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Question | Answer |
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Where can fungi be found? | everywhere |
Food, water, air, toes, damp basement walls, and between gardens is where ___can be found | Fungi |
Fungi characteristics are large, bright and ____, easily overlooked | Colorful |
Fungi has distinctive names like stink___, puff___, and ring ____ | horn ball worm |
Fungi was once classified as ____ | plants |
Fungi differ form plants because they lack ______ and are not ______ | chlorophyll photosynthetic |
Fungi never reproduces from ____ | seeds |
Fungi cell wall is made of ______ and not cellulose like plants | chittin |
Common characteristic of fungi include ______ organisms | eukaryotic |
Most fungi are ____, few are ______ | multicellular unicellular |
Fungi cannot _____by themselves | move |
Common characteristic of fungi that depends on other organisms for their nutrition | heterotrophs |
What obtains nutrients by digesting and absorbing nutrients | saphrophytes |
What obtains their nutrients from living hosts | parasites |
What is able to trap and kill their prey | predators |
Name 3 structures of fungi, in alphabetical order | fruiting body hyphae mycellium |
The body of a fungus is composed of ___ cells | unusual |
Hyphae are the living growing ___ of multicellular fungi | parts |
Multicellar fungi consists of a _____hyphae | mass |
Name an example of fruiting body | mushroom |
What are long slender filaments that make up the body of a fungus | hyphae |
What are densely branched network of the hyphae of a fungus | mycellium |
What is the reproductive structure of fungus that grows from the mycellium | fruiting body |
Fungi grows ___ because of the structure of their mycellium | rapidly |
Fungi grows because the hyphae grows _______ | longer |
Fungi is important to the ______and humans | environment |
Fungi have a role in _____ nutrients | recycling |
Fungi _____humans examples yeast and antibiotics | benefit |
Fungi are important to the maintenance of the environment to _____ ecosystem | stabilize |
Most saprophyte decomposers break down ______organic material | decaying |
Without fungal decomposers, the ecosystem would _____ | collapse |
Parasitic fungi cause disease in plants and animals by disupting ________ | homeostasis |
Fungal diseases are caused in plants, _____, frogs, and mammals | insects |
Name 2 Examples of human fungal disease in alphabetical order: | athletes foot ringworm |
Some fungi form ______ associations with photosynthetic organisms which both partners ______ | mutualistic benefit |
______is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism | Lichen |
Lichen absorb nutrients from _____ and from the photosynthetic organisms allowing them to _____ almost on any surface. | air grow |
The photosynthetic organism receives _____ and protection from the ______ | water sunlight |
Fungi are vital for growth in many ______ | plants |
_____ is the mutualistic association between a fungus and the roots of a plant | Mycorrhizae |
Fungus benefits because it can ____nutrients made by a synthetic organism | absorb |
1 advantage the mycorrhizae provide to plants | root extension |
another advantage mycorrihizae provides plants: break down organic material in the soil providing steady ______ to the plant | nutrients |
Fungi is ____ helping humans in many ways | beneficial |
2 ways fungi can be destructive | damage property and rotting wood |
Fungi provides diversity resulting in more than ____ known species of fungi | 100,000 |
The phyla of fungi differ in their _______ structures | reproductive |
There are four major ____ of fungi | phyla |
Deuteromycota is an ______ fungi | imperfect |
The one characteristic common to all deuteromycotes is the ______ of sexual reproduction. | absence8 |
The mold like _______ and aspergullus are both imperfect fungi | penicillin |
Imperfect fungi causes athletes foot, ringworm, and fingernail _______ | infections |
One of the most unusual members of the deuteromycota division is ________ a fungal predator that can trap small ________ | arthobotyrs worms |
Phyla with common mold and zygospores | zygomycota |
Phyla with sac fungi, morals, truffle, penicillin | ascomycota |
Phyla with club fungi called basidia | Basidiomycota |
Phyla with parasite of frogs and decomposers | Chytridiomycota |