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Fungi are ________ that feed by______ |
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| Where do heterotrophs get their nutrients? |
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| They absorb nutrients from outside of their body |
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How do fungi break down complex molecules? |
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| What do fungi use enzymes for? |
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| To break complex molecules |
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| Ecological success in fungi are known from them being _____(4 answers) |
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- Decomposers
- Parasites
- Mutualists
- Early colonizers of land, probabaly as symbionts with plants
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| What are two morphologies of multicellular fungi? |
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- An enhanced ability to absorb nutients
- Chitin
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| Fungi reproductive structure |
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| What does the Hyphae consist of? |
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| The continuous network of the mushroom and its subterannean mucelium |
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| What kind of cells do the Hypal Structure contain? |
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- Most=multicellular
- Some=no cross wall
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| How are hypal structures divided? |
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By septa (division by cross wall)
or without a cross wall (Coenocytic) |
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| What does Coenocytic imply when dealing with Hyphal strutures? |
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| How do fungi produce spores? |
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| Through sexual or asexual cycles |
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| What does propagate mean? |
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| How an organism reproduces/multipy |
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| How do fungi propagate themselves? |
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| by producing vast numbers of spores, either sexually or asexually |
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| What is the general life cycle of fungi? |
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| the final step in the process of fusing two nuclei |
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| Fungi radiated into a _____ set of lineages |
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| What is a distinguishing feature of Chytridiomycota(chytrids)? |
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| What is a distinguished feature of Zygomycota(zygote fungi)? |
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| Resistant zygosporangioum as sexual stage |
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| What is the zygosporangia? |
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| the site of karyogamy and then meiosis |
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| What distiguishing feature that Glomeromycota(arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi) have? |
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| Arbuscular mycorrhizae fromed with plants |
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| What feature distinguishes Ascomycota(ascomycetes, or sac fungi)? |
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| Sexual spores (ascospores) born internally in sacs called asci; vast numbers of asexual spores produced |
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| Sacs where secual spres are borne internally are called ________ |
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| What is a distinguishing feature of Basidiomycota(basidiomycetes, or club fungi)? |
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| Elaborate fruiting body containing many basidia that produce sexual spores |
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| What is the fruiting boudy that Basidiomycota called? |
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| What is the name of the reproductive feature of the Basidiomycota? |
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| Where are Chytrids found? |
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| In freshwater and terrestrial habitats |
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| What ecological sucesses are Chytrids known for? |
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| Being decomposers, mutualists, saprobic or parasitice |
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| When did Chytrids diverge? |
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| early in fungal evolution |
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| Chytrids have ____, which are unique with ____ spres |
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| What are Zygomycetes known as? |
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| Fast growing bread and fruit molds |
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| Zygomycetes aim their ___ towards conitions associated with ____ ______ _______ |
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| sproangia, good food sources |
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| Pilobolus "aim" their sporangia toward ____ |
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| What is an arbuscular mycorrhizae? |
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| mutually beneficial relationships between fungi and plant roots |
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| Mycorrhizae "fungus roots" delivers _____ and recieves ____ ______ |
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| minerals, organic nutrients |
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| Where do Ectomycorrhizal fungi grow? |
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in extracellular spaces of roots
note:ecto= external |
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| Endomycorrhizal fungi are known for.. |
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having their hyphae go through cell walls to the plasmamembrane
note:endo=within |
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| What is the difference between ectomycorrhizal vs endomycorrhizal fungi? |
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Ecto=outside of cells
Endo=inside of cells |
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| Where do Ascomycetes live? |
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| in marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats |
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| Ascomycetes produce seclike ____ containing in fruiting bodies called ______ |
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| Ascomycetes are commonly called ____ |
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| Basidiomycetes include ____ (5 things) |
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- "mushrooms"
- puffballs
- shelf fungi
- mycorrhizae
- plant parasites
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| Alternate name for basidiomycetes |
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| Many Basidiomycetes are ________ |
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| What do fungi plant play key roles in? |
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- nutrient cycling
- ecological interactions
- human welfare
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| The esential recycling betweeen the living and nonliving world |
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( Fungus- Plant Symbiosis)
Mycorrhizae increase ______ ______ |
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(Fungus-Animal Symbiosis)
The relationship helps break down _____ _____ |
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| Lichens is a ____ association of _______ microorganisms held in _____ ________ |
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| symbiotic, photosynthetic, fungal hypae |
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| The fungal component of Lichens |
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| Algae or cyanobacteria occupy... |
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| an inner layer below the lichen surface |
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| Pathogens are about ___% of known fungal species |
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| Pathogens are _____. mostly on or in plants |
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- make cheeses, alcoholic beverages, and bread
- Genetic research on fungi is leading to applications in biotechnology
- Antibiotics produced by fungi treat bacterial infections
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