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Fungi quiz
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What are examples of foods that are fungi? | Bread, cheese, soy sauce, mushrooms |
| Fungi get there food in three ways. What are they? | Decomposers, parasites or they live in symbiotic relationships |
| A bunch of hyphae twisted together | Mycelium |
| Chains of cells that grow underground | Hyphae |
| The fungi develop spores and/or a piece of the hyphae breaks apart from the fungus and becomes a new individual. (Sexual/asexual) | Asexual |
| What characteristics determine how a fungus is classified? | Shape and the way it reproduces. |
| Shapeless fuzzy fungi | Mold |
| The round cases at the tips of hyphae | sporangia |
| Truffles are an example of what type of fungi? | Sac fungi |
| During sexual reproduction, the fungi forms a sac called what? | An ascus |
| Sexual reproduction in a sac fungi involves | spores |
| Asexual reproduction in sac fungi involves | budding |
| What diseases are caused by parasitic sac fungi? | Chestnut blight, Dutch Elm disease |
| Gill fungi belong to what group? | Club fungi |
| Name other club fungi | Bracket fungi, puffballs, smuts and rusts. |
| Helpful imperfect fungi used by humans | Penicillium and Trichoderma |
| Lichens can only live when the air quality is good so if they are living what does this mean? | The air quality must be good. |