Types of Mushrooms
Small round white mushrooms.
What are white button mushrooms?
Fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus.
What is a Mushroom?
What is mold?
Microscopic, single celled organisms in the fungus kingdom.
What are yeast?
A kingdom of life, more closely related to animals than plants.
What are fungi?
A more mature life stage of the White Button Mushroom.
What are Baby Bella Mushrooms?
A reproductive unit capable of giving rise to a new organism.
What is a spore?
Molds are NOT this.
What is a taxonomic group?
This process creates alcohol.
What is fermentation?
What are heterotrophs?
The most mature life stage of this mushroom.
What are portobello mushrooms?
Unlike most mushrooms, this type grows underground.
What is a truffle?
If you see visible mold on your food, there are invisible ________ running through the rest of it.
What are hyphae?
What are opportunistic infections?
Most fungi are ______, too small to see with the naked eye.
What is microscopic?
This mushroom is common in Asian cuisines.
What are shiitake mushrooms?
The scientific term for the cap of a mushroom.
What is a pileus?
Compound produced by certain molds that can cause bad health effects.
What is a mycotoxin?
A food product that requires yeast to rise.
What is bread?
This role in the ecosystem breaks down dead organic material into its component parts.
What are decomposers?
Not actually, a single species, this name is used to refer to a variety of mushrooms that are often orange or yellow.
What are Chanterelle Mushrooms?
Poisonous mushrooms may be called this.
What is a toadstool?
The first antibiotic, derived from a mold.
What is penicillin?
This species of yeast is used by Beer and bread makers.
What is Saccharomyces cerevisiae?
The fungal cell wall is made of this compound.
What is chitin?