Fungi names
Fungal characteristics (8)
generally microscopic,
eukaryotic,
Heterotrophic
Absorptive nutrition
filamentous,
spore-bearing
Indeterminate growth
cell walls contain chitin except for oomycetes (cellulose)
Oomycete asexual spore
Zoospore born in a sporangium
Zygospore are the sexual spores and structures of
Mucoromycete/Zygomycetes
•spores formed at the end of a conidiophore
sexually produced spores born in an ascus
Ascopsore
Myxomycota and Plamodiophoromycota
Slime molds and endoparasitic slime molds
Oomycete sexual spore
Oospore
Sporangium and sporangiospores are asexual structures of
Mucoromycete/Zygomycetes
•specialized hyphae on which one or more conidia are produced
conidiophore
•Open cup or saucer-shaped ascocarp ascomycetes bearing asci
Apothecium
Sac fungi
Ascomycota
Two structures that come together to form the Oospore
Antheridium and oogonium
Pycnidium, acervulus, conidia, and chlamydospores are structures of
Deuteromycetes or asexual Ascomycetes
•thick walled pear-shaped structures in which conidia are produced
pycnidia
an entirely closed ascocarp bearing - asci
Cleistothecium
Water Molds
Oomycota
These fungi mycelium are cenocytic
Oomycetes
Zygomycetes
Cleistothecium, perithecium, and apothecium are structures of
Ascomycetes
•subepidermal saucer-shaped asexual fruiting body
producing conidia on short conidiophore
Acervulus
•A globular or flask-shaped ascocarp having an opening at one end bearing asci within
Perithecium
Bread molds
Mucoromycota/Zygomycota
These fungi mycelium are septate
Ascomycetes
Basidiomycetes
Spermagonium, aecium, uredium, and telium are structures of
Basidiomycetes
•cells within the hyphae or spores which enlarge to form thick walls for survival
•chlamydospore
Perithecium contain what types of spores
While Pycnidia contain what types of spores
Ascospores
Conidia