Chapter 32 Study Questions
DR. STEVENS BIOLOGY 112
STUDY QUESTIONS: CHAPTER 32
1. Who are mycologists? 2. Name 5 characteristics of fungi. 3. The body of a fungus is a mass of connected __________ filled with cytoplasm and nuclei. Some hyphae may be divided into cells by cross-walls called __________. 4. Define mycelium. 5. How is the cell wall in fungi differing from bacteria? 6. Distinguish between monokarytotic and dikaryotic. 7. Fungi can reproduce both __________ and __________. 8. __________ are the most common means of reproduction among fungi. 9. Fungi are __________ and they absorb their food by secreting __________ and then absorbing back into the fungus the organic molecules produced by __________.
10. Name two compounds fungi can break down.
11. How are fungi economically important?
12. How are fungi being used in bioremediation?
13. Name and describe the 5 groups of fungi (Table 32.1).
14. Which group of fungi are aquatic, flagellated fungi that are closest related to ancestral fungi?
15. Which group of fungi lack septa in their hyphae except when they form sporangia or gametamgia
16. In the zygomycetes, the resting structure is called the _____ which is found on the stalk of the fungus structure called __________.
17. Rhizopus is a __________ and is found in which group of fungi?
18. A group of fungi known as asexual plant symbionts are knows as __________. These fungi can’t survive without a host plant. The symbiotic relationship is __________.
19. Mushrooms, toadstools, puffballs, rusts and smuts are __________.
20. Mushrooms are used for __________ but others are hallucinogenic or deadly __________.
21. Basidiomycetes are named for their characteristics sexual reproductive structure, the _______________.
22. __________ or mushrooms are formed entirely of secondary (dikaryotic) mycelium.
23. __________ are consists of bread yeasts, common molds, morels, and truffles.
24. Ascomycetes are named for their
STUDY QUESTIONS: CHAPTER 32
1. Who are mycologists? 2. Name 5 characteristics of fungi. 3. The body of a fungus is a mass of connected __________ filled with cytoplasm and nuclei. Some hyphae may be divided into cells by cross-walls called __________. 4. Define mycelium. 5. How is the cell wall in fungi differing from bacteria? 6. Distinguish between monokarytotic and dikaryotic. 7. Fungi can reproduce both __________ and __________. 8. __________ are the most common means of reproduction among fungi. 9. Fungi are __________ and they absorb their food by secreting __________ and then absorbing back into the fungus the organic molecules produced by __________.
10. Name two compounds fungi can break down.
11. How are fungi economically important?
12. How are fungi being used in bioremediation?
13. Name and describe the 5 groups of fungi (Table 32.1).
14. Which group of fungi are aquatic, flagellated fungi that are closest related to ancestral fungi?
15. Which group of fungi lack septa in their hyphae except when they form sporangia or gametamgia
16. In the zygomycetes, the resting structure is called the _____ which is found on the stalk of the fungus structure called __________.
17. Rhizopus is a __________ and is found in which group of fungi?
18. A group of fungi known as asexual plant symbionts are knows as __________. These fungi can’t survive without a host plant. The symbiotic relationship is __________.
19. Mushrooms, toadstools, puffballs, rusts and smuts are __________.
20. Mushrooms are used for __________ but others are hallucinogenic or deadly __________.
21. Basidiomycetes are named for their characteristics sexual reproductive structure, the _______________.
22. __________ or mushrooms are formed entirely of secondary (dikaryotic) mycelium.
23. __________ are consists of bread yeasts, common molds, morels, and truffles.
24. Ascomycetes are named for their