Fungi and Plants (SB025)

1.5 Kingdom Fungi

Explain the role of Fungi.

​Learning Outcomes:

Multiple Choice

Which of these is not a type of fungus?

• wheats

• yeasts

• moulds

• rusts & smuts

Multiple Choice

Which of these is not food for fungi?

• dead leaves

• tin cans

• human feet

• decaying trees

Multiple Choice

Which of these is not a use for fungi?

• As a source of medicine

• cleaning environment (pollution)

• helping plants grow

• fermented food production

Match

Match the following pathogenic fungi with the diseases:

Candida sp.

Basidiomycetes (Ustilago sp.)

Basidiomycetes (order Pucciniales)

Ascomycetes

• Candida sp.

• Basidiomycetes (Ustilago sp.)

• Basidiomycetes (order Pucciniales)

• Ascomycetes

Multiple Choice

The penicillin-producing fungi is belonged to phylum

• Zygomycota

• Ascomycota

• Basidiomycota

• Chytridiomycota

Multiple Choice

Fungi are NOT classified as plants because

• They do not have cell wall

• They produce asexual spores

• They do not produce flowers

• They do not have chlorophyll

Learning Outcomes:

1.6 Kingdom Plantae

Explain the evolutionary relationships among groups in the plant kingdom (bryophytes to angiosperms):

(i) size

(ii) dominance to gametophytes and sporophytes

(iii) dependence to gametophytes and sporophytes

(iv) water dependence in fertilization

(v) presence and complexity of vascular tissues

(vi) embryo protection.

Multiple Choice

Non-vascular plants belongs to which group?

• pteridophytes

• bryophytes

• gymnosperms

• angiosperms

Multiple Choice

Mosses and liverworts are called non-vascular plant because

• they lack motile sperm

• they lack seed

• they lack vascular tissue

• they lack true roots, stems and leaves

Multiple Choice

Dominant generation is gametophyte generation. This statement is TRUE for...

• pteridophytes

• bryophytes

• angiosperms

• gymnosperms

Multiple Choice

In a fern life cycle, the ____________ is the dominant generation.

• haploid gametophyte

• haploid sporophyte

• diploid gametophyte

• diploid sporophyte

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of pteridophytes?

• Sporophyte generation is dominant

• Gametophyte generation is dominant

• Produce spores

• Has true roots, stems and leaves

Multiple Choice

Seedless vascular plants, like ferns, reproduce with the use of ____.

• Seeds

• Spores

• Eggs

• Sperm

Multiple Choice

Plants that produce seeds in cones are known as _____, while flower producing plants are known as _____.

• Angiosperms; Gymnosperms

• Nonvascular plants; Vascular plants

• Vascular plants; Nonvascular plants

• Gymnosperms; Angiosperms

Multiple Choice

Angiosperms are the most successful terrestrial plants. Which of these features is unique to them and helps account for their success?

• Dominant gametophytes

• Fruits enclosing seeds

• Embryos enclosed within seed coats

• Sperm without flagella

Multiple Choice

Why Gymnosperms is more advanced compared to Pteridophytes?

• Vascular plants

• Sporophyte generation is dominant

• Produce seed

• Has true roots, stems and leaves