BY 124 Exam II - Chapter 31
Diploid nuclei of the ascomycete, Neurospora crassa, contain 14 chromosomes. A single diploid cell in an ascus will undergo one round of meiosis, followed in each of the daughter cells by one round of mitosis, producing a total of eight ascospores. If a single, diploid G₂ nucleus in an ascus contains 400 nanograms (ng) of DNA, then a single ascospore nucleus of this species should contain how much DNA (ng), carried on how many chromosomes?
100, carried on 7 chromosomes
Arrange the following from largest to smallest: 1. ascospore 2. ascocarp 3. ascomycete 4. ascus
3, 2, 4, 1
Arrange the following from largest to smallest, assuming that they all come from the same fungus. 1. basidiocarp 2. basidium 3. basidiospore 4. mycelium 5. gill
4, 1, 5, 2, 3
The photosynthetic symbiont of a lichen is often
A green alga
Some fungi can exist either as unicellular yeasts or as filamentous hyphae. Which of these forms would be most favorable in an environment where nutrients are limited?
A longer filamentous hypha
Surface area represents the area available for exchange with the environment, whereas volume represents the cytoplasm which requires nutrients and from which waste products (usually toxic) must be removed. Which of the following should provide the most favorable conditions for effective exchange?
A longer filamentous hypha
If infection primarily involves the outermost layers of adult amphibian skin, and if the chytrids use the skin as their sole source of nutrition, then which term best applies to the chytrids?
Aerobic chemoheterotroph
As a direct result of increasing surface area in both yeasts and filamentous hyphae, which cell structures/materials must also increase? 1. amount of chitin 2. number of nuclei 3. amount of plasma membrane 4. number of mitochondria 5. amount of peptidoglycan
Amount of chitin and amount of plasma membrane
The adaptive advantage associated with the filamentous nature of fungal mycelia is primarily related to
An extensive surface area well suited for invasive growth and absorptive nutrition
Among the organisms listed here, which are thought to be the closest relatives of fungi?
Animals
Chemicals, secreted by soil fungi, that inhibit the growth of bacteria are known as
Antibiotics
Which description does not apply equally well to both sexual and asexual spores?
Are produced by meiosis
Which statement is a correct interpretation of the data in the previous tables?
As a cylinder gets bigger, its surface area increases at a greater pace than does its volume
You are given an organism to identify. It has a fruiting body that contains many structures with eight haploid spores lined up in a row. What kind of a fungus is this?
Ascomycete
Among sac fungi, which of these correctly distinguishes ascospores from conidia?
Ascospores have undergone genetic recombination during their production, whereas conidia have not
What are the sporangia of the bread mold Rhizopus?
Asexual structures that produce haploid spores
The multicellular condition of animals and fungi seems to have arisen
By convergent evolution
Apart from direct amphibian-to-amphibian contact, what is the most likely means by which the zoospores spread from one free-living amphibian to another?
By flagella
Orchid seeds are tiny, with virtually no endosperm and with miniscule cotyledons. If such seeds are deposited in a dark, moist environment, then which of the following represents the most likely means by which fungi might assist in seed germination, given what the seeds lack?
By providing the embryos with some of the organic nutrients they have absorbed
Both fungus-farming ants and their fungi can synthesize the same structural polysaccharide from the β-glucose. What is this polysaccharide?
Chitin
Which of the following microsporidian features are shared with many other fungi? 1. chitinous cell wall 2. two haploid nuclei per cell 3. polar filament 4. chemoheterotrophy
Chitinous cell wall, two haploid nuclei per cell, and chemoheterotrophy
Fossil fungi date back to the origin and early evolution of plants. What combination of environmental and morphological change is similar in the evolution of both fungi and plants?
Colonization of land and loss of flagellated cells
In what structures do both Penicillium and Aspergillus produce asexual spores?
Conidiophores
Which of the following cells or structures are associated with asexual reproduction in fungi?
Conidiophores
If Bd cannot grow properly at temperatures above 28°C (82°F), then, assuming the amphibians can survive, in which time or place should the chytrid infection proceed most rapidly? 1. cooler months 2. warmer months 3. lower altitudes 4. higher altitudes
Cooler months or higher altitudes
Lichens are symbiotic associations of fungi and
Cyanobacteria or green algae
A fungal spore germinates, giving rise to a mycelium that grows outward into the soil surrounding the site where the spore originally landed. Which of the following accounts for the fungal movement, as described here?
Cytoplasmic streaming in hyphae
The following figure depicts the outline of a large fairy ring that has appeared overnight in an open meadow, as viewed from above. The fairy ring represents the furthest advance of this mycelium through the soil. Locations A and D are all 0.5 meters below the soil surface. Responses may be used once, more than once, or not at all. If the fungus that produced the fairy ring can also produce arbuscules, then which of the following is most likely to be buried at location "C"?
Deceased animal
Sexual reproduction has not been observed in Bd. If its morphology and genetics did not identify it as a chytridiomycete, then to which fungal group would Bd be assigned?
Deuteromycetes
If all of their nuclei are equally active transcriptionally, then the cells of both dikaryotic and heterokaryotic fungi, in terms of the gene products they can make, are essentially
Diploid
Immediately after karyogamy occurs, which term applies?
Diploid
The answer to which of these questions would be of most assistance to one who is attempting to assign the genus Sporothrix to the correct fungal phylum?
Does S. schenkii rely on animal infection to complete some part of its life cycle, or is the infection merely opportunistic?
Which of the following terms refers to symbiotic relationships that involve fungi living between the cells in plant leaves?
Endophytes
Which of the following conditions is caused by a fungus that is accidentally consumed along with rye flour?
Ergotism
Which feature seen in chytrids supports the hypothesis that they diverged earliest in fungal evolution?
Flagellated spores
When a mycelium infiltrates an unexploited source of dead organic matter, what are most likely to appear within the food source soon thereafter?
Fungal enzymes
When pathogenic fungi are found growing on the roots of grape vines, grape farmers sometimes respond by covering the ground around their vines with plastic sheeting and pumping a gaseous fungicide into the soil. The most important concern of grape farmers who engage in this practice should be that the
Fungicide might also kill mycorrhizae
The functional significance of porous septa in certain fungal hyphae is most similar to that represented by which pair of structures in animal cells and plant cells, respectively?
Gap junctions/plasmodesmata
Which of these paired fungal structures are structurally and functionally most alike?
Haustoria and arbuscules
Plasmogamy can directly result in which of the following?
Heterokaryotic cells or dikaryotic cells
All fungi share which of the following characteristics?
Heterotrophic
If Penicillium typically secretes penicillin without disturbing the lichen relationship in which it is engaged, then what must have been true about its partner?
It should have lacked peptidoglycan in its cell wall
Asexual reproduction in yeasts occurs by budding. Due to unequal cytokinesis, the "bud" cell receives less cytoplasm than the parent cell. Which of the following should be true of the smaller cell until it reaches the size of the larger cell?
It should produce fewer fermentation products per unit time
Which process occurs in fungi and has the opposite effect on a cell's chromosome number than does meiosis I?
Karyogamy
Mycorrhizae are to the roots of vascular plants as endophytes are to vascular plants'
Leaf mesophyll
Consider two hyphae having equal dimensions: one from a septate species and the other from a coenocytic species. Compared with the septate species, the coenocytic species should have
Less chitin
Which of the following has the least affiliation with all of the others?
Lichens
If haustoria from the fungal partner were to appear within the photosynthetic partner of a lichen, and if the growth rate of the photosynthetic partner consequently slowed substantially, then this would support the claim that
Lichens are not purely mutualistic relationships
Diploid nuclei of the ascomycete, Neurospora crassa, contain 14 chromosomes. A single diploid cell in an ascus will undergo one round of meiosis, followed in each of the daughter cells by one round of mitosis, producing a total of eight ascospores. What is the ploidy of a single mature ascospore?
Monoploid
Which of the following are protists, the organisms thought to share the closest ancestor with the chytrids?
Nucleariids
Which of the following characteristics is shared by both chytrids and other kinds of fungi?
Nucleotide sequences of several genes
The chytrid sporangia reside within the amphibian epidermal cells. Consequently, which term(s) apply to Bd? 1. ectosymbionts 2. parasites 3. commensals 4. pathogens 5. endosymbionts
Parasites, pathogens, and endosymbionts
Which of the following best describes the physical relationship of the partners involved in lichens?
Photosynthetic cells are surrounded by fungal hyphae
In septate fungi, what structures allow cytoplasmic streaming to distribute needed nutrients, synthesized compounds, and organelles throughout the hyphae?
Pores in cross-walls
If all fungi in an environment that perform decomposition were to suddenly die, then which group of organisms should benefit most, due to the fact that their fungal competitors have been removed?
Prokaryotes
What accounts most directly for the extremely fast growth of a fungal mycelium?
Rapid distribution of synthesized proteins by cytoplasmic streaming
Both fungus-derived antibiotics and hallucinogens used by humans probably evolved in fungi as a means to
Reduce competition for nutrients
In most fungi, karyogamy does not immediately follow plasmogamy, which consequently
Results in heterokaryotic or dikaryotic cells
Diploid nuclei of the ascomycete, Neurospora crassa, contain 14 chromosomes. A single diploid cell in an ascus will undergo one round of meiosis, followed in each of the daughter cells by one round of mitosis, producing a total of eight ascospores. Each of the eight ascospores present at the end of mitosis has the same chromosome number and DNA content (ng) as each of the four cells at the end of meiosis. What must have occurred in each spore between the round of meiosis and the round of mitosis?
S phase
Sexual reproduction has not been observed in Bd. A Bd sporangium initially contains a single, haploid cell. Which of the following processes must be involved in generating the multiple zoospores eventually produced by each sporangium? 1. S phase 2. cytokinesis 3. mitosis 4. meiosis
S phase, cytokinesis, and mitosis
Say S. schenkii had initially been classified as a deuteromycete. Asci were later discovered in the pus that oozed from an ulcerated lymph node, and the spores therein germinated, giving rise to S. schenkii yeasts. Which two of these are conclusions that make sense on the basis of this information? 1. S. schenkii produces asexual spores within lymph nodes. 2. S. schenkii should be reclassified. 3. S. schenkii continues to have no known sexual stage. 4. The hyphae growing in lymphatic vessels probably belonged to a different fungal species. 5. S. schenkii yeasts belonging to two different mating strains were introduced by the same thorn prick.
S. schenkii should be reclassified and S. schenkii yeasts belonging to two different mating strains were introduced by the same thorn prick
After cytokinesis occurs in budding yeasts, the daughter cell has a
Similar nucleus and less cytoplasm than the mother cell
The following figure depicts the outline of a large fairy ring that has appeared overnight in an open meadow, as viewed from above. The fairy ring represents the furthest advance of this mycelium through the soil. Locations A and D are all 0.5 meters below the soil surface. Responses may be used once, more than once, or not at all. In which of the following human mycoses should one expect to find a growth pattern most similar to that of the mycelium that produced the fairy ring?
Skin mycoses
A billionaire buys a sterile volcanic island that recently emerged from the sea. To speed the arrival of conditions necessary for plant growth, the billionaire might be advised to aerially sow what over the island?
Soredia
When adult amphibian skin harbors populations of the bacterium, Janthinobacterium lividum (Jl), chytrid infection seems to be inhibited. Which of the following represents the best experimental design for conclusively determining whether this inhibition is real?
Take infected amphibians and assign them to two populations. Leave one population alone; inoculate the other with Jl. Measure the rate at which infection proceeds in both populations.
Given the eukaryotic structures they lack, it should be expected that microsporidians also lack
The "9 + 2 pattern" of microtubules
The following figure depicts the outline of a large fairy ring that has appeared overnight in an open meadow, as viewed from above. The fairy ring represents the furthest advance of this mycelium through the soil. Locations A and D are all 0.5 meters below the soil surface. Responses may be used once, more than once, or not at all. At which location is the mycelium currently absorbing the most nutrients per unit surface area, per unit time?
The arrow pointing to the far left side of the circle
The following figure depicts the outline of a large fairy ring that has appeared overnight in an open meadow, as viewed from above. The fairy ring represents the furthest advance of this mycelium through the soil. Locations A and D are all 0.5 meters below the soil surface. Responses may be used once, more than once, or not at all. Which location is nearest to basidiocarps?
The arrow pointing to the far left side of the circle
The following figure depicts the outline of a large fairy ring that has appeared overnight in an open meadow, as viewed from above. The fairy ring represents the furthest advance of this mycelium through the soil. Locations A and D are all 0.5 meters below the soil surface. Responses may be used once, more than once, or not at all. At which location should one find the lowest concentration of fungal enzymes, assuming that the enzymes do not diffuse far from their source, and that no other fungi are present in this habitat?
The arrow pointing to the far right side of the circle
The following figure depicts the outline of a large fairy ring that has appeared overnight in an open meadow, as viewed from above. The fairy ring represents the furthest advance of this mycelium through the soil. Locations A and D are all 0.5 meters below the soil surface. Responses may be used once, more than once, or not at all. What is the most probable location of the oldest portion of this mycelium?
The arrow pointing to the middle of the circle
The following figure depicts the outline of a large fairy ring that has appeared overnight in an open meadow, as viewed from above. The fairy ring represents the furthest advance of this mycelium through the soil. Locations A and D are all 0.5 meters below the soil surface. Responses may be used once, more than once, or not at all. Assume that all four locations are 0.5 m above the surface. On a breezy day with prevailing winds blowing from left to right, where should one expect to find the highest concentration of free basidiospores in an air sample?
The arrowing pointing to the far right side of the circle
A researcher took water in which a Jl population had been thriving, filtered the water to remove all bacterial cells, and then applied the water to the skins of adult amphibians to see if there would subsequently be a reduced infection rate by Bd when frog skins were inoculated with Bd. For which of the following hypotheses is the procedure described a potential test?
The hypothesis that a toxin secreted by Jl cells kills Bd cells when both are present together on frog skin
Which tree depicts the closest relationship between zygomycetes and chytrids?
The one starting with ascomycetes and ending with animals
Which tree depicts the microsporidians as a sister group of the ascomycetes?
The one starting with ascomycetes and ending with chytrids
Which tree depicts the microsporidians as a sister group of the fungi, rather than as a fungus?
The one starting with ascomycetes and ending with microsporidians
Many infected animals are induced by the parasitic microsporidians to develop huge cells, known as xenomas, which are full of spores. Given their large size, what should be true of the xenomas?
The parasite must endow the xenoma with some way to overcome its unfavorable surface area-to-volume ratio
What do fungi and arthropods have in common?
The protective coats of both groups are made of chitin
Humans have immune systems in which lymph nodes are important, because many phagocytes and lymphocytes reside there. Given that a successful infection by S. schenkii damages lymph nodes themselves, which of the following is most probable?
Their conversion from yeast to hyphal morphology allows such fast growth that the body's defenses are at least temporarily overwhelmed
Sexual reproduction has never been observed among the fungi that produce the blue-green marbling of blue cheeses. What is true of these fungi and others that do not have a sexual stage?
Their spores are probably produced by mitosis
Which of the following is a characteristic of hyphate fungi (fungi featuring hyphae)?
They are adapted for rapid directional growth to new food sources
Which of the following statements is true of deuteromycetes?
They are the group of fungi that have, at present, no known sexual stage
The vegetative (nutritionally active) bodies of most fungi are
Three of these responses are correct.
The microsporidian, Brachiola gambiae, parasitizes the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. Adult female mosquitoes must take blood meals in order for their eggs to develop, and it is while they take blood that they transmit malarial parasites to humans. Male mosquitoes drink flower nectar. If humans are to safely and effectively use Brachiola gambiae as a biological control to reduce human deaths from malaria, then how many of the following statements should be true?
Three statements
The fact that infection by Bd causes lethargy in many infected amphibians can have what effect on efforts to accurately census the numbers of dead or dying amphibians at a particular time, in a particular habitat?
Two of the above statements are plausible.
What makes it risky to rely on the presence of chitin in adult amphibian skin as the sole positive test for the presence of chytrids?
Two of the responses above are correct
The hydrolytic digestion of which of the following should produce monomers that are aminated (i.e., have an amine group attached) molecules of β-glucose?
Two of these responses are correct
The lifestyle of microsporidians is most similar to that of
Viruses
Both axes of the graph are linear. Thus, the shape of the line plotted on this graph most accurately depicts the
Volume of a cylinder as length, L, increases
In both lichens and mycorrhizae, what does the fungal partner provide to its photosynthetic partner?
Water and minerals
