Bio124 Fungi Lab Report Quiz_100% Correct Answers
Fungi Lab Report
Which of the following is NOT true of fungi?
Select one:
a. They digest their food
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b. They recycle inorganic nutrients to photosynthesizers
c. Each of the filaments on the body is a mycelium
d. Fungi cells lack chloroplasts
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The correct answer is: Each of the filaments on the body is a mycelium
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Match the following terms with their correct definition.
Hypha Answer 1
Mycorrhizae Answer 2
Lichen Answer 3
Ascus Answer 4
Basidium Answer 5
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The correct answer is: Hypha → filaments on a fungi body, Mycorrhizae → symbiotic
relationship between fungi and plant roots, Lichen → symbiotic relationship between fungi and
filaments on a fungi body
symbiotic relationship between fungi and plant roots
symbiotic relationship between fungi and green algae
sac fungi sexual reproductive structure
club fungi reproductive structuregreen algae, Ascus → sac fungi sexual reproductive structure, Basidium → club fungi
reproductive structure
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What type of fungi is most closely related to club fungi?
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a. Sac fungi
b. Zygospore fungi
c. Chytrids
d. Mycorrhizae
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What are the fungal cell walls made of? How does this differ from plants?
Fungi cell walls contain chitin rather than cellulose.
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In terms of energy, why is fungi more animal-like than plant-like?
Fungi are more closely related to animals than plants. They are not capable of photosynthesis.
Fungi are heterotrophic, they use complex organic compounds as sources of energy and
carbon.
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How does fungi play an important role in human’s daily lives?
Fungi play an important part of human lives because they help us produce medicines like
penicillin. Fermentation is used to make things such as beer, bread, wine cheeses and soy
sauce. We also eat many different types of mushrooms and truffles.
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What is the benefit of septa in fungi?
Septa: the cells that connect hyphae. Septa is perforated by pores large enough for ribosomes,
mitochondria and nuclei to flow between cells. Septa prevents the loss of cytoplasm
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You have a loaf of bread on your counter, that over time develops a white or light green layer of
mold. What is the mold? What causes it, and why does it spread so quickly?
Zygospore fungi, Rhizopus stolonifer (black bread mold)
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Question textMatch the fungi phyla with its correct description.
Zygomycota
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Basidiomycot
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Ascomycota
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The correct answer is: Zygomycota → hyphae are tubular, branched, and aseptate,
Basidiomycota → produces four spores that remain attached almost like petals on a flower,
Ascomycota → sack-like reproductive structure
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Why do mushrooms continue to grow in the same areas, even after they are picked and
removed?
They have mycelia which grows underground. It stays there even after they are picked and
removed. It reproduces new mushrooms each year
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hyphae are tubular, branched, and aseptate
produces four spores that remain attached almost like petals on a flower
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Compare and contrast spores versus seeds in regards to nutritional requirements and dispersal
methods.
The difference is that seeds have nutrients within it and are dispersed by wind, insects, and
animals. Spores are also dispersed by wind and also by flowing water, passed along by animal
dung or even bursting spores. They do not have nutrients inside them so they must land at a
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