Characteristics of Fungi

What is an example of fungi?

• Algae

• Mold

• Euglena

• Bacteria

What is a most likely an example of a decomposer of plants and animals?

• a euglena

• an amoeba

• a mushroom

• an owl

Organisms from which kingdom are most likely to chemically digest their food outside their bodies?

• Fungus

• Plant

• Protists

• Animal

Which of the following is a common trait to all members of the Kingdom Fungi?

• Presence of a cell wall

• Presence of roots for absorption

• Lives in only moist environments

• Presence of a flagellum

What characteristic do most adult fungi and plants share?

• They are both producers

• They both have cells with cell walls

• They reproduce through binary fission

• They both have multiple nuclei in each cell

Some plant roots grow with mycorrhizal fungi. The fungi absorb water and minerals and pass them on to the plant and receive carbohydrates from the plant. This is an example of -

• predation

• competition

• mutualism

• parasitism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The relationship between a fungus and an alga in lichen is an example of -

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• predation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Fungi are like animals because they -

• have cell walls

• contain chitin

• are heterotrophic

• have filamentous bodies

Fungi are like insects because they both -

• have cell walls

• contain chitin

• are autotrophic

• have filamentous bodies

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

How are Fungi classified?

• How they get their energy

• How they reproduce

• Their sizes

• How they move