Exam 3: Chapter 29
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
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
The Five Main Groups of Fungi
Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota, Glomeromycota, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota
The only fungi with flagellated cells
Chytridomycetes
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
Which one of the following is mismatched?
Dutch elm disease-glomeromycetes
True or False: Members of the Glomeromycota may be involved with mycorrhizae
FALSE
Lichens are most typically formed by the symbiotic association of an alga or cyanobacterium and a(n):
Glomeromycete
Which fungal group is coenocytic and reproduce asexually via blastospores?
Glomeromycetes
A ____ is a filament that makes up the vegetative body of most fungi.
Hypha
Fungal bodies consist of long branched filaments called ____
Hypha
Color pigments produced by ____ are used to dye woolens and litmus.
Lichen
Of the following, which would be predicted to grow at the slowest rate?
Lichen
Reduction in ____ growth is used as a sensitive indicator of air pollution.
Lichen
Most fungi are ____
Multicellular, but some are unicellular
Tangled network of hypha
Mycelium
How do mycorrhizae benefit plants?
Mycorrhizae increase a plant's absorptive surface area of roots.
Which process marks the start of the dikaryotic stage (n + n) in the fungal reproductive cycle?
Plasmogamy
Cell walls that divide hypha
Septa
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
When bread gets moldy with visible black or blue spots, you are looking at masses of the colored:
Spores
True or False: Microsporidia lack Golgi bodies and mitochondria
TRUE
A simple body composed of a few cells
Thallus
What makes up most of the mass of an individual mushroom?
Underground mycelium
What is an example of a plant disease caused by a basiodiomycete?
Wheat Rust
Which unicellular fungus is probably in most kitchens?
Yeast
Fungi that lack septa are called:
coenocytic
One ancestral characteristic remaining in representatives of the Chytridiomycota is:
flagellated cells
Fungi parasitic on plants produce specialized hyphae, called ____, that penetrate the host.
haustoria
Hyphae of a basidiomycete's primary mycelium consist of ____ cells.
monokaryotic
Most fungal spores are ____ reproductive cells that are produced ____.
nonmotile; sexually or asexually
