BESC 204 Exam -1 Questions With Correct Answers.

BESC 204 Exam #1 Questions With
Correct Answers

Mycorrhizae - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Symbiotic relationships between
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fungal hyphae and plant roots
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Stachybotrys Chartarum - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- "Sick Building
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Syndrome
- Severe Hematologic and Neurological damage
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Mycology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- The study of fungi
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- "Mykes" is greek for mushroom
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- "Logos" is greek for discourse
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How many kingdoms of life are there? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- 5 or 6
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is a common answer, but there could be up to 30
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According to Hawksworth, how many species of fungi likely exist? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- about 1,500,000
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According to Meredith Blackwell, how many species of fungi likely exist?
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- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- About 5,000,000
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,All fungi are - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Heterotrophic eukaryotes with
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absorptive nutrition (saprotrophs) | |




Eukaryote - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- A cell with a nucleus
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- A cell with membrane-bound organelle
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Hyphae - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- The branching, threadlike tubes that
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make up the bodies of multicellular fungi
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- Collectively comprise the Mycelium
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Hyphae collectively comprise the - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Mycelium
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Chitin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- A structural polymer of glucose found
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in many fungal cell walls
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Amillaria Ostoyae - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- "Humongous Fungus"
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- Largest living thing
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- 2,200 acre fungus in Oregon (3.5 square miles)
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- Estimated to be 2,400 years old
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- Estimated to weigh 605 tons in mass
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, Fungal Hyphae of many species contain_______, a system for "cell
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compartmentalization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Septa | | | |




Spores - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Reproductive Propagules
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- Usually microscopic
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Sexual spores are a product of - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Meiosis
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Asexual spores are a product of - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Mitosis
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Sexual Spores - Product of Meiosis include: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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Ascospores
- Basidiospores
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- Zygospores
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- Zospores
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Asexual Spores - Product of Mitosis include: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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Zoospores
- Sporangiospores
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- Conidia
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