BIO 2 Ch 26 mindtap exam

Which fungal group is coenocytic and reproduce asexually via blastospores?

Glomeromycetes

Yeasts reproduce asexually by:

budding

An examples of a plant disease caused by an ascomycete is:

chestnut blight

Members of phylum ____ are the most primitive of the fungi and were previously classified as protists.

chytridiomycota

Fungi that lack septa are called:

coenocytic

Production of ____ is a means of rapidly propagating new mycelia when environmental conditions are favorable for ascomycetes.

conidia

Hyphae that contain two genetically distinct, sexually compatible nuclei within each cell are described as:

dikaryotic

Reduction in ____ growth is used as a sensitive indicator of air pollution.

lichen

Color pigments produced by ____ are used to dye woolens and litmus.

lichens

When bread gets moldy with visible black or blue spots, you are looking at masses of the colored:

spores

What is an example of a plant disease caused by a basiodiomycete?

wheat rust

Which statement about mycorrhizae is FALSE?

Arbuscular mycorrhizae are extracellular.

Which process marks the start of the dikaryotic stage (n + n) in the fungal reproductive cycle?

plasmogamy

How do mycorrhizae benefit plants?

Mycorrhizae increase a plant's absorptive surface area of roots.

Which statement about microsporidia is FALSE?

They have mitochondria and Golgi complexes

Consuming even a single mushroom of the genus ____ can be fatal.

amanita

The club fungi typically reproduce by producing:

basidia

Mushrooms that we eat are technically referred to as:

basidiocarps

Which one of the following is mismatched?

dutch elm disease-glomeromycetes

One ancestral characteristic remaining in representatives of the Chytridiomycota is:

flagellated cells

Lichens are most typically formed by the symbiotic association of an alga or cyanobacterium and a(n):

glomeromycete

Fungi parasitic on plants produce specialized hyphae, called ____, that penetrate the host.

haustoria

A ____ is a filament that makes up the vegetative body of most fungi.

hypha

f the following, which would be predicted to grow at the slowest rate?

lichens

The structure labeled as 9 in the accompanying figure was produced by:

meiosis in the resting sporangium

Hyphae of a basidiomycete's primary mycelium consist of ____ cells.

monokaryotic

Most fungal spores are ____ reproductive cells that are produced ____.

nonmotile; sexually or asexually

Phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota are considered ____ because they share a more recent common ancestor with each other than either does with any other group.

sister taxa

What makes up most of the mass of an individual mushroom?

underground mycelium

Which unicellular fungus is probably in most kitchens?

yeast