Fungi Review

Fungi Review

Saprophytic

• Obtains their energy from decaying organic matter

• Example: A fungus growing on a dead tree

Parasitic

• Fungi that feed on other living organisms and usually harm them! :(

Symbiotic

• Fungi that feed on other living organisms but do not harm them. Often times they benefit them!

Phototropism

• Growing towards or away from the light

Gravitropism

• Growing with gravity

Negative Gravitropism

• Growing against gravity

Hyphae

• Long fibrous strands that allow the fungi to obtain energy and nutrients

Mycelium

• A large mass of hyphae

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What is phototropism

• When the plant or fungi grows with gravity

• When the plant or fungi grows against gravity

• When the plant or fungi grows towards the light

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What is gravitropism

• When the plant or fungi grows towards the sunlight

• When the plant or fungi grows with gravity

• When the plant or fungi grows against gravity

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What is saprophytic?

• When the fungi gets its energy from decaying organic matter

• When the fungi gets its energy from another organism

• When the fungi benefits another organism and does not harm it

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How does a parasitic Fungi get its energy?

• Through Decaying Matter

• By feeding on another organism and harming it

• By living on the organism and benefitting it

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What is the difference between hyphae and mycelium

• Hyphae is a large mass of the mycelium and mycelium is a single fibrous strand

• Hyphae is a single fibrous strand and mycellium is a large mass of hyphae

• Hyphae is the root and mycelium is the stem