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Fungi
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Are fungi prokaryotic or eukaryotic | Eukaryotic |
| Are all fungi multicellular? | No - yeasts are unicellular |
| Do fungi photosynthesize? | No |
| Are fungi heterotrophs? What does that mean? | Yes. They send out digestive juices and then absorb the resulting nutrients. |
| Fungi acquire nutrients by ______________. | absorption |
| Zygospore fungi example? | Bread mold |
| Rhizopus common name | black bread mold |
| Are the nuclei in the mycelium of Rhizopus haploid or diploid? | diploid |
| Yeasts are __________ fungi. | sac |
| A ___________ is a fingerlike sac that develops during sexual reproduction in sac fungi. | asci |
| Within each ascus, meiosis followed by mitosis results in 8 haploid nuclei that become _________. | ascospores |
| Do yeasts have hyphae? | no |
| Yeasts reproduce asexually either by __________ and cell division or by __________. | mitosis or budding. |
| Cup fungi similar to sac fungi in that they produce ______ in which saclike ________ develop. | ascocarp, asci |
| Morels are cup or sac fungi? | cup |
| Peziza is a cup or sac fungi? | cup |
| When sac fungi reproduce asexually they produce __________ on upright hyphae known as _________________. | conidiospores, conidiophores |
| Club fungi are different from cup and sac because instead of producing ______ during sexual reproduction, they produce _________. | ascospores, basidiospores |
| Are basidiospore inside or outside the basidia? | Outside |
| What type of nuclear division takes place just before the basidiospore are produced? | meiosis |
| Linchens are an association between ________ and a _________________ or a __________________. | fungus, cyanobacteria, green algae |
| A mass of hyphae filaments is called a _______________. | Mycellium |
| Which structure produces spores in zygospore fungi? | sporangium |
| In which structure does meiosis occur in zygospore fungi? | zygospore |
| What structure, produced during sexual reproduction, is used to identify the sac fungi? | ascus |
| What is the name of a reproductive structure in sac fungi where spores are produced and released? | fruiting body |
| Which fungi produces an antibacterial substance discovered by Alexander Fleming? | Penicillium |
| In which 2 ways can yeast reproduce asexually? | mitosis, cell division or budding |
| What metabolic process do yeast perform that is used in alcohol production? | fermentation |
| Where are the basidia located on cup fungi? | gills |
| Under a microscope, the fungal parts of a mycorrhiza are _________ in color and the plant cells are ________________ in color. | reddish purple, blue |
| Under a microscope, the fungal parts of lichen are ___________ in color and the algae cells are ____________ in color. | blue, red |