Viruses
What is the protein coat surrounding a virus?
What is a capsid?
Whats are the threadlike structures that make up most fungi?
What is hyphae?
What are the two main types of fungal reproduction ?
What are sexual and asexual reproduction?
What are the major groups of fungi covered for this exam?
What are Chytrids, Basidiomycetes, Ascomycetes, Glomeromycetes, Zygomycetes ?
What is ergotism and what fungus causes it?
What is disease caused by consuming ergot, produced by Calviceps Purpurea and can infect grains such as rye.
What is DNA and RNA
What are the three major fungal lifestyles, based on how fungi obtain nutrients?
What are decomposers, mutualists, and parasites?
What is the difference between plasmogamy and karyogamy?
Which fungal group produces motile, flagellated spores?
What are two symptoms of ergotism?
What is gangrene, nervous spasms, burning sensations, hallucinations, and temporary insanity?
What is the difference between the lytic and lysogenic cycles?
What is the lytic cycle produces new viruses and lyses the cell, while the lysogenic cycle replicates the phage genome without destroying the host cell?
What is decomposers obtain nutrients from dead organic matters, parasites obtain nutrients from living hosts and harm them, and mutualists exchange nutrients or other benefits with hosts?
What is the heterokaryotic stage in fungal reproduction?
What is the stage in which the cytoplasms of two fungal cells fuse but their nuclei are not fused.
Which fungal group forms arbuscular mycorrhizae with plant roots, and why is this relationship important?
What is glomeromycetes? They help plants absorb nutrients in exchanges for sugars and other organic compounds.
What are restriction enzymes and what do they do to DNA?
What is the difference between horizontal and vertical tranmission?
What is horizontal transmission is caused by entering of disease through damaged cell walls and vertical transmission is passed from parent to offspring?
What is mycorrhiza and how does the fungus benefit?
What is a mutualistic relationship between plants and fungi where fungi obtain sugar and other organic compound from the plants?
Which group of organisms are fungi most closely related to and what does this tell us about their evolutionary history?
What is animals. Fungi and animals share a common ancestor and belong to opisothokont clade?
Which fungal groups includes plant pathogens, decomposers, and symbionts? Which fungal group includes mushrooms and puffballs?
What is ascomycetes? What is basidiomycetes?
What is a DNA palindrome and why is it important for many restriction enzymes?
For the influenza virus H1N1, what does the H and the N stand for and what do they identify?
What is the H stands for hemaggluttinin and the N stands for nueraminidase, viral surface proteins used to classify infleunza A?
How do fungi differ from most multicellular organisms in how they obtain nutrients?
Why can sexual reproduction benefit fungi and what advantage can asexual reproduction provide?
What is sexual reproduction provides genetic variation while asexual reproduction allows rapid reproduction without compatible partner.
What is a lichen? What important ecological role does it play?
What is a symbiotic association between fungus and photosynthetic microorganism? What are important pioneers in rock weathering?
How can you determine whether a hypothetical restriction enzyme recognize a DNA sequence?
What is by comparing DNA strand to restriction enzyme recognition sequence in the 5' to 3' direction. If recognition sequence is absent from DNA strand, the enzyme will not cleave DNA?