has a circular bacterial-type chromosome in addition to several plasmids

Answer 16

mitochondrion

Question 17

Sexual reproduction involves the

Answer 17

union of two haploid cells

Question 18

Fungi are

Answer 18

non-motile, non-photosynthetic, chemoheterotrophic

Question 19

asexual reproduction is by

Answer 19

bud, conidiospores, arthrospores, etc

Question 20

the three major groups of fungi are

Answer 20

Zygomycota (zygomycetes)
Ascomycota ( ascomycetes)
Basidiomycota ( basidiomycetes)

Question 21

Mycelia/hyphae = no cross wall
Coenocytic multinucleate
Sexual reproduction by zygospores
non-sexual reproduction by sporangiospores

Answer 21

Zygomycota (zygomycetes)

Question 22

Dimorphic fungi

Answer 22

causes disease in animals and humans

Question 23

saprophytic

Answer 23

mold or mycelial form

Question 24

Lichens

Answer 24

mutualistic association, yeast =dominate

Question 25

Yeast, powdery mildew, etc Mycelium & hyphae have a cross wall sexual reproduction - ascospores formed with ascus nonsexual reproduction is by conidiospores in a conidium by oidia (bud, binary fission)

Answer 25

Ascomycota

Question 26

jelly fungi, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, puffball sexual reproduction is by basidiospores produced in a basidium homologous to the ascus non-sexual is by bud, conidia, chlamydospores

Answer 26

Basidiomycota

Question 27

Spore: Rhizopus, zygospores, sporangiospores

Answer 27

zygomycota

Question 28

spore: peziza , condiaspores

Answer 28

Ascomycota

Question 29

basidiospores, basidium, amanita

Answer 29

basidiomycota

Question 30

pathogenic in animals

Answer 30

yeast