True or false: Because they grow in soil and produce mushrooms above ground, fungi are more similar to plants than they are to animals.
False
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Fungal filaments are called
hyphae
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The cytoplasm of fungal cells can exhibit a characteristic flow. Where is this flow observed?
Throughout the hyphae, as cytoplasm passes through pores in the septa
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In some species, fungal hyphae do not have septa and contain multiple nuclei. Such hyphae are called \___ hyphae.
coenocytic
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Fungal hyphae are very long but only grow at their tips. How can they achieve such rapid growth?
Because of cytoplasm streaming, proteins synthesized throughout the hyphae can be quickly transported to the growing tips.
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When compared with other multicellular eukaryotic organisms, fungi are described as which of the following?
More similar to animals than they are to plants
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Which describes mycelium?
A mass of connected hyphae
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Which of the following best describes hyphae?
Long chains of cells joined end-to-end and divided by cross-walls with pores.
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The cell walls of fungi are composed of the polysaccharide
chitin
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Which of the following is a characteristic of the cytoplasm in fungal cells?
Their cytoplasm streams freely throughout the hyphae, because it can pass through larger pores in the septa.
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When a fungus undergoes mitosis, which of the following occurs?
The spindle apparatus forms within the nucleus.
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Which statement about fungal cells is true?
They may have one, two, or more nuclei
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Many fungi can reproduce by making both sexual and asexual
spores
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What is one unique evolutionary advantage of the unique multicellularity of fungi?
Free cytoplasmic flow due to pores in septa allows them to very rapidly make use of nutrients encountered in the environment.
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A mass of connected \___ is called a mycelium.
hyphae
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In some fungi, namely the basidiomycetes and ascomycetes, an intervening \___ stage occurs after fusion of two haploid cells and before the parental nuclei fuse to form a diploid nucleus.
dikaryotic
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Fungal cell walls are made of \____.
chitin
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Mitosis in multicellular fungi differs from that of other organisms in which way?
It is not followed by cell division.
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How do fungi reproduce?
Both sexually and asexually
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The aboveground portion of a fungus, such as a mushroom, is which of the following?
Reproductive structure
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Fungal spores \____.
can be produced through sexual or asexual reproduction
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The dikaryon stage occurs primarily in which of the following fungi?
Ascomycetes
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Basidiomycetes
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Fungi are \____.
heterotrophs
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What does the structure of a mycelium accomplish in terms of fungal feeding?
It provides a high surface area for the absorption of organic molecules, water, and minerals.
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What are you looking at when you see a fungus growing above the ground in forest soil?
The reproductive structures
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The main decomposers in the biosphere are \____.
bacteria and fungi
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The most common means of reproduction in fungi is through the production of
spores
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If a symbiotic fungus can survive without its host, this relationship is described as a(n) \___ symbiosis.
facultative
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A symbiotic fungus that obtains resources from its host, but does not cause disease, is called a(n)
parasite
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A fungus typically obtains food by secreting extracellular digestive \___, which break down organic molecules.
enzymes
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Which of the following describes a relationship which benefits one partner without harming the other?
Commensalism
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How does the structure of a mycelium allow for maximum absorption of nutrients?
Narrow, branching hyphae provide a large absorptive surface area.
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What are fungal endophytes?
Fungi that live within tissues of other organisms
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Fungi and bacteria are important in most ecosystems because of their role as \____.
decomposers
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A lichen consists of an association between a fungus and which of the following?
Cyanobacterium or green alga
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If a symbiosis is essential for survival, it is described as a(n) \___ symbiosis.
obligate
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Describe the fungi in lichens.
It can not grow normally without their photosynthetic partners.
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A symbiotic fungus that causes disease in its host is described as a(n)
pathogen
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A relationship that benefits both a symbiotic fungus and its host is said to be
mutualistic
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Fungi that live within the leaf and stem tissues of plants without causing disease, are known as fungal
endophytes
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Select all possible living components of a lichen.
Fungus
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Green alga
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Cyanobacterium
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In a lichen, the fungal partner does which of the following?
Penetrates the cell wall, but not plasma membrane, of the photosynthetic partner
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What are mycorrhizae?
Associations between the hyphae of certain fungi and the roots of plants
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Mycorrhizal relationships provide plants with
minerals
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In a mycorrhizal relationship, the host \___ produces organic nutrients for use by the \___.
plant; fungus
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Mutualistic associations between the hyphae of certain fungi and the roots of most seed plants are known as
mycorrhizae
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Which type of mycorrhizae grows on the surfaces of tree roots, but not beyond the of walls of the root cells?
Ectomycorrhizae
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Select all characteristics of ectomycorrhizae.
-The fungal component is usually a basidiomycete.
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-Most plant hosts are forest trees such as pines, oaks, and birches
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Which member of a mycorrhizal relationship benefits through improved uptake of nutrients?
Plant
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What benefit do mycorrhizal fungi receive from their plant partners?
Organic nutrients
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Fungi have formed mutualistic symbioses with which of the following?
Some animal species, such as ants and ruminants
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Why is treating fungal diseases in animals particularly difficult?
Fungi are phylogenetically related to animals
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Which of the following has hyphae that grow in the space between the cell wall and the plasma membrane of a plant cell?
Arbuscular mycorrhizae
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Carcinogenic compounds produced by some Aspergillus flavus strains are called
aflatoxins
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Compared to the arbuscular mycorrhizae, the \___ involve far fewer species of plants.
ectomycorrhizae
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Traditionally, fungi were divided into four phyla based primarily on which characteristic?
Meiosis
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Select all examples of mutual symbioses between fungi and animals.
-Leaf cutters ants that cultivate fungi
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-Fungi in the guts of ruminant animals
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In 2007, mycologists agreed to classify all fungi into seven phyla: \___, Blastocladiomycota, Neocallimastigomycota, Chytridiomycota, \___, Basidiomycota, and Ascomycota.
Glomeromycota; Microsporidia
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It is often more difficult to treat human diseases caused by fungi than those by bacteria because \____.
both humans and fungi are eukaryotes
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Based on DNA evidence showing the presence of mitochondrial genes, microsporidia have been moved to the fungal kingdom from which of the following?
Protist kingdom
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Select all effects of aflatoxins.
Kidney damage
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Nerve damage
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Cancer
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Blastocladiomycetes, neocallimastigomycetes, and chytridiomycetes were originally grouped as a single phylum, based on which of the following feature?
Presence of flagellated zoospores
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Select the feature that distinguishes the chytridiomycota and relatives from the other groups of fungi.
Flagellated spores
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Select the four traditional fungal phyla.
Zygomycota
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Basidiomycota
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Ascomycota
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Chytridiomycota
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Select all true statements about blastoclads.
They produce zoospores.
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They are parasitic.
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They have a haplodiplontic life cycle.
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Which of the following is not a fungal group?
Poriferamycota
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Microsporidia have been tentatively moved from the protists to the fungi based on which of the following?
Analysis of DNA sequence data
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Until DNA evidence provided evidence to the contrary, flagellated spores were used to group the blastocladiomycetes with the \____.
chytrids
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Chytridiomycota are distinguished from other fungi because they possess flagellated \___, released from a specialized structure called a chytridion.
zoospores
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Which of the following is a feature of Blastocladiomycota?
Alternation of multicellular haploid and diploid life cycles
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Select all true statements about neocallimastigomycetes.
-They are anaerobic.
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-They produce zoospores with multiple flagella
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Zygomycetes have cell walls that contain a modified form of chitin called
chitosan
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Zygomycete asexual spores are contained in which structure?
Sporangia
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Which phylum contains fungi that are anaerobic and use hydrogenosomes instead of mitochondria.
Neocallimastigomycota
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Which of the following are glomeromycetes?
Mycorrhizae
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How does the primary mycelium in Basidiomycota differ from that of the secondary mycelium?
The primary mycelium is made up of monokaryotic hyphae, while the secondary mycelium is composed of dikaryotic hyphae.
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With the exception of their gametangia, the hyphae of zygomycetes
lack septa
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Which of the following contain truffles and morels?
Ascomycetes
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Zygomycete sporangia contain which of the following?
Thin-walled asexual spores
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Which of the following best characterizes the hyphae of ascomycetes?
The hyphae are divided by septa with pores.
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Select all true statements about the Glomeromycota.
They do not undergo sexual reproduction.
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They form arbuscular mycorrhizae.
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The basidiomycete mycelium composed of monokaryotic hyphae is called the \___ mycelium, while that containing dikaryotic hyphae is called the \___ mycelium.
primary; secondary
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What are truffles and morels?
Edible fruiting bodies of ascomycetes
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In ascomycetes, hyphae are \______.
separated by perforated septa and cytoplasm flows along the length of each hypha
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Ascomycetes produce sexual spores within a sac called a(n)
ascus
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True or false: The unicellular ascomycetes, yeast, cannot form ascospores.