Fungal Diversity

Unit 2, Day 5 – BIOL 242 – Diversity of Life

Fungal Diversity Learning Outcomes

As you complete your assigned readings from Campbell’s Biology, keep an eye out for information about

each of the following learning outcomes. These outcomes will be transformed into questions that will

appear in your clicker questions, homework, quizzes, and exams.

1. Identify the traits of fungi that are:

o shared with plants,

o shared with animals, and

o unique to fungi

2. Classify fungi, plants, and animals into their supergroups within Domain Eukarya.

3. Name the protist groups that are most closely related to:

o fungi,

o plants, and

o animals

4. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of multicellularity and unicellularity.

5. Identify an unknown organism as a fungus, based on a description of its traits.

6. Identify examples of the most common fungal lifestyles (i.e., roles in the ecological community)

from a description or image.

7. Identify examples of the two common body structures of fungi from a description or image.

8. Distinguish between examples of asexual and sexual reproduction among fungi when described.

9. Classify an unknown fungus as a chytrid, ascomycete, or basidiomycete from an image or

description.

10. Name ecosystem services provided by fungi.

11. Recreate the generalized life cycle of a fungus, label the stages, and be able to:

o state the ploidy (i.e., number of gene copies) of cells in each stage

o state the number of nuclei within cells in each stage

o label the sexual and asexual reproduction cycles

o apply the stages to descriptions of fungal organisms

12. Distinguish between descriptions of fungal organisms that are heterokaryotic, haploidy, diploidy,

and triploidy.

13. Distinguish between plasmogamy and karyogamy in a description and on the generalized fungal

life cycle.

14. Compare the generalized fungal life cycle to the generalized plant life cycle.