BESC 204 final exam Question and answers correctly solved
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BESC 204 final exam Question and answers correctly solved Fungi - correct answer Kingdom composed of heterotrophs
-Eukaryotic
- devoid of chlorophyll
- obtains nutrition through absorption
-typically reproduces through spores
Number of fungal species estimation - correct answer approx...
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Fungi - correct answer ✔Kingdom composed of heterotrophs
-Eukaryotic
- devoid of chlorophyll
- obtains nutrition through absorption
-typically reproduces through spores
Number of fungal species estimation - correct answer ✔approx 1.5 million
Septum - correct answer ✔cross wall cytoplasm organelles cross through
Hyphae - correct answer ✔The branching, threadlike tubes that make up the
bodies of multicellular fungi
- Blastocladiomycota
-zygomycota
-zoopagomycota
-ascomycota
-basidiomycota
Mycellium - correct answer ✔mass of hyphae
Largest Oldest organism in the world - correct answer ✔Amillaria Ostoyae
(approx 2400 years old)
,Cell Compartment - correct answer ✔Not individual cells like in animals
where cytoplasm doesn't mix. Cytoplasm mixes from one cell to another.
Woronin body - correct answer ✔mass of protein unique to fungi that plugs
the pore in case of cytoplasm bleeding out. Found ONLY in ascomycetes.
Chitin - correct answer ✔structural polymer of glucose found in many fungal
cell walls.
Why is latin used for names and descriptions? - correct answer ✔Because
latin is a dead language that is never changing so the names will always be
the same.
Zoospores - correct answer ✔flagellated asexual spore only in chitrids
-finds root through chemotaxis; penetrates root; reproduces asexually.
, Morphological species concept - correct answer ✔characterizes a species by
body shape and other structural features
Biological species concept - correct answer ✔Species is a group of
populations whose members have the potential to produce fertile offspring.
phylogenetic species concept - correct answer ✔defines a species as the
smallest group of individuals that share a common ancestor
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis - correct answer ✔chytrid been associated
with declining harlequin frog populations
Thallus - correct answer ✔body of the fungus. rhizoids anchor this to a
substrate
Allomyces macrogynus - correct answer ✔zoosporic aquatic fungus that
makes hyphae that lack septa.
-blastocladiomycota
Rhizoids - correct answer ✔A thin, rootlike structure that anchors and
absorbs water and nutrients.
Sporangiospores - correct answer ✔Asexual spores of zygomycetes made in
a sporangium.
Sporangium - correct answer ✔specialized cell where spores are produced.
-chytridiomycota/ blastocladiomycota and zyogmycota/ zoopagomycota
-many cells formed at once
-discontinuous cell wall.
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