BIO 112: Fungi Exam with Questions & 100% Correct Answers
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What is the smallest phylum of fungi? - Glomermycota
T or F, arbuscular mycorrhizae is able to survive on its own. - F
What kinds of things are in the phylum Basidiomycota? - mushrooms, toadstools, puffballs,
shelf fungi, etc. and rusts and smuts
What are the members of the phylum Basidiomycota...
BIO 112: Fungi Exam with Questions
& 100% Correct Answers
What is the smallest phylum of fungi? - ✔✔Glomermycota
T or F, arbuscular mycorrhizae is able to survive on its own. - ✔✔F
What kinds of things are in the phylum Basidiomycota? - ✔✔mushrooms, toadstools, puffballs,
shelf fungi, etc. and rusts and smuts
What are the members of the phylum Basidiomycota named for? - ✔✔The basidium
What is the basidium? - ✔✔A club shaped reproductive structure is the Basiomycota
What phylum is 75% of the known fungi? - ✔✔Ascomycota
What kinds of things are in the Phylum Ascomycota? - ✔✔yeast, mold, truffles, morels, and cup fungi,
as well as serious plant pathogens
What are members of the phylum Ascomycota names for? - ✔✔The ascus
What is an ascus? - ✔✔A microscopic, saclike reproductive structure in Ascomycota
Are yeasts multicellular or single celled? - ✔✔single celled
What does yeast do? - ✔✔it ferments carbohydrates, breaking down glucose into ethanol and CO2
What is yeast used for? - ✔✔to make bread, beer, and wine.
, What is fungi's purpose? - ✔✔To make materials available to other organisms.
What do fungi do in the environment. - ✔✔Decompose things, break down cellulose and lignin from
wood, and release carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous.
What does obligate mean? - ✔✔That the symbiosis is essential for survival
What does facultative mean? - ✔✔that it can survive without the symbiosis.
What is commensalism? - ✔✔A symbiosis where one benefits and the other is not hurt or helped.
What is mutualistic? - ✔✔A symbiosis where both members benefit.
Where do endophytic fungi live? - ✔✔in intercellular spaces inside plants.
What do endophytic fungi do for plants? - ✔✔Some protect them from herbivores.
What are lichens? - ✔✔symbiotic associations between fungi and a photosynthetic
partner (sometimes cyanobacteria, other times green algae, or both)
Are most lichens mutualistic or commensalistic? - ✔✔mutualistic
What phylum of fungi is associated with the most species of lichens? - ✔✔Ascomycota
What does the fungi do for its photosynthetic partner? - ✔✔it protects from strong light
and dessication
T or F, Lichens are sensitive to pollutants. - ✔✔T
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