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Digestion that takes place outside the cell.
What is extracellular digestion.
100
A hypha that is imbedded in the material on which the fungus grows.
What is Rhizoid hypha.
100
An aerial hypha that asexually reproduces to make more filaments.
What is a Stolon.
100
The anaerobic breakdown of sugars into smaller molecules.
What is Fermentation.
100
A filament of fungal cells.
What is Hypha.
200
If a fungus forms haustoria, why would it be considered parasitic?
What is because the haustorium is designed to invade the cells of the host and draw nutrients from them.
200
If a fungus has haustorium, why would it not be considered saprophytic?
What is the fungus will not be feeding on DEAD matter.
200
This is the type of hypha that exists in all multicellular fungi.
What is Rhyzoid hyphae. You know this because all multicellular fungi must have something that holds it to the material on which it grows.
200
What provides toughness and flexibility for a fungus?
What is Chitin.
200
Name two specialized aerial hyphae?
What is Sporophore and Stolon. However, sporophores are also broken down into sporangoiphore and conidiophore.
300
What Phyla forms spores on clublike basidia?
What is Basidiomycota.
300
What Phyla has no known sexual mode of reproduction?
What is Phylum Deuteromycota.
300
What Phylum forms zygospores right where the hyphae fuse.
What is Zygomycota.
300
What Phylum would an organism be classified as if it contained both parts that resemble a fungus and a protozoan?
What is Myxomycota.
300
What portion of the mushroom holds the basidia?
What is the gills (held by the cap).
400
Bread molds reproduce when two mycelia forma a zygospore in what type of reproduction?
What is sexual reproduction
400
Bread molds utilize what type of reproduction when a stolon elongates and eventually starts another mycelium.
What is asexual reproduction.
400
Bread molds can reproduce by this mode when aerial hypha forms a sporophore.
What is asexual reproduction.
400
Rusts and smuts are a pathogenic fungi that BOTH cause this malady.
What is crop damage.
400
Ergot of rye (Claviceps purpurea) has this effect on humans.
What is death.
500
Ophiostoma ulmi causes which disease (malady) among trees?
What is Dutch elm disease.
500
Cryphonectria parasitica wiped out all the American chestnut trees. What is the malady that was experienced?
What is chestnut blight.
500
What is the name of the fungus that causes potato wart?
What is Synchytrium endobioticum?
500
What is likely being formed if a crop grows much better when a particular fungus is growing in its presence?
What is mycorrhiza.
500
What useful medicine is produced by fungi in genus Penicillium and what is the general name for this type of medicine.
What is Penicillin. The general name is antibiotic.
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