Biology 2: Chapter 31 Fungi

Ruminant animals host what kind of fungi in their gut?

• Ascomycota

• Neocallimastigamycete

• Zygomycota

• Fungi can't live in the guts.

What are three disease caused by fungi (select all that apply)

• Rabies

• Athletes foot

• Ringworm

• Nail Fungus

True or False: Mycelium is a mass of connected hyphae.

• True

• False

Do fungi reproduce asexually or sexually?

• Fungi do not reproduce either Asexually or Sexually, they regenerate.

• Only Asexually

• Only Sexually

• They are capable of doing both

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What is the most common means of reproduction among fungi?

• Spores

• Free swimming sperm

• Budding

• Fragmentation

What branch of Fungi contains 75% of known fungi?

• Chytridiomycota

• Zygomycota

• Ascomycota

• Basidiomycota

Since fungi gain nutrients by ____, structures like hyphae tend to maximize____.

• engulfing, rigidity

• absorption, surface area

• metabolism, volume

• autrophy, transparency

The rapid growth seen in fungi is largely due to whish characteristic of unicellular and hyphal structures?

• The presence of chitin in cell walls.

• The presence of septa between cells.

• The formation of fruiting bodies for spore distribution.

• A high surface area to volume ratio.

What answer explains why human fungal diseases are harder to treat than bacterial diseases?

• Fungi have enzymes that can break down most drugs.

• Fungi have a close phylogenetic relationship to animals.

• Fungi can reproduce asexually and sexually.

• Fungi form spores that remain in the body for a life time.

A fungal cell that contains two genetically identical nuclei is described as:

• heterokaryotic

• homokaryotic

• diploid

• haplodiplontic