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Phylums
Kingdom Fungi
Question | Description |
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Phylum Basidiomycota | "club fungi" -produce spores on basidia, saprophytic or parasitic *mushrooms, smuts, puffballs, shelf fungi |
Phylum Ascomycota | "sac fungi" -form spores in protective membranes *yeast, diseases that effect trees (Dutch elm disease, chestnut blight) |
Phylum Zygomycota | -form zygospores, reproduce both asexually and sexually *bread mold |
Phylum Chytridiomycota | -spores have flagella *chytrids, like muddy or aquatic areas |
Phylum Deuteromycota | "imperfect fungi", "holding area" -the fungi with sexual reproduction cycles that are not determined *antibiotic, penicillin |
Phylum Myxomycota | -behave like fungi when they reproduce, and behave like colonial protists when they feed, sometimes placed in kingdom protista *slime mold |