Fungi Day 1
What are 3 components of Fungi?
Hyphae + Mycelium + Fruiting body
What is a hub tree?Old important tree
Old important tree
Are protist heterotrophs or autotrophs?
both
What chemical attracts the brain eating amoeba?
Acetylcholine
How do fungi reproduce?
Sexually & asexually
What substance is produced from Claviceps Purpurea (Salem Witch Trials)?
Honey dew
How are animal-like protists classified? plant-like?
How they move
Based on pigment color
97%
What are the four characteristics of fungi?
Eukaryotic, heterotrophs, mostly multicellular, cannot move on their own
What type of fungi is Penicillin?
Ascomyocyte
How do protists reproduce?
Sexually + asexually
What does the mosquito inject into the blood to stop it from clotting?
Saliva with malaria parasite.
What are the 5 types of fungi? Which one is imperfect?
Zygomycota, Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, Deuteromycota
Deuteromycota
What chemicals do the Claviceps Purpurea contain?
LSD and ergotamine
Name three types of plant-like protists
Euglenoids, diatoms, dinoflagellates
Where does the parasite Plasmodium go first?
Liver
What are four reasons fungi aren’t plants?
No chlorophyll, not photosynthetic, do not reproduce by seeds, cell walls are made of chitin
What is the purplish fungus that invades grain?
Black sclerotia
What are protists that don’t move on their own called?
Sporozoan protozoa
What is the most successful treatment of the Naegleria fowleri parasite?
There is none