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Biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where can fungi be found? | everywhere |
| Food, water, air, toes, damp basement walls, and between gardens is where ___can be found | Fungi |
| Fungi characteristics are large, bright and ____, easily overlooked | Colorful |
| Fungi has distinctive names like stink___, puff___, and ring ____ | horn ball worm |
| Fungi was once classified as ____ | plants |
| Fungi differ form plants because they lack ______ and are not ______ | chlorophyll photosynthetic |
| Fungi never reproduces from ____ | seeds |
| Fungi cell wall is made of ______ and not cellulose like plants | chittin |
| Common characteristic of fungi include ______ organisms | eukaryotic |
| Most fungi are ____, few are ______ | multicellular unicellular |
| Fungi cannot _____by themselves | move |
| Common characteristic of fungi that depends on other organisms for their nutrition | heterotrophs |
| What obtains nutrients by digesting and absorbing nutrients | saphrophytes |
| What obtains their nutrients from living hosts | parasites |
| What is able to trap and kill their prey | predators |
| Name 3 structures of fungi, in alphabetical order | fruiting body hyphae mycellium |
| The body of a fungus is composed of ___ cells | unusual |
| Hyphae are the living growing ___ of multicellular fungi | parts |
| Multicellar fungi consists of a _____hyphae | mass |
| Name an example of fruiting body | mushroom |
| What are long slender filaments that make up the body of a fungus | hyphae |
| What are densely branched network of the hyphae of a fungus | mycellium |
| What is the reproductive structure of fungus that grows from the mycellium | fruiting body |
| Fungi grows ___ because of the structure of their mycellium | rapidly |
| Fungi grows because the hyphae grows _______ | longer |
| Fungi is important to the ______and humans | environment |
| Fungi have a role in _____ nutrients | recycling |
| Fungi _____humans examples yeast and antibiotics | benefit |
| Fungi are important to the maintenance of the environment to _____ ecosystem | stabilize |
| Most saprophyte decomposers break down ______organic material | decaying |
| Without fungal decomposers, the ecosystem would _____ | collapse |
| Parasitic fungi cause disease in plants and animals by disupting ________ | homeostasis |
| Fungal diseases are caused in plants, _____, frogs, and mammals | insects |
| Name 2 Examples of human fungal disease in alphabetical order: | athletes foot ringworm |
| Some fungi form ______ associations with photosynthetic organisms which both partners ______ | mutualistic benefit |
| ______is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism | Lichen |
| Lichen absorb nutrients from _____ and from the photosynthetic organisms allowing them to _____ almost on any surface. | air grow |
| The photosynthetic organism receives _____ and protection from the ______ | water sunlight |
| Fungi are vital for growth in many ______ | plants |
| _____ is the mutualistic association between a fungus and the roots of a plant | Mycorrhizae |
| Fungus benefits because it can ____nutrients made by a synthetic organism | absorb |
| 1 advantage the mycorrhizae provide to plants | root extension |
| another advantage mycorrihizae provides plants: break down organic material in the soil providing steady ______ to the plant | nutrients |
| Fungi is ____ helping humans in many ways | beneficial |
| 2 ways fungi can be destructive | damage property and rotting wood |
| Fungi provides diversity resulting in more than ____ known species of fungi | 100,000 |
| The phyla of fungi differ in their _______ structures | reproductive |
| There are four major ____ of fungi | phyla |
| Deuteromycota is an ______ fungi | imperfect |
| The one characteristic common to all deuteromycotes is the ______ of sexual reproduction. | absence8 |
| The mold like _______ and aspergullus are both imperfect fungi | penicillin |
| Imperfect fungi causes athletes foot, ringworm, and fingernail _______ | infections |
| One of the most unusual members of the deuteromycota division is ________ a fungal predator that can trap small ________ | arthobotyrs worms |
| Phyla with common mold and zygospores | zygomycota |
| Phyla with sac fungi, morals, truffle, penicillin | ascomycota |
| Phyla with club fungi called basidia | Basidiomycota |
| Phyla with parasite of frogs and decomposers | Chytridiomycota |