Science 1003 self test 2

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What name did Robert Hooke give to the compartments in a cork sample that he observed using a microscope?

Cells

What is the scientific name of an elm tree parasite.

Ceratocystis ulmi

T or F: Fungi are prokaryotes

False

T or F: THe fuzzy-looking structure in a mold colony are called sporangium.

False

What is the scientific name of something that produces common antibiotic.

Penicillium chrysogenum

Taxonomic category within a kingdom

Phylum

What is the scientific name of bakers yeast.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Reproductive cells which can tolerate bad conditions.

Spores

T or F: Ascomycota is the example of a kingdom.

True

Asexual reproduction of yeast

budding

Plant or animal which supports a parasite.

host

A group of hyphae

mycelia

What is the scientific name of common edible mushroom.

Agaricus bisporis

T or F: A zyzospore is the product of sexual reproduction.

False

T or F: An electron microscope is necessary to view yeast cells budding.

False

----- used mathematics to examine the principles of lenses, thus improving on previous attempts at magnification.

Galileo

Who is credited with discovering penicillin?

Alexander Fleming

T or F: Fungi are commonly grouped as sac fungi or club fungi based on the structire of their fruiting bodies.

True

T or F: Max Knott and Ernst Ruska invented the electron microscope.

True

T or F:The cell wall of fungi is composed of chitin, the same material found in the exoskeleton of a lobster.

True

Break down of complex molecules into simpler ones

fermentation

Structures which house the reproductive formation.

fruiting bodies

multinucleated thread like structures of fungi

hyphae

obtain food from non-living organic material

saprophyte

Mycelia responsible for obtaining food

rhizoids

Mutually positve realationship between two species.

Symbiotic

Give two reasons that the members of the phylum Chytridiomycota are sometimes grouped in the kingdom Protista rather than the kingdom Fungi.

a.All species are aquatic b.The gametes are flagellated.


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