Lesson 6 Study Guide "Fungi"

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What is the main reason fungi are not considered plants?

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They do not have chloroplasts and do not photosynthesize.

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What type of feeding do fungi exhibit?

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Heterotrophic; Saprophytic (feeds on dead or decaying material); external digestions (secretes digestive enzymes into environment and absorbs nutrients)

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What is the composition of the cell wall in fungi?

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Chitin

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Are fungi unicellular, multicellular, or both?

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Both, most are multicellular. Yeasts are unicellular.

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Which of the following is NOT a major phylum of fungi? Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, Glomeromycota, Myxomycota, Chytridiomycota

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Myxomycota

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What are the two morphological stages of fungi?

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Vegetative and Reproductive

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In fungi, what is the vegetative structure called that is made up of threadlike hyphae?

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Mycelium (mycelium mat)

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Which type of reproduction in fungi usually occurs in adverse conditions?

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Sexual reproduction

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Which type of fungi produces antibiotics like penicillin, discovered in 1928 and used by 1942 to cure previously deadly diseases?

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Ascomycota

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What is the asexual reproduction method in Ascomycota?

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Conidia