Question | Answer |
How do fungi get food? | breaking down waste and dead matter |
Why is bread mold fuzzy? | because of the hyphae |
What is another name for club fungi? | mushrooms |
What is a digestive enzyme? | a chemical that helps break down food |
What is mycorrhiza? | a mutualism between a fungus and plant roots |
What do yeast use to reproduce? | budding (asexual reproduction) |
What is a lichen? | an organism that is made up of a fungus and algae or bacteria |
What is a aflatoxin? | a chemical that causes liver cancer and is produced by mold |
What kills lichens? | air pollution |
What makes fungi different from animals? | they do not move from place to place |
What is budding? | reproduction in which part of the organism pinches off to form a new organism |
How do fungi reproduce sexually? | when a plus hypha touches a minus hypha and join together to release spores |
How do fungi digest food? | outside of their bodies |
What is the most common way fungi reproduce? | asexually through the release of spores |
What do is the function of gills? | They release spore into the air |
What diseases are caused by fungi? | ringworm and athlete's foot |
What are rusts and smuts? | fungi that lives as parasites on plants, kill the plants |