Mystery
A magnification instrument useful in the field.
What is a hand lens?
A couplet contains ____ character states of the same character.
What is two character states?
The synapomorphy that unites the Basidiomycetes.
What are basidia?
The three types of ascocarp.
What are apothecial, cleistothecial, and perithecial?
The primary role of Zygomycetes.
Smuts belong to this phylum.
What is basidiomycota?
The Shannon-Weiner Index measures species ___ and ___
What is species richness and evenness?
Mycorrhizal fungi typically have this hyphal adaptation.
What are arbuscules?
Each ascus most commonly contains ___ ascospores.
What is 8 ascospores?
When zygomycetes mate, this structure is formed.
What is a zygosporangium?
A lichen consists of these partners.
What are a fungus and an algae or cyanobacteria?
A _____ character is more useful for a dichotomous key than a ____ character.
What is a perennial character and an ephemeral character?
Both white rot and brown rot can digest this compound.
What is cellulose?
What are conidia?
A rust's asexual spores used to amplify infection.
What are urediniospores?
The annulus is a remnant of this structure.
What is a partial veil?
A group that includes a common ancestor and all of its descendants
What is a monophyletic group?
Ballistospores are found on the ____ of basidiomycetes.
What is the hymenial surface?
Yeasts are categorized by ____, not by membership in a specific phylum.
What is method of sexual reproduction?
The stages of a demicyclic rust in order.
What are spermatia, aecia, telia, and basidia?
Wheat and corn are both ____.
Hint: What type of plant?
What are grasses?
The purpose of a data matrix.
What is the organization and classification of character states relevant to the population?
The character is gill attachment. A character state for this character is ____
What is distant, free, decurrent, adnate, sinuate...?
(many right answers)
One lab specimen displayed an ascomycete parasitizing another ascomycete. The two fungi involved are ____ and ____.
What is a cordyceps and a deer truffle?
A mycologist would say that this plant is the primary host of white pine blister rust.
What is a Ribes (currant or gooseberry) plant?