Biology 1

Definitions Module 4

100

Mycelium

Part of fungus responsible for extracellular digestion/absorption of digested food

200

Sporophore

Specialized aerial hypha that produces spores 

300

Antibiotic

A chemical secreted by a living organism that kills/reduces reproduction rate of other organisms

400

Fermentation

The anaerobic breakdown of sugars into smaller molecules

500

Haustorium

A hypha of a parasitic fungus that enters the host's cells, absorbing nutrition directly from cytoplasm

Fungi Phyla

100

Basidiomycota main characteristic

Sexual spores on club-like basidia

200

Zygomycota main characteristics

Form sexual spores where hyphae fuse

300

Myxomycota main characteristics

Fungi that look like protozoa for much of their lives

400

Deuteromycota main characteristics

Fungi with no known method of sexual reproduction

500

Ascomycota main characteristics

Form sexual spores in sac-like asci

Kingdom Fungi

100

What type of fungus is best known for fermentation? To which phylum does it belong?

Yeast; Ascomycota

200

Name a pathogenic fungi and its malady

rusts-crop

smuts-crop

ergot of rye-death

Cryphonectria parasitica - chestnut blight

Ophiostoma ulmi - Dutch Elm Disease

Synchytrium endobioticum - potato wart

300

Name the genus of the fungus that produces penicillin

Penicillium

400

What is an alternate host? List a type of fungus that uses one.

Parasitic fungus; rusts

500

What is the difference between a sporangiophore and a conidiophore?

Sporangiophore produces spores in an enclosure, conidiophores do not

Definitions Module 5

100

Organic molecule

Molecule that contains only carbon and any of the following: H, O, N, S, P

200

Osmosis

The tendency of a solvent to travel across a semipermeable membrane into areas of higher solute concentration

300

Isomer

Two different molecules that have the same chemical formula

400

Molecule

Chemicals that result from atoms linking together

500

Saturated Fat

A lipid made from fatty acids that have no double bonds between carbon atoms

Chemistry

100

What is the difference between an atom and an element?

An element contains all atoms of that have the same number of protons.  An atom is singular, determined by the number of protons, neutrons and electrons

200

What does the number after an atom's name signify?

Sum of protons and neutrons (isotope)

300

What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis?

6CO₂ + 6H₂O --> C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂

400

What are enzymes?

Special class of proteins used as catalysts

500

What kind of reaction is used for building disaccharides, polysaccharides, fats and proteins?

Dehydration