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Zygomycota - 200 Zygomycota - 200

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When zygomycetes reproduce sexually, they produce these.

Answer: What are zygospores?

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These two types of hyphae either extend down into the food source or along it’s surface.

Answer: What are rhizoids and stolons?

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Sporangia that form from a zygospore release spores that have half of the needed DNA. We call a sexual cell that doesn’t have a full set of DNA this.

Answer: What is haploid?

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This is the unifying characteristic of this phylum.

Answer: They have hyphae without septa no individual cells.

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When two haploid hyphae strains, called + and -, fuse together they form these.

Answer: What is a gametangium?

Ascomycota - 200 Ascomycota - 200

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Yeast, a unicellular ascomycetes, reproduces asexually using this technique.

Answer: What is budding?

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This phylum of Fungi is also called the ____ fungi.

Answer: What is sac fungi?

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The main sexual reproductive bodies in this group are a sac shaped structure called this.

Answer: What is an ascus?

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In the sac of this fungi, meiosis occurs forming many haploid spores. These sexual spores are called this.

Answer: What are ascospores?

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The asexual chain of spores that is typical of this phylum is called this.

Answer: What is a Conidia?

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These fungi are commonly called club fungi and are most commonly seen as these fall time structures.

Answer: What are mushrooms?

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These structures found on the underside of a cap increase surface area for spore production and release.

Answer: What are gills?

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The club shaped hyphae that produce spores are called this.

Answer: What is basidia?

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The button that pops up above ground for spore production and release is composed of this material that is tightly packed.

Answer: What is mycelium?

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These sexual cells are released from the gills and dispersed by wind, water, or animals.

Answer: What are basidiospores?

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This very important fungi in this phylum was discovered to kill off bacteria.

Answer: What is Penicillin?

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Fungi are placed in this phylum mainly because we lack knowledge of how they do this.

Answer: What is reproduce?

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Deuteromycetes can make food this type of flavor because it can be used to create citric acid.

Answer: What is a tart flavor?

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Even though we don’t know how these fungi reproduce, we still know that their cell walls are composed on this material.

Answer: What is chitin?

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The people who study deuteromycetes and other types of fungi are called these.

Answer: What are mycologists?

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Almost all Fungi get their energy from this process.

Answer: What is absorption or decomposition?

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These organisms, which include Fungi, cannot make their own food and must get their energy from their environment.

Answer: What are heterotrophs?

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This term is used to describe cells that contain nuclei, including all Fungi cells.

Answer: What is Eukaryotic or a Eukaryote?

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A symbiotic relationship involving a fungus and an algae or cyanobacteria.

Answer: What are Lichen?

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This name combines the Latin words for root and fungus. It’s a fungi-plant mutualistic relationship.

Answer: What is mycorrihiza?

Final Jeopardy Question Final Jeopardy Question

Question: This term is used to describe another type of asexual reproduction used by fungi. It occurs when the mycelium is broken into pieces that later grow into a new mycelium.

Directions:

On a small piece of scratch paper, write down your group’s number.

Next, each group writes down their group’s wager.

You can’t bet more points than your group has earned.

Bring me the piece of paper with group’s number and bet.

Answer: What is fragmentation?