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Chapter 22
Fungi
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| chitin | tough material found in the eskoskeleton of insects |
| hyphae | slender filiments that are components of the body of a multicellular fungi |
| mycelium | the tangled mass of growing hyphae |
| septa | walls that divide the hyphae |
| dikaryotic | a fungal hyphae with 2 nuclei that came from 2 genetically dif. individuals |
| dikaryon | a mycelium w/ paired nuclei |
| zygosporangia | sexual structers with thick walls that characterize the phylum zygomycota |
| ascus | saclike structure where haploid spores are formed in ascomycetes |
| ascoarp | compact mass of hyphae constituting the reproductive structure in ascomycota |
| yeast | unicellular ascomycetes |
| basidium | club shaped reproductive cells on a mushroom |
| Fungi Imperfecti | fungi classified on the basis of their asexual reproductive structures |
| lichen | symbiotic association between a fungus and a photosynthetic parter |
| endomycorrhizae | mycorrhizae in which the fungal hyphae penetrate the outer cells of the roots |
| ectomycorrhizae | mycorrhizae that don't physically penetrate plant roots, but wrap around them |