Key Terms
What is digestion that takes place outside of a cell?
Form Spores on clublike basidia.
What is Basidiomycota?
Genus Penicillium. The Med and general name for such medicines.
What is Penecillin and what are antibiotics?
A hypha of a parasitic fungus that enters the host's cells absorbing nutrition directly from the cytoplasm.
What is haustorium?
Bread molds: sexual and asexual
What is 1) Hyphae grow together; hyphae sexually reproduce; a zygospore forms ; and germinates into a new bread mold. 2) sporangiophores from aerial hyphae drop asexual spores into the air which goes into the soil and grows or with the stolon lengthening forms new filaments which become a new mycelium and thus a new fungus.
Rhizoid Hypha
What is a filament of fungal cells that is embedded in the material on which the fungi grow?
Have no known sexual mode of reproduction.
What is Deuteromycota?
Function of chitin.
What is providing both toughness and flexibility?
Stolon
What is an aerial hypha that reproduces asexually to make more filaments?
Slime molds can appear in two kingdoms
What is because they behave like fungi when they reproduce and colonial protists when they feed?
Two pathogenic fungi
What are Rusts - overtake crops and Ergot of Rye - causes severe pain and often death.
Part of the mushroom that holds the basidia.
What are the gills?
Fermentation
What is the anaerobic breakdown of sugars into smaller molecules?
Resemble both protozoa and fungi.
What is Myxomycota?
A certain crop grows better in the presence of certain fungi, describe the reason
What is a mycorrhiza or 'fungus root' that lives in the soil in a symbiotic relationship with plants, providing them minerals and absorbing nutrients from the plants root system.
Type of hypha that exists in all multicellular fungi.
What is rhizoid hypha?
Hypha
What is a filament of fungal cells?
Form sexual spores where hyphae fuse.
What is Zygomycota?
Two specialized aerial hyphae
What are sporophore and stolon