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| What are the 3 detrimental aspects of fungi? |
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Definition
1. Chestnut blight fungus
2. Dutch elmr disease
3. Damage to food crops |
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| What is the Chestnut blight fungus? |
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Definition
| it is where fungi destroy the host which has eliminated the American chestnut from the forest |
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| What is Dutch elm disease? |
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Definition
| it causes the breakdown of water conduction tissues of the Dutch elm tree causing the tree to die |
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Term
| What are the 3 beneficial aspects of fungi? |
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Definition
1. Food
2. Medicine
-produced penecillin
3. Decomposition
-decomposes dead organisms |
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Term
| What are 3 examples of food produced by fungi? |
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Definition
1. Yeast
2. Cheese
3. Mushrooms |
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Term
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Definition
| The fungus secretes digestive enzymes taht digest the food into a soluble form of food outside the organism. The soluble food is then absorbed into/by the food. |
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Term
| Explain colonial growth of fungi. |
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Definition
| colonies of fungus are made up of hyphae which have spread out underground in order to gain nutrients. When conditions are right, mushrooms appear from the spores that the hyphae contain. |
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Term
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Definition
| Lichens are groups of fungus and algae cells living together |
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Term
| How does a lichen represent symbiosis? |
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Definition
| In Lichens, the algae captures energy and produces sugars for itself and the fungus which provides support and protection for the algae |
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Term
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Definition
| the slender filaments that compose the mycelium of a fungus |
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Term
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Definition
| all of the hyphae in a fungus |
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Term
| Why do mycelium spread under ground? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| a cell with a hard protective covering that is capable of producing a new organism |
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Term
| What is the cap of the mushroom? |
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Definition
| the structure that contains the gills |
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Term
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Definition
| the thin spore-producing membrance of cefrtain fungi |
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Term
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Definition
| the presence of right conditions |
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Term
| What do mushrooms need to grow? |
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Definition
| dead material and moisture |
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Term
| What does safrofitic mean? |
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Definition
| that something feeds on dead material |
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