Fungi
What is Mycology?
The Study of Fungi
What is the name of the sporangium fungi/mold?
zygomycota
Are protists eukaryotic or prokaryotic and mostly unicellular or multicellular? What kind(s) of -troph are protists?
Eukaryotic and multicellular; heterotroph, autotroph, and mixotroph
What are the 3 types of protists
animal-like, plant-like, fungi-like
What organ does Plasmodium attack first?
The Liver, it attacks liver cells and breeds thousands of new parasites within it.
What are at least 2 characteristics that make fungi different from plants?
- No chlorophyll
- photosynthetic
- don't reproduce by seeds
- cell walls made of Chitin
What type of fungi are basidiomycota?
Club Fungi
What is another name for Kingdom Protista?
The Trash Can Kingdom (all eukaryotes that are not animals, plants, or fungi)
How are each type classified?
Animal-like is classified based on how they move
Plant-like is classified based on pigment color
Fungi-like is classified by body body forms
What is the mutualistic relationships between Trichonympha Agilis and Termites
The protist helps termites digest cellulose and the termite give the protists a constant supply of food and shelter
What type of Fungi was Penicillin considered?
Ascomyocyte
What are fungi in a symbiotic relationship referred to as?
Lichens
How can Protists Reproduce
Sexual reproduction (production of spores) AND binary fission (asexual)
Give 2 examples of Fungi-like protist
Water molds and slime molds
Malaria is caused by species in this group (with mosquitoes as vectors)
Protists
What are at least 2 symptoms that ergot-contaminated food can cause?
Violent muscle spasm, vomiting, delusions, hallucinations, crawling sensation on the skin
What are at least 2 examples of basidiomycota?
jelly fungi, earth stars, chantenelles, puffballs
# types of protist nutrition?
Ingestive protists - ingest + digest organisms
Absorptive protists - diffusion to absorb foods (decomposers)
Photosynthetic protists - autotrophic
What are animal-like, plant-like, and fungi-like protists also called?
Animal-like - protozoa
Plant-like - algae
Fungi-like - molds
How can fungi be harmful to other organisms (name at least 3 ways)?
Causes yeast infection, ringworm, thrush, athlete’s foot, can act as parasites on many organisms, attack plants
What is called when a tree is old and important?
A Hub Tree
Why are Deuteromycota called “imperfect fungi”?
They can’t do sexual reproduction; if stressed, they will die
What is the protist plasmodium and what does it cause?
It is a unicellular sporozoa that reproduces asexually AND sexually. It causes malaria by a bite from a pregnant infected mosquito. Symptoms include fever, headache, chillies, and fatigue.
Give 6 examples of plant-like protists
Euglenoids, diatoms, dinoflagellates, red algae, brown algae, green algae
What Fungi was believed to have caused the Salem Witch Trials? What type was it?
Clauiceps Purpea, and Ascomycota type