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| In terms of cell count, what can fungi be? |
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| Are fungi eukaryotic or prokaryotic? |
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| How may be fungi be classified according to how they get carbon? |
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| How do fungi get their nutrients? |
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| They absorb nutrients following external, enzymatic digestion |
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| How may fungi be classified according to the relationships they have with other organisms? |
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| Decomposers, parasites and mutualists |
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| Single-celled form of fungi |
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| Long filaments consisting of many cells or single cell with hundreds of nuclei. |
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| A nitrogen-containing polysaccharide. |
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| The cell walls of fungi contain |
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| What does chitin do for cell walls that contain it? |
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| Increases strength and flexibility. |
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| Hyphae growing through substrate to absorb nutrients. |
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| What are the specialized hyphae used for? |
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| Trapping prey and Haustoria |
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| Exchanging nutrients with plant cells. |
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| What is an example of an organisms to which specialized hyphae for trapping prey is used? |
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| Mutualistic fungi with plant roots |
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| What are the two subtypes of mycorrhizae? |
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| Ectomychorrhizal and arbuscular |
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| Hyphae remain outside of plant cells |
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| Penetrate plant cell wall |
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| Is the life cycle of fungi mostly haploid or diploid? |
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| True or false: all of the life cycle of fungi is haploid. |
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| False: most of it is haploid. |
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| Do compatible or identicial hyphae fuse in for fungal reproduction |
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| What are the two distinct phases in the life cycle of fungi? |
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| What happens to the nuclei in Plasmogamy? |
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| The nuclei may not fuse immediately. |
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| In regards to the number of nuclei, how may plasmogamy be classified? |
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| Different nuclei within hyphae |
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| How id heterokaryotic different from diploid? |
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| The chromosomes remain separated. |
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| When does Karyogamy occur? |
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| Hours, days or centuries after plasmogamy |
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| What happens as a result of karyogamy? |
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| What happens after the diploid stage in the fungal life cycle? |
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| Production of haploid spores following meiosis. |
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| How can fungi produce spores? |
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| Both sexually and asexually. |
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| Filamentous fungi producing haploid spores. |
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| How does mold produce spores? |
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| True or false: Fungi are either always filamentous or yeast-form. |
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| False: Fungi can alternate between filamentous and yeast-form. |
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| What can cause fungi to alternate between yeast form and filamentous form? |
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| Phylum Chytridiomycota has what distinguishing feature? |
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| Motile spores with flagella |
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| Phylum Zygomycota has what distinguishing feature? |
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| Resistant zygosporangium as sexual stage |
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| Phylum Glomeromycota has what distinguishing feature? |
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| Phylum Ascomycota has what distinguishing feature? |
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| Sexual spores borne internally in sacs called asci |
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| Which phylum of fungi includes saccharomyces? |
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| Baking yeast and fungal symbiont in lichens |
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| Phylum Basidiomycota has what distinguishing feature? |
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| Elaborate fruiting body called basidiocarp |
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| Break organic waste down into available mineral nutrients for the rest of ecosystem. |
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| What examples of things that decomposers digest illustrates their power? |
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| Cellulose and lignin in wood. |
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| A ________________ is to the fungus what an _______________ is to a tree. You only see _____________________ |
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| A mushroom is to the fungus what an apple is to a tree. You only see the fruiting bodies. |
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| What are the mutualists of fungi? |
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- Mychorrhizaw
- Leaf-cutter ants
- Help digest GUTS in some herbivores
- Lichens
- Endophytes
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| How do fungi help plants in mycorrhizal relationships? |
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| They increase nutrient uptake by plants. |
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| Fungi living among plant cells |
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| What does fungi do for plants in endophyte relationships? |
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| Produce toxins in leaves to deter herbivores. |
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| What does fungi get in endophyte relationships? |
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| Leaf-cutter ants do what for fungi? |
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| They deliver leaves to farmed fungi to digest |
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| What do leaf cutter ants get in return? |
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| Fungi produce proteins and carbohydrates to feed ants. |
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| What are the two components of lichens? |
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| Fungi and photosynthetic algae or cyanobacteria. |
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| What are the ways that fungi can act as pathogens? |
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- Modify ant behavior, leading to death
- Alfatoxins from fungi on peanuts and grains.
- Athletes foot and ringworm on skin.
- Diseases of many trees and food crops. |
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| What are the human benefits of fungi? |
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- Food
- Antibiotics and other medications
- Genetic research |
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| What are the functions of fungi? |
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- Decomposers
- Mutualists
- Pathogens
- Human Benefits |
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| Motile sperm with flagella is the distinguishing feature of which phylum? |
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| Resistant zygosporangium as the sexual stage is the distinguishing feature for which phylum? |
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| Arbuscular mycorrhizae is the distinguishing feature for which phylum? |
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| Sexual spores borne internally in sacs called asci is the distinguishing feature for what phylum? |
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| Elaborate fruiting bodies called basidiocarp is the distinguishing feature for what phylum? |
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| Ascomycota also includes what genus of note? |
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| Baking yeast and fungus symbiotic in lichens are examples of organisms contained in what? |
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| What must fuse for fungal reproduction? |
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