Beauty & the Yeast
T or F. Most Fungi are saprophytic?
True
Name 2 types of Aerial Hyphae
1. Sporophores
2. Stolon
What is the purpose of spores in K. Fungi
Sexual and Asexual reproduction
Why are Ascomycota called ascomycota?
They have "sacs" of spores called "Asci".
Mommy fungi and Daddy fungi make
Zygomycota
Name 2 general characteristics of Fungi.
1. Most are multicellular
2. Decomposers
3. Perform extra cellular digestion
4. Contain hyphae
5. Produce spores
6. Cell walls contain CHITIN
Name 2 types of Sporophores.
Aerial hyphae (Stolons & Sporophores)
Sporophore
1. Sporangiophores
2. Conidiophores
Member of P. Basidiomycota who kills humans in 16 hours.
Genus Amanita - the detroying white angel
Genus Saccromyces are the spores we use to make a food we eat.
bread
Genus of zygomycota that doesn't make bread, it makes bread moldy.
Genus Rhizapus
How are mycelium different than roots?
Mycellium are the body of the fungus and perform extracellular digestion.
Roots are used to absorb water, nutrients, and gasses to support the body of the tree.
Which sporangiophore is closed, which is open?
Conidiophores are open
Sporophores are closed
3 members of P. Basidiomycota who kill WHEAT
Wheat Rust Parasites
1. Uredo = red
2. Telio
3. Aecio - Smuts
Genus Saccromyces is also used to make something we drink.
Did not cause the potatoe famine but does give potatoes warts.
Synchochytrium endobioticum
What is Mycelium made up of?
Hypha
Hyphae used by parasitic Fungi
Haustaurium
Name some other members of P Basidiomycota
Puff Balls, Mushrooms, Shelf Fungi
Deadly member of Ascomycota. Who is it and which type of bread is it found on?
Claviceps Purpura - Salem witch trials
Rye bread
Dude! Fungi can kill deadly bacteria.
1. Who discovered it?
2. What year?
3. Name and phylum of fungi
1. Alexander Flemming
2. 1928
3. Dude Eromycota, Pennicillin
What is the difference between septate and non-septate hyphae
Septate have walls with pores for communication.
Most common hypha, not aerial.
Rhizoid
If you see a Cap & Stalk of a mushroom, what does it mean?
Fruiting bodies mean the fungi are reproducing sexually.
This fungi and member of Ascomycota killed all the American Chestnut trees.
Cryphonectria parasitica
Slime Molds are "all mixed up". Why?
Act like Kingdom Fungi when they reproduce. Act like Kingdom protoazoa when they feed.