Fungi Basics
This kingdom includes mushrooms, molds, and yeasts.
What is the Fungi Kingdom?
This is the visible part of a fungus that we often call a mushroom.
What is the fruiting body?
Plants make their own food using this process.
What is photosynthesis?
This process uses fungi to clean up pollution.
What is mycoremediation?
Fungi are often grown indoors because they do not need this.
What is sunlight?
Fungi cannot make their own food, so they are called this type of organism.
What are heterotrophs?
These structures under the cap produce spores.
What are gills?
Fungi cell walls are made of this material (also found in insect exoskeletons).
What is chitin?
Fungi can break down pollutants like this black liquid from spills.
What is oil?
The material fungi grow on (like straw or sawdust) is called this.
What is substrate?
Fungi absorb nutrients from their surroundings using these thread-like structures.
What are hyphae?
These microscopic reproductive cells spread through the air.
What are spores?
Plants have cell walls made of this substance.
What is cellulose?
Mycelium can replace this common packaging material.
What is Styrofoam (plastic)?
Adding mushroom “seeds” (spawn) to the substrate is called this step.
What is inoculation?
The main underground body of a fungus is called this.
What is mycelium?
This part of the mushroom protects the spores.
What is the cap (pileus)?
Fungi typically grow in these types of environments.
What are dark, damp places?
This famous antibiotic comes from fungi.
What is penicillin?
This stage allows mushrooms to grow after conditions change (humidity, air).
What is fruiting?
Fungi play this important role in ecosystems by breaking down dead material.
What are decomposers?
The underground “network” that connects plants is often called this nickname.
What is the Wood Wide Web?
Plants are producers, while fungi are classified as this.
What are decomposers?
Fungi help fight climate change by reducing waste and improving this global system.
What is food security (or the environment/climate)?
Fungi farming is more sustainable because it uses less land and this resource.
What is water?