General Characteristics of Fungi
More General Characteristics of Fungi
Reproduction in Kingdom Fungi/ Classification in Kingdom Fungi
More Classification in Kingdom Fungi/ Phylum Basidiomycota
Other Members of Phylum Basidiomycota
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Digestion that takes place outside of the cell
What is Extracellular Digestion
100
Specialized aerial hypha that produce spores
What is Sporophore
100
Sexual reproduction that usually occurs in fungi involves forming specialized structures
What is Fruiting Bodies
100
Fungi with no known method of sexual reproduction
What is Phylum Deuteromycota
100
Member of Phylum Basidiomycota that form their spores on basidia inside a membrane
What is Puffballs
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The part of the fungus responsible for extracellular digestion and absorption of the digested food
What is Mycelium
200
An aerial hypha that asexually reproduces to make more filaments
What is Stolon
200
Form sexual spores on clublike basidia
What is Phylum Basidiomycota
200
Fungi that look like protozoa for much of their lives
What is Phylum Myxomycota
200
Member of Phylum Basidiomycota found on dead wood
What is Shelf Fungi
300
A filament of fungal cells
What is Hypha
300
A hypha of parasitic fungus that enters the host's cells, absorbing nutrition directly from the cytoplasm
What is Haustorium
300
Form sexual spores in saclike asci
What is Phylum Ascomycota
300
Spores formed in phylum Basidiomycota
What is Basidiospores
300
Parasitic form of fungi in Basidiomycota that requires a main and alternate host
What is Rusts
400
A hypha that is imbedded in the material on which the fungus grows
What is Rhizoid Hypha
400
A chemical that provides both toughness and flexibility
What is Chitin
400
Form sexual spores where hyphae fuse
What is Phylum Zygomycota
400
A thin covering of tissue
What is Membrane
400
Another parasitic member of Basidiomycota
What is Smuts
500
A hypha that is not imbedded in the material upon which the fungus grows
What is Aerial Hypha
500
Form spores with flagella
What is Phylum Chytridiomycota
500
A almost perfect circle of mushrooms
What is Fairy Rings
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