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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 discours...

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BESC 204 Exam #1 Questions with
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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

Asexual Spores - Product of Mitosis include: - Answer-- Zoospores
- Sporangiospores
- Conidia

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
- It is a universal language

Morphological Species Concept - Answer-- Things that look the same are of the same
species

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