Taxonomy & Basics
These organisms include yeasts, molds, and mushrooms.
What are fungi?
These spores are produced on a basidium.
What are basidiospores?
These long, thin filaments make up fungal bodies when joining.
What are hyphae?
These fungi break down dead wood in forests.
what are decomposers?
Many edible fungi are high in these protective compounds that stop cell damage.
What are antioxidants?
This phylum includes mushrooms, smuts, and rusts.
What is Basidiomycota?
This process fuses the cytoplasm of two fungal cells.
What is plasmogamy?
A mass of hyphae is called this.
What is mycelium?
Brown-rot fungi mainly break down these two wood components.
What are cellulose and hemicellulose?
Fungi like Pycnoporus are useful because they can produce these enzymes that break down plant material.
What are oxidases and hydrolases?
Fungi get nutrients from other organic material, making them this type of organism.
What are heterotrophs?
These asexual spores form when hyphae break apart.
What are oidia (or conidiospores)?
This type of septum has a thickened pore that allows movement of cell contents.
What is a dolipore septum?
White-rot fungi break down this tough, dark material in wood.
What is lignin?
This compound found in edible polypores helps protect the body from oxidative stress.
What are phenolic compounds?
This group contains bracket fungi, puffballs, and gilled mushrooms.
What are the Agaricomycetes?
This term describes a single-nucleus hypha.
What is a monokaryon?
This is the cap-like top part of the fruiting body.
What is the pileus?
This relationship helps trees get phosphorus and fungi get nitrogen.
What is ectomycorrhizae?
Fungi can be used as food, medicine, or as this decorative item.
What are ornamentals?
This fungal order is known for shelf-like fruiting bodies on wood.
What are the Polyporales?
Fungi can release spores into the air using this common method.
What is wind dispersal?
This surface of the fruiting body contains the pores.
What is the hymenium?
This type of rot can cause structural damage in homes by weakening wood.
what is brown-rot?
Pycnoporus is special because it can form fruiting bodies and these single-nucleus cell lines in lab cultures.
What are monokaryotic cell lines?