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Fungi

Quiz by Kate Downey

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  • Q1
    Fungi make their own food.
    false
    true
    30s
  • Q2
    A living organism that lives off another living thing and is helpful to that living organism is said to be
    helpful
    symbiotic
    parasitic
    fertile
    30s
  • Q3
    Fungi have true roots, stems and leaf structures.
    true
    false
    30s
  • Q4
    The structures that fungi have for taking in nutrients are called
    spores
    mycelium
    stalk
    basidiocarp
    30s
  • Q5
    The form of reproduction in which an organism grows a new piece that eventually breaks off to form a new organism is called
    budding
    fermentation
    binary fission
    spores
    30s
  • Q6
    Fungi can reproduce sexually.
    true
    false
    30s
  • Q7
    :Lichens are a symbiotic relationship are between a fungus and photosynthetic organism
    False
    True
    30s
  • Q8
    Which of the following is not a characteristic of the fungi?
    They are all absorptive heterotrophs.

    They are eukaryotic.

    They are all mobile (can move on their own)
    They have cell walls made of chitin.
    30s
  • Q9
    Mycorrhiza is correctly described as
    symbiotic relationship between fungi and roots of some plants
    parasitic association between roots and some fungi
    relation of ants with the stem of some trees.
    symbiosis of algae and fungi
    30s
  • Q10
    A mycelium is
    a mass of connected fungal hyphae.
    a mutualistic relationship between a fungus and a plant.
    a partition between the cells of fungal hyphae.
    a specialized reproductive structure of a fungus
    30s
  • Q11
    Absorptive heterotrophic nutrition is exhibited by
    fungi
    pteridophytes
    all protists
    algae
    30s
  • Q12
    Saprophytic fungi
    all of the above
    engulf their food in order to break it down.
    make their own food
    secrete enzymes that break dead organic materials down and absorb the nutrients
    45s
  • Q13
    Fungal diseases include all but which of the following?
    athlete's foot
    strep throat
    rust
    thrush
    45s
  • Q14
    The difference between septate hyphae and nonseptate(coenocytic) hyphae is
    a distinction between saprotrophic fungi and parasitic or disease-causing fungi.
    a classification trait that separates basidiomycotes from ascomycotes.
    a distinction between sexual and asexual reproduction.
    determined by whether the hyphae have cross walls or lack cross walls
    45s
  • Q15
    An individual filament of a fungus, with an elongated mass of cytoplasm with a nucleus , is called
    a mycelium.
    a hypha.
    a conidium.
    a basidiospore.
    45s

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