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Lingo
The thin and platelike structures under the cap of a mushroom.
What are gills?
The part of the fungus that grows out of the ground to spread its spores.
What is the fruiting body?
The horror comedy movie about a parasitic fungus that came out last Friday. Featuring Liam Neeson.
What is Cold Storage? I’ll find out when I watch it in theaters with MS @ UWM Thursday, March 5th!
Eating lots of poisonous mushrooms may cause this to your body.
What is Death?
Tangled mass of hyphae.
What is mycelium?
True or False: Fungi decompose their food internally.
What is false.
What video game, and now HBO series, features a science fiction version of the cordyceps fungi?
What is the Last of Us?
The first modern antibiotic derived from mold.
What is penicillin?
The individual threads of mycelium.
What are hyphae?
The type of fungi that share nutrients with nearby tree roots.
What are mycorrhizal fungi?
This classic fictional book features a young girl eating a mushroom to alter her height. A talking blue caterpillar sits atop this toadstool.
What is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
The organism one part fungus other part photosynthetic. Its identification coined the term symbiosis.
What are lichens?
All members within the fungi kingdom contain these types of cells.
What are eukaryotic cells?
Fungi play an important role in the environment as they _____ nutrients.
What is decompose / recycle / breakdown?
The red with white spot Mario mushroom is based on this real-life species.
What is Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria)?
An emerging method of removing contaminants from the environment using fungi.
What is mycoremediation / mushroom bioremediation?
The two fungi phylum that produce relatively large fruiting bodies.
What are the basidiomycetes and ascomycetes?
What fungal cell walls are made of. Also found in the exoskeletons of crustaceans.
What is chitin?
Certain “magic mushrooms” contain this psychoactive chemical known for its hallucinogenic effects.
What is psilocybin?
Where is the largest known fungi species by land area?
What is... Upstate Oregon is home to “The Humongous Fungus” Armillaria ostoyae, a honey mushroom, which spans about 3.5 square miles in Malheur National Forest?