Lab 4: Fungi Diversity

What group/category of fungi is this in?

Chytrid (most ancient group, have flagellated spores/zoospores, some are unicellular but most have coenocytic hyphae)

What reproductive stage is this bread mold in?

Mitosis (asexual)

What are the lollipop looking things?

Sporangia that produces spores (by mitosis)

What does this bread mold contain?

Hyphae

What reproductive stage is this bread mold in?

Fusion of parents; Meiosis (sexual)

What group/category of fungi is this in?

Basidiamycete

What are the lines?

Gills

What are the specks?

Spores

What is this? What are these sacs?

Basidiocarps; Ascus sacs (found in ascomycetes)

What happens in these sacs?

Meiosis

What is this?

Yeast (ascomycete)

What is this?

Penicillium; has conidiophores (asexual mitosis happens)

What is this? What are the filaments? What is the dark balls/lining?

Lichen; Filaments = fungi; Dark balls = cyanobacteria/green algae (has hyphae, is foundational, has 3 different growth forms)

What is this and what fungi group is it in?

Mushrooms & basidiomycete

What group of fungi is this?

Ascomycetes

What group of fungi is this?

Mucoromycetes

Is this in the sexual or asexual stage?

Sexual (growing out of spiky)

Is this in the sexual or asexual stage?

Asexual (growing out of hypha branch)

What is this and what fungi group is it in?

Puff balls & basidiomycetes

What are these?

Mucormycetes petri dishes

What is this and what fungi group is it in?

Tree fungi & basidiomycetes

What type of lichen growth is this?

Foliose (leafy)

What type of lichen growth is this?

Fruiticose (bushy/branchy)

What type of lichen growth is this?

Crustose (paint/flat)

What group of fungi is this?

Basidiomycetes

What group of fungi are these in?

Ascomycetes

What group of fungi are these in?

Basidiomycetes

What type of fungi growth is this?

Fruticose

What type of fungi growth is this?

Foliose

What type of fungi growth is this?

Crustose