Molds
How are some molds dangerous?
Answers vary, teacher discretion
How is yeast helpful?
Making of bread and beer, other foods.
This is the umbrella like top of the mushroom
The cap
Seeds are the reproductive cells of fungi.
False, it is spores
Name three kinds of fungi
molds, yeasts, mushrooms
How are some molds helpful?
Molds are able to be used to kill bacteria in certain cases, like penicillan.
How does yeast reproduce?
Asexually, by budding.
The stem-like part of the mushroom
Stalk
What don't fungi have that plants have?
Chloroplasts/ the ability to make their own food
What is sporulation?
A kind of asexual reproduction in which a new organism forms from spores released from a parent
What is budding?
kind of asexual reproduction in which a new organism forms from a bud on a parent.
Mushrooms are made up of these thread like filaments
Hyphae
The MYCELLIUM are the threadlike structures that make up the body of molds and mushrooms.
False/Hyphae
Why aren't fungi green?
They don't have chloroplasts
How many spores does a spore case hold?
Thousands
Yeasts reproduce sexually or asexually?
Asexually
The part of the mushroom that holds spores
gills
Yeasts can reproduce by BUDDING
True
What do fungi do to get food?
They break down other organic matter. They are decomposers.
Is sporulation or budding more efficient for reproduction? Explain?
Sporulation, because it releases thousands of spores at once, but budding produces only one new organism at a time.
What is fermentation?
process by which a cell releases energy from food without using oxygen.
How do mushrooms reproduce?
Sexually or asexually using spores
Mushrooms and molds can reproduce sexually when their SPORES meet and each donates genetic material.
False, hyphae
What do fungi have that plants DO have?
Cell walls