Microbes and Society Final ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Douro Valley - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Major wine producing region in Portugal with
foot crushing bays.
Potassium metabisulfite - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Antioxidant added to bottles of wine to
kill microbes.
Mushroom - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Fungi that produce both microscopic mycelia,
spores, and fleshy macroscopic fruiting bodies.
Toadstool - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Name of a myth: mushrooms that had warts
developing as a result of touching toads are poisonous.
Poisonous and/or hallucinogenic mushrooms were associated with sorcery & toad venom's
notoriety also associated with legends of magic, witchcraft, killings, and death.
It also describes any wild inedible mushroom by an English physician.
Use of toad venom - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Pokoman Myans - toad venom used in ritual
fermented drink for special potency (Mesoamerica)
Olmecs - magic love potions in a fat toad drinking vessel proposed to contain toad venom.
Also, ingredient, along with puffer fish poison made voodoo potion for zombification.
Diff Toads? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cane Toad = Super dangerous venom
Sonorant Desert Toad = Decent venom/poison
Features of a Mushroom - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. The Cap
2. The Gills
, 3. Stalk or Stem
(Most common type of mushroom is a gilded)
Polyporous = Mushrooms that don't have gills & have pores instead
Partial veils = protective covering that morphs as it develops into a ring.
Universal Veil = A round stalk found in Amanita Muscaria/fly agaric or Alice in Wonderland
Mushroom (People would chant on them)
Umbo = a knob on the mushroom (found on Redwood Roosters/ Caulorhiza umbonata)
Two Subdivision of Mushrooms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1) Basidiomycetes = produce
sexual spores on the exterior type of club shaped cells called basidia
2) Ascomycetes = produce sexual spores in flask-or club shaped sacs called asci --ex.
Erysiphe necator
--cap fungi
Basidia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sexual spores located along the gills of gilled
mushrooms.
Basidioles = immature basidia
Some examples: Bird's nest fungus, Giant Puffball, Stinkhorn fungus
Cystidia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Uniquely shaped and sized cells used as a key to
identify different basidiomycetes mushrooms
Raison d etre - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Means the reason for being: For mushrooms, that
is to facilitate the spread of spores.
Auricularia auricula - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- (Jelly Fungus; Judas's Ear/Wood Ear)
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Douro Valley - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Major wine producing region in Portugal with
foot crushing bays.
Potassium metabisulfite - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Antioxidant added to bottles of wine to
kill microbes.
Mushroom - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Fungi that produce both microscopic mycelia,
spores, and fleshy macroscopic fruiting bodies.
Toadstool - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Name of a myth: mushrooms that had warts
developing as a result of touching toads are poisonous.
Poisonous and/or hallucinogenic mushrooms were associated with sorcery & toad venom's
notoriety also associated with legends of magic, witchcraft, killings, and death.
It also describes any wild inedible mushroom by an English physician.
Use of toad venom - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Pokoman Myans - toad venom used in ritual
fermented drink for special potency (Mesoamerica)
Olmecs - magic love potions in a fat toad drinking vessel proposed to contain toad venom.
Also, ingredient, along with puffer fish poison made voodoo potion for zombification.
Diff Toads? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cane Toad = Super dangerous venom
Sonorant Desert Toad = Decent venom/poison
Features of a Mushroom - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. The Cap
2. The Gills
, 3. Stalk or Stem
(Most common type of mushroom is a gilded)
Polyporous = Mushrooms that don't have gills & have pores instead
Partial veils = protective covering that morphs as it develops into a ring.
Universal Veil = A round stalk found in Amanita Muscaria/fly agaric or Alice in Wonderland
Mushroom (People would chant on them)
Umbo = a knob on the mushroom (found on Redwood Roosters/ Caulorhiza umbonata)
Two Subdivision of Mushrooms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1) Basidiomycetes = produce
sexual spores on the exterior type of club shaped cells called basidia
2) Ascomycetes = produce sexual spores in flask-or club shaped sacs called asci --ex.
Erysiphe necator
--cap fungi
Basidia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sexual spores located along the gills of gilled
mushrooms.
Basidioles = immature basidia
Some examples: Bird's nest fungus, Giant Puffball, Stinkhorn fungus
Cystidia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Uniquely shaped and sized cells used as a key to
identify different basidiomycetes mushrooms
Raison d etre - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Means the reason for being: For mushrooms, that
is to facilitate the spread of spores.
Auricularia auricula - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- (Jelly Fungus; Judas's Ear/Wood Ear)
