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Fungi
Section 4
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
10/29/2012

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Term
Protistan Fungi
Definition
Oomycetes (water molds) and slime molds (plasmodial slime molds and cellular slime molds)
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True Fungi
Definition
zygomycetes, glomeromycetes, ascomycetes, basidomycetes
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Basidiomycetes
Definition
Shrooms, decomposers (break down wood of old trees)
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Ascomycetes
Definition
Sac-like fungi
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Zygomycetes
Definition
Fast-growing molds
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Hyphae
Definition
Feeding structure of a fungus, thread-like filaments that branch repeatedly as they grow
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Mycelium
Definition
The name of a mass of hyphae branches
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Chitin
Definition
What fungi cell walls are made of (plant cell walls are made of cellulose)
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Fungi Reproduction
Definition
Release vast numbers of haploid spores
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Mycorrhiza
Definition
Symbiotic relationship between fungi and the root of a plant
Term
Lichen
Definition
organisms consisting of a symbiotic relationship between a fungus (the mycobiont) and a photosynthetic partner (algae or cyanobacteria). Fungus receives food from photosynthetic partner and the partner receives a suitable environment (fungus absorbs water keeping it moist)
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Ascomycetes
Definition
A type of fungi that is paired with the algae/cyanobacteria in lichen
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