Fungi Basics
The five phyla of fungi
What are chytridiomycota, zygomycota, ascomycota, basidiomycota, and glomeromycota?
The feeding method of fungi
What is heterotrophy / surface absorption?
The main phylum that makes up these two categories
What is ascomycetes?
The number of spores in one ascus
What is eight (8)?
(as opposed to 4 in basidia)
The definition of sterigma (plural: sterigmata)
What is a prong on the basidium that holds the basidiospores?
Fungi are the sister group to this kingdom
What is kingdom Animalia?
The type of symbiosis that fungi partake in
What is mutualistic?
The defining feature of deuteromycetes
What is only undergoing asexual reproduction and not sexual reproduction?
The homology of an ascocarp
What is gametangia?
The name for the underside of the pileus/cap of a mushroom
What is hymenophore?
True or false: a single fungal individual is the mycelium
What is true?
The main chemical found in fungi cell walls
What is chitin?
The utility of yeasts
What is fermentation?
The explanation for why the ascus contains exactly 8 ascospores
What is the zygote undergoes one round of meiosis then one round of mitosis, so the diploid cell becomes 4 haploid cells that then become 8 haploid cells?
The remnants of the universal and partial veils become what, respectively
What are the universal veil becomes the volva , the partial veil becomes the annulus?
The two informal taxonomic groups of fungi
What are yeasts and deuteromycetes?
The difference between sapotrophic and biotrophic
What is: sapotrophic refers to decomposers that feed on the deceased; biotrophic refers to parasites that feed on the living?
The number of cells in a yeast individual
What is one (1)?
The name of the fruiting body of ascomycota
What is ascocarp / ascomata?
The reason mushrooms "grow overnight"
what is all cell divisions needed for all the cells of the mushroom happen early on, and all the cells are very tightly packed. once rain comes, the cells blow up into a full sized mushroom?
The type of life cycle that fungi primarily have (diplontic, haplontic, or diplohaplontic)
What is haplontic?
The term for the type of mitosis fungi undergo, where the nuclear envelope does not dissolve
What is closed mitosis/closed karyokinesis?
The utility of deuteromycetes
What are food spoilage and medicine/penicillin/antibiotics?
The names and descriptions of the three types of ascocarps
What is apothecium is open and cup shaped, perithecium is flask shaped with a small pore opening, and cleistothecium are completely closed and globular?
The difference between hymenomycete and gasteromycete basidiocarps
What is in a hymenomycete, the basidia are in a hymenium layer on the hymenophore portion of the basidiocarp; in a a gasteromycete, the basidia are completely enclosed inside the basidiocarp as they develop?