Into to Fungi
Fungi are classified as this type of organism because they do not make their own food
What is a heterotroph?
This type of fungi is made of only one cell.
What is yeast?
Fungi reproduce asexually by fragmentation, budding, or producing these.
What are spores?
This kingdom includes yeasts, molds, and button mushrooms.
What is the kingdom Fungi?
This antibiotic, used to treat bacterial infections, is produced from the imperfect fungus Penicillium
What is penicillin?
This kingdom of organisms is home to 144,000 known species.
What is the kingdom Fungi?
Some fungi attack other living organisms or infect their hosts in this way.
What is parasitic?
This environment is ideal for fungi reproduction because spore formation requires moisture.
What are damp and humid environments?
The cell walls of fungi are made of this substance.
What is chitin?
These aquatic fungi, part of Phylum Chytridomycota, have spores that possess flagella and can be parasitic or live on decaying matter.
What are chytrids?
Fungi typically grow best in these types of environments.
What are moist and warm environments?
Fungi cannot perform photosynthesis because they don’t have this.
What is chlorophyll?
Fungi can reproduce sexually when two haploid hyphae combine and exchange this material.
What is genetic material?
Unlike plants, fungi absorb nutrients from other organisms instead of doing this.
What is making their own food?
In Phylum Zygomycota, this structure forms when two fungi combine during sexual reproduction and stays dormant until conditions are right.
What is a zygospore?
Many fungi can live freely in soil or water, but some form these types of relationships with plants or animals.
What are parasitic or symbiotic relationships?
Some fungi have these thin, thread-like structures.
What are hyphae?
Sexual reproduction in fungi gives rise to these structures, which hold the material of the next generation.
What are fruiting bodies?
Fungi are part of this larger group of organisms that have complex cells with a nucleus.
What are eukaryotic organisms?
This group of fungi, the largest, includes mildews, morels, and truffles, and forms small sacs called asci during reproduction.
What is Phylum Ascomycota (Sac Fungi)?
Fungi are eukaryotic organisms, meaning their cells contain these structures.
What are membrane-bound organelles and clearly defined nuclei?
Fungi cells have a nucleus and other small parts, like this one.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
In sexual reproduction, fungi spores are created when these structures from two species come together.
What are gametes?
The cell walls of fungi are made of chitin, while the cell walls of plants are made of this substance.
What is cellulose?
This group includes mushrooms and puffballs, which release spores from club-shaped structures called basidia.
What is Phylum Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)?