Define
What is a fruiting body?
The reproductive system of fungus.
What are the two ways fungi reproduce?
Sexually and asexually.
Less than 100,000 species of fungi are known.
False. (More)
---is the mass of branching hyphae below the soil.
Mycelium
Which river is known as the longest in the world?
The Nile.
What are fungi?
Fungi are heterotrophic eukaryotes with cell walls that contain chitin.
What are the two gamete mating types called?
Plus and minus
All fungi share the characteristics that define them as fungi.
True
Some fungi, known as ---, live most their lives as single cells.
Yeasts
Which animal is known as the "ship of the desert"?
Camels.
What is chitin?
Chitin is a polymer made of modified sugars that is also found in the external skeletons of insects.
What are three things biologists used to place fungi into their distinct groups?
Fungi are homotrophic.
False. (heterotrophic)
Paired haploid gametes nuclei fuse to form diploid zygote nuclei go through---to make haploid spores.
Meiosis.
Which countries flag doesn't have red, white, or blue in it?
Jamaica.
What is mycelium?
The mass of branching hyphae below the soil.
Name two ways fungi feed?
Absorbing nutrients from decaying matter in the soil, absorbing nutrients from te bodies of their hosts.
Gametes of both mating types are the same size.
True.
Fungi produce powerful---that digest food outside their bodies.
Enzymes.
Whose your favorite classmate?
Rinadah.
What is hyphae
A long slender branching filament formed from cells.
Name three ways fungi reproduce asexually?
Releasing spores, budding off, and breaking off hypha.
Mycelium is the reproductive structure of fungus.
False. (fruiting body)
Fungi differ from one another in their---.
Reproductive structures.
Who are your favorite teachers?
Ms. Haya and Ms. Jedoun