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| Fungus of Rye grain, causes paralysis, insanity, and death in vertebrates. The original source for the hallucinogenic drug LSD. |
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| What are the effects of drugs derived from Ergot of Rye? |
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Muscles contract
Blood vessels constrict |
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| Name 2 destructive fungi. |
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Chestnut blight fungus
Dutch Elm Disease |
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| How does Dutch elm disease affect elm trees? |
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| Destroys the water conduction tissues in trees |
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| How is Dutch elm disease spread? |
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| Name two uses for beneficial fungi. |
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cheese
yeast
Penicillin (antibiotics)
Mushrooms are fungi |
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| What is the most important function of fungi in nature? |
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| What characteristic separate true fungi from the plant and algae kingdoms? |
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1. No chlorophyllso they are Heterotroph-rely on other organisms for food.
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| Feeds on living things and destroys them. |
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| Human disease caused by Fungi. In the soil it is a saprophytic mold, in the human it lives in the lungs and reproduces by budding. |
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| Describe external digestion in fungi. |
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| Fungi secrete enzymes onto food. The digested particles are absorbed by the Fungi. The secreted enzymes are often the poison of harmful fungi. |
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| All fungi require abundant _____________ for active growth |
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| Many fungi species can with stand periods of dryness by forming _______ |
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| Most fungi have cell walls composed of ______________, a hard but flexible substance. |
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| Some fungi are also composed of slender filaments called __________. |
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| _____________ are hyphae which are embedded in the material on which the fungus is growing. They serve to support the fungus and digest food. |
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| Some fungi are parasitic in man, such as ___________, ___________ ________, and __________________. These are caused by Imperfect fungi. |
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ringworm
Athlete's foot
thrush |
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| All fungi can reproduce asexually by ____________ or by fragmentation of the hyphae. |
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| aerial hyphae which produce new filaments. Allow fungi to reproduce asexually. |
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| Define: True fungi, or perfect fungi |
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| Known form of sexual reproduction. |
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| Define: Imperfect fungi, or fungi imperfecti |
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| Not known to reproduce sexually. Classified in phylum Ascomycota |
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| Characteristics of Phylum Zygomycota |
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Reproduces sexually by fusion of the hyphae to form a zygote.
Rhizopus nigricans is a common black mold. |
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| Characteristics of Phylum Ascomycota |
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Called: sac fungus because of the spore sacs.
Observable on fruits as mildew
Black mold on bread
Ergot of rye
Chestnut blight
Dutch elm disease
Morels (edible)
Cup fungi |
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| Characteristics of Phylum Basidiomycota |
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Club fungi (because of the shape of the base pedestal)
mushrooms
puffballs
wheat rust
smuts (plant parasites) |
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fungus and alga living together in symbiosis
alga: captures sunlight amd manufactures sugars for itself and the fungus
Fungus: supports and protects the alga |
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