Mycology 101
What are the microscopic reproductive units that spread the fungus?
Spores!
The "Mario mushroom" is what type of real life mushroom?
Fly Agaric aka Amanita Muscaria!
What kingdom do mushrooms belong to?
Fungi!
Flew off a shopping cart
Gage!
What is the name of the white filamentous network of fungal threads that forms the root structure of mushrooms?
Mycelium!
Which star of 'Superbad' ate 60 grams of psychedelic mushrooms then accidentally ended up in Paris?
Seth Rogen
What is the field concerned with classification of species?
Taxonomy!
NAME THE MUSHROOM NOW!
https://snaped.fns.usda.gov/resources/nutrition-education-materials/seasonal-produce-guide/mushrooms
White Button Mushroom / Portobello / Agaricus bisporus
Jack McCarthy's go to food for a function?
Watermelon
What is the name of this mushroom structure?
(https://photos.com/featured/underside-of-mushrooms-gregory-adams.html)
Gills!
Which mushroom is The Last of Us zombies based on?
Cordyceps!
How many phyla in Kingdom Fungi are considered "higher fungi"?
2! (Ascomycota and Basidiomycota)
NAME IT, NAME THE MUSHROOM
https://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/poroid%20fungi/species%20pages/Trametes%20versicolor.htm
Turkey tail!
Our first social media manager (RIP)
Tilly
Are fungi more genetically similar to plants or humans?
Humans!
(Humans share around 50% of their DNA with fungi, with many similar genes responsible for basic cellular functions)
Which Disney princess used psychedelics to help treat and recover from her trauma, anxiety, and addiction?
Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia)!
Phylogeny refers to what?
The way we organize species by closest relatives (living and extinct)!
NAME THE MUSHROM
https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/alien-specie
Devil's Fingers / Octopus Stinkhorn
Name of our OG President and VP
Julia and Jack
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
The Humongous Fungus (largest organism in the world, a honey fungi in Oregon) covers how many square miles?
3.4 square miles! (Weighs 7,500-35,000 tons and estimated to be 2,500 years old)
Name at least ONE of the headliners from the original 1969 Woodstock Music Festival
Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, and Jimi Hendrix
Agarics, puffballs, stinkhorns, brackets & polypores, jellies, boletes, chanterelles, and more are apart of which phyla within Kingdom Fungi?
(Hint: it was also part of the answer to a previous question in this section)
Basidiomycota ("Club Fungi")!
name the mushroom.....
Jack O' Lantern! (Not chanterelles)
What number Fitzgerald is Eddy
V