What are the characteristics of fungi?

What are the characteristics of fungi?

Order fungal levels from smallest (cells) to largest.

These are connected strands or chains of fungal cells.

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In fungal budding, daughter cells are similar in size to parent cells

A type of fungal reproduction where 2 hyphae, classified as positive or negative, connect together and perform syngamy.

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This is the unison of cytosol and cell membrane of two different fungal cells. The opposite of cytokinesis

These are root hair-like structure found in fungi that absorbs nutrients.

These are fungi that feed on the dead or non-living

What do you call aseptate fungi or fungi with no septum?

Parasitic fungi feed on the dead

These are the boundaries of fungal cells.

Submerged hyphae are responsible for the nutrition of the fungi.

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These are the stem part of a fungal hyphae that has a sac which contains the spores of the fungi

Group the characteristics of the following

Type of spore that is stored externally without the use of a sac

Yeasts are filamentous under anaerobic conditions

These are a type of yeast mycelia that grows filamentous strands on its tips or apexes

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An informal fungal classification which includes fungi that changes its texture and diameter over time, from cottony to velvety

Link the unique characteristics of the following fungal divisions

These are the sacs of ascomycetes that contain sexual ascospores

The spore bearing body of a multicellular ascomycete

These are club shaped structures of the club fungi

These are the rings on a stalk of a basidiocarp which usually indicates that the mushroom is poisonous.

Basidiomycetes have basidiospores on basidia attached on the annulus of the basidiocarp's pileus

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Columella is to Sporangiophore as __________ is to Conidiophore

Conidiophores have contain naked conidiospores and have a structure called stigma

Classify fungal terms

Mycelia is composed of networks of hypha crumpled together.

Fungi are achlorophyllous and have a diplohaplontic life cycle