What makes a fungus?
The part of a fungus that is responsible for extracellular digestion and absorption
What is mycelium
Form Spores on clublike basidia.
What is Basidiomycota?
What is the genus from which we derive penicillin and produce cheese?
What is Penicillium?
Greek roots of Basidiomycota
What is club fungus?
All fungus reproduce by:
What are spores?
A filament of fungal cells that is embedded in the material on which the fungi grow?
What is rhyzoid hypha or haustorium
Have no known sexual mode of reproduction.
What is Deuteromycota?
This fungus is responsible for fermentation. (include its phylum)
What is yeast of Phylum Ascomycota?
Greek roots of Ascomycota
What is "wineskin fungus"?
What is an aerial hypha that reproduces asexually to make more filaments?
What is a stolon?
Digestion that takes place outside of a cell
What is extracellular digestion?
A fungus that looks like a protozoa until it reproduces
What is phylum Myxomycota?
One pathogenic fungi of Phylum Ascomycota
What are Rusts - crop damage OR Ergot of Rye - causes severe pain and often death.
aka pin molds
What is Phylum Zygomycota?
Specialized aerial hypha that produces spores
What is a sporophore?
The two main types of hypha
What are rhizoid and aerial hypha?
Characteristic spore of Phylum Chytridiomycota
What is has a flagella?
An example of mutualism in Kingdom Fungi
What is a mycorrhiza or 'fungus root' OR lichen (algae/food source + fungus/structure & protection)
The term for grows on and decomposes dead organisms
What is saprophytic?
The name for a sporophore which encloses its spores
What is a sporangiophore?
A definition of a fungus
What is a eukaryotic heterotroph that reproduces with spores and has chitinous cell walls?
Form sexual spores where hyphae fuse, have undergone meiosis and form a zygote
What is Zygomycota?
Fermentation
What is the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into smaller molecules
Describe the lifecycle of a Basidiomycota
Two compatible mycelia meet (which came from basidiospores) and they fuse. As the mycelia intertwine they will sexually reproduce. Eventually the new hyphae will form a web and enclose themselves in a membrane, the button stage. At that point it begins to quickly fill with water and eventually the cap and stipe break through the membrane. The fruiting body of the mushroom will then release spores.
A specialized aerial hypha whose spores are not enclosed
What is a conidiophore?