Morphology
The correct term for the stem of a mushroom
What is Stipe?
A puffball mushroom is edible when cooked when its inside is like this.
What is Pure White?
Fungi that eat dead organic material and grow on wood are also known as decomposers.
What is Saprotroph?
Mushrooms fall into this Kingdom of life.
What is Fungi?
This is the word for the type of fungi that helps humans ferment drinks and bake bread.
What is Yeast?
Fungi can reproduce by producing these tiny structures, which can travel through air or water and grow into new fungi.
The chemicals that some mushrooms make that are poisonous to humens when ingested are known by this mycoogical name.
What are Mycotoxins?
Fungi form this type of relationship with the roots, giving the plant nutrients in exchange for sugars.
What is Mycorrhizae?
The fancier name for gilled mushrooms that starts with an A is this.
What is an Agaric
Lichens are not just a fungus, but are rather a symbiosis between a fungus and this
What is Algae?
The underground root-like body of a fungus is commonly known as this.
What is Mycelium?
This three letter abbreviation means small, hard-to ID, dull colored mushroom. Hint: I told you never to eat these as there are many that are toxic.
What is LBM (little brown mushrooms)?
When fungi get nutrients from a living organisms and harms its host, they are as this.
Parasite
Ascomycota is a phyllum of fungi that contain this type of fungi (provide one example).
What is a cup fungi?
What is a morel?
Although they look like fungi, these organisms are actually amoeba-like protists that can move around and feed on decaying material.
What is Slime Molds?
A mycologist uses this term to refer to the reproductive structure of a fungus that we commonly call "mushroom".
What is a fruiting body?
This is the name of the edible, fleshy, white toothed mushroom that grows on trees.
Most boletes are known to have this ecological function.
What is mycorrhizal?
The large fungal phyllum that contains all of the gilled mushrooms, boletes, polypores, and many other types of fungi is known as this word that ends in -mycota.
What is Basidio-?
Mushrooms are made out of this material, which is also found in th exockelatons of insects and crustaceans.
What is Chitin?
The genus of mushrooms called Cortinarius is know for these two features.
What is a web-like partial veil and a rusty orange spore color?
What is the common name and genus of the infamous mushroom that has killed the most people?
What is Death Cap, Amanita?
By breaking down dead organisms, fungi return nutrients such as carbon and nitrogen to the environment, making them essential to this ecosystem process.
What is Nutrient Cycling?
Modern taxonomic classification uses these 8 levels.
What is Domain, Kingdom, Phyllum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Fungi use this type of digestion, releasing enzymes onto food to break it down outside of their bodies.
What is external digestion?