BESC 204 Exam #1 Questions and
Answers
Mycorrhizae - Answer -- Symbiotic relationships between fungal hyphae and plant roots
Stachybotrys Chartarum - Answer -- "Sick Building Syndrome
- Severe Hematologic and Neurological damage
Mycology - Answer -- The study of fungi
- "Mykes" is greek for mushroom
- "Logos" is greek for discourse
How many kingdoms of life are there? - Answer -- 5 or 6 is a common answer, but there
could be up to 30
According to Hawksworth, how many species of fungi likely exist? - Answer -- about
1,500,000
According to Meredith Blackwell, how many species of fungi likely exist? - Answer --
About 5,000,000
All fungi are - Answer -- Heterotrophic eukaryotes with absorptive nutrition (saprotrophs)
Eukaryote - Answer -- A cell with a nucleus
- A cell with membrane-bound organelle
Hyphae - Answer -- The branching, threadlike tubes that make up the bodies of
multicellular fungi
- Collectively comprise the Mycelium
Hyphae collectively comprise the - Answer -- Mycelium
Chitin - Answer -- A structural polymer of glucose found in many fungal cell walls
Amillaria Ostoyae - Answer -- "Humongous Fungus"
- Largest living thing
- 2,200 acre fungus in Oregon (3.5 square miles)
- Estimated to be 2,400 years old
- Estimated to weigh 605 tons in mass
, Fungal Hyphae of many species contain_______, a system for "cell
compartmentalization - Answer -- Septa
Spores - Answer -- Reproductive Propagules
- Usually microscopic
Sexual spores are a product of - Answer -- Meiosis
Asexual spores are a product of - Answer -- Mitosis
Sexual Spores - Product of Meiosis include: - Answer -- Ascospores
- Basidiospores
- Zygospores
- Zospores
Chytridiomycota create ______, which are motile spores that can move themselves
place to place - Answer -- Zoospores
"True Fungi" phyla with flagellate spores, both Zoospores and Sporangia - Answer --
Chytridiomycota
- Blastocladiomycota
About how many described species of Chytridiomycota are there? - Answer -- About
1,000 described species
Chytridiomycota and Blastocladiomycota do not make - Answer -- Hyphae
What does the term "Coenocytic" mean? - Answer -- Septa are rare or absent
- Cellular organelles, nuclei, and cytoplasmic constituents move freely by cytoplasmic
streaming
Rhizoids - Answer -- Thin, rootlike structures that anchor the sporangium to its substrate
Notable species of Chytridiomycota, pathogen of frogs and toads and is responsible for
amphibian decline - Answer -- Batrachochytium Dendrobatidis "BD"
Batrachochytium Dendrobatidis "BD" - Answer -- Notable species of chytridiomycota
- Pathogen of frogs and toads, responsible for amphibian decline
Why is latin used to describe fungi? - Answer -- It is a dead language, meaning it is
done evolving
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