Textbook Definitions
An example of unicellular fungi
yeasts
Are scientists 100% sure why fungi bioluminesce?
No
How many people die from death cap mushrooms every year?
100
True or False: Mushrooms can be engineered to mine and extract metals
True
True or False: Mushrooms have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years
True
the process by which plants make their nutrients using the substances they absorb (water, carbon dioxide and minerals) and energy from the sunlight
photosynthesis
What mushrooms are named after a type of food that you slurp?
Golden Oyster or Pink Oyster
Death cap mushrooms are found on every continent except ____
Antarctica
Which hair-like root structures on mushrooms can easily bind nearby materials as they grow?
True or False: An average size tree can provide enough wood to make over 150,000 pencils
True
the part of a plant that supports it above ground
stem
bricks
True or False: Amatoxins in death cap mushrooms can be destroyed by cooking, freezing, or drying
False
Fungi's ____ sport thick cell walls that allow them to survive extreme temperatures
spores
Does Julia like to eat mushrooms?
Yes!
a type of asexual reproduction where two daughter cells form...yeasts reproduce in this way
budding
How many species of fungi are there on the planet?
Over a million and a half
Why do some mushrooms (ex: Galerina and Lepiota) cause less deaths than death cap mushrooms?
1) They are very distinguishable
AND/OR
2) They aren't as widespread
What is the pigment that safely absorbs high levels of radiation that some species of fungi produce
Melanin
Why was the mushroom the life of the party?
Because he was a fun-guy
parasitic fungi causing diseases in people, such as athlete's foot and ringworm
harmful fungi
a _____ can help kill and fight bacteria... sweat out from a mushroom after inoculated with bacteria
metabolite
Why did Agrippina discreetly kill her husband with death cap mushrooms?
so that her son, Nero, could secure his succession as 5th emperor of Rome
Mir
an example of a gymnosperm plant
savin, sago palm, or fir tree