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Fungi, Protists, Bryophytes, Ferns
Study Materials for exam 2
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
10/20/2009

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Kingdom Fungi
Definition
Cell Walls primarily of Chitin
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Mycelium
Definition
Mass of Fungal Hyphae
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Haustorium
Definition
Special hyphae which penetrate living cells
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Kingdom Fungi
Definition
Members of this kingdom are parasites, saprophytes, and symbionts
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Kingdom Fungi
Definition
Main ecological role of this kingdom is decomposition
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Kingdom Fungi
Definition
All species in this kingdom are haploid and undergo zygotic meiosis
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Absorbtion
Definition
Means by which fungi get nutrition
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Three Main Divisions of Kingdom Fungi
Definition
Zygomycota, Ascomycota, Basidomycota
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Rhizophus
Definition
(bread mold) Member of division zygomycota, kingdom fungi
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Pilobulus
Definition
(cap thrower dung fungus) member of division zygomycota, kingdom fungi
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Phycomyces
Definition
(dung fungus) member of division zygomycota, kingdom fungi
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Schizosaccharomyces
Definition
Member of class hemiascomyces, division ascomycota, reproduces through fission, is a yeast
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Kingdom Fungi
Definition
Coenocytic hyphae and formation of zygosporangia are what this kingdom is known for
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Asci and Ascospores
Definition
Components of division ascomycota, kingdom fungi sexual reproduction
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Septate hyphae
Definition
Characteristics of ascomycota and basidiomycota (type of hyphae)
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Hemiascomycetes and Euascomycetes
Definition
Two major classes of division ascomycota, kingdom fungi
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Hemiascomycetes
Definition
Ascomycota Class which has no ascocarps
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Euascomycetes
Definition
Division ascomycota class with ascocarps
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Saccharomyces
Definition
Fungus of division ascomycota, class hemiascomyces, reproduction by budding
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Cleistotheicia, Perithecia, and Apothecia
Definition
All are names of the perfect stages of class euascomycetes, division ascomycota, kingdom fungi organisms
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Cleistothecium
Definition
Ascocarp which is round and has no openings
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Peziza
Definition
Common cup fungus which produces apothecium, part of class euascomycetes, division ascomycota, kingdom fungi
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Perithecium
Definition
Ascocarp which is flask shaped
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Apothecium
Definition
Ascocarp that is cup shaped
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Morchella Esculenta
Definition
Euascomycete, Ascomycota, Fungus, highly modified apothecium, common morel
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Sordaria
Definition
Euascomycetes, Ascomycota, Fungus, has perthecium, used in our lab
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Claviceps Purpurea
Definition
Euascomycete, Ascomycota, Fungus, commonly known as erogt of rye, harmful if eaten, produces perithecium, swollen and blackened grains
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Ergotamine
Definition
Used to treat minor headaches
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Mychorriza, example truffles or tuber
Definition
Euascomycete, Ascomycota, Fungus, symbiont of tree roots, hunted with pigs as guide
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Lichens
Definition
Euascomycete, Ascomycota, Fungus, no perfect stage, composite thallus with photosynthetic partner
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Lichens
Definition
Most sensitive to SO2, Indicators of air pollution, 18,000 species, used in dyes, perfumes, medicine
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Crustose Lichens
Definition
Look like paint, little internal structure, tightly adherant to rocks and barks
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Foliose Lichens
Definition
Leafy, distinct upper and lower surfaces
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Fruticose Lichens
Definition
Shrubby or drooping structures, upper and lower surfaces
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Fungi Imperfecti
Definition
Aspergillus, Penicillum, Fusarium, deuteromycetes
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Basidomycota
Definition
Division of Fungi, produce basidium and basidiospores, main classes are the teliomycetes, ustomycetes, and basidiomycetes
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Teliomycetes
Definition
One class of division basidiomycota, kingdom fungi, include the rusts (puccina graminis and gymnosporangium), no basidiocarps
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Ustomycetes
Definition
Major class of division basidiomycota, include smuts (common corn smut ustilago maydis), septate basidia, only one host
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Basidiomycetes
Definition
Major class of division basidiomycota, basidia are non septate, swollen, club shaped and produced on layer called the hymenium, common fleshy fungi, saprophytes and not parasites
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Hymenomycetes
Definition
Major series of class basidiomycetes, division basidiomycota, kingdom fungi, Basidia ON basidiocarp; coprinus, agaricus, amanita are examples
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Gasteromycetes
Definition
Major series of class basidiomycetes, division basidiomycota, kingdom fungus, basidia in the basidiocarp; examples are stinkhorns, puffballs, bird's nest fungi
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Heterotrophic
Definition
Feeding mechanism for animal-like and fungal-like protists
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Autotrophic
Definition
Feeding mechanism for algal like protists
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Protist Classifications
Definition
Cell Wall Chemistry, Food Reserves, Cilia/Flagella, Pigments all determine what?
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Division Oomycota, Kingdom Protista
Definition
This division of protists has cellulose cell walls, are known as water molds, coenocytic hyphae, motile (use whiplash and tinsel flagella, gametic meiosis, many are serious plant parasites
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Saprolegnia
Definition
"ich" on aquarum fish, asexual and sexual reporduction phases, division oomycota
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Plasmopara viticola
Definition
devasted french wine industry in early days, Bordeaux mixture was the cure, water mold, division oomycota
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Phytophtora infestans
Definition
division oomycota, caused irish potatoe famine of 1840's
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Division Myxomycota
Definition
Division of fungal protists known as slime molds, plasmodial,acellular, plasmodium is the vegetative state as a protoplasmic blob
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Division Myxomycota
Definition
Plasmodium produces one or more sporangia where meisis takes place, spores germinate from myxamoebae or swarm cells, National Geographic slime mold
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Division Dictostelimycota
Definition

Division of fungal protists known as cellular slime molds, vegetates as psedoplasmodium or slug (grex), asexual reproduction through sorocarps, sexual reproduction through macrocysts

 

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