Cordyceps
How does cordyceps initially infect an insect?
Spores
Without fungi, this key step in nutrient recycling would not take place nearly enough in nature.
Decomposition
Common skin infection caused by a fungus that leaves a circular rash on the skin.
Ringworm
What type of ant has one of the most painful stings in the world?
Bullet ant
A parasitic disease commonly found in mosquitoes
what Is Malaria
The type of ant that is infected by Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis
What are carpenter Ants
This is the reproductive structure of a fungus that spreads spores.
Fruiting body
Candida albicans is more commonly known to cause this fungal disease in humans?
Yeast infection
What is the average lifespan of a black ant?
1-2 years.
The worm that lays eggs in uncooked pork
What is A Tapeworm
Why cant cordyceps infect humans?
Our body temperature is too high for them to survive.
True or False: Fungi have chloroplasts
False
True or False: Aspergillus spores are extremely deadly to everyone who breathes them in.
False.
True or False: There are more species of butterflies than there are species of moths.
False
A worm that lays eggs in aquatic microbes to be swallowed by humans * was in a previous question
What is the Guinea Worm
what is the scientific name of (full name) of the body snatcher
What is Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis
A haploid reproductive cell that is capable of developing into a new organism.
Spores
A worm that lays eggs in Daphnia and Cyclops and crawls through human body parts if swallowed
Guinea Worm
VERY GROSS🤮
The small green insect that is commonly framed in ant colonies
what are Aphids
This worm enters your body through a mosquito bite and creates immense swelling in the leg
Filarial worm
What is the scientific name of the endoparisitic cordyceps?
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis.
Name two places you would find chitin.
Fungi cell walls and exoskeletons of insects.
What is the common nickname for the yellow fungus Laetiporus, which is found growing on or at the base of dead or dying hardwood trees and is often harvested and eaten?
Chicken of the woods
Ophiocordyceps sinensis takes over the larvae of what type of insect?
Moth
An amoeba that eats through your brain
The brain eating Amoeba