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BESC 204 Final Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Question: The long "thread-like" tubular structures that is the basic cellular
unit of filamentous fungi
Answer: Hypha
Question:
A swelling on a germ tube or hypha (typically of plant pathogenic fungi) that
adheres to the surface of the host, and facilitates subsequent penetration of
the host
Answer: Appresorium
Question:
Flagellate, motile spores
Answer: Zoospores
Question:
The characteristic mode of growth of filamentous fungi in which all new
growth occurs only at the advancing cell tip
Answer: Polarized Growth
Question:
This is the concept that 2 organisms that look alike must be the same species
Answer: Morphologic Species
Question:
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This is the concept that 2 organisms that share DNA sequences must be the
same species
Answer: Phylogenic Species
Question:
Short, backwardly directed branches on hyphae of dikaryotic Basidiomycota.
These provide a bypass for one of the dikaryotic nuclei produced during
conjugate nuclear division. This structure assures maintenance of the dikaryon
in the hyphae
Answer: Clamp Connection
Question:
This is the fertile tissue specilizaed for production of the sexual spores in the
"higher fungi"
Answer: Hymenium
Question:
This hooked cell is the site where the dikaryon is produced in the Ascomycota,
and it is progenitor of the ascus
Answer: Crozier
Question:
Describes multi-nucleate hyphae lacking cross walls
Answer: Coenocytic
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Collective term for hyphae. The vegetative thallus of a fungus, excluding
fruiting structures
Answer: Mycelium
Question:
Definition of a fungus
Answer: A EUKARYOTIC, HETEROTROPHIC organism; devoid of chlorophyll;
with chitin is cell walls; that obtains its nutrients by ABSROPTION, and usually
reproduces by making spores.
Question:
This is a specialized organelle made by Ascomycota whose function is to block
septa during damage
Answer: Worin Body
Question:
Who is the author of your textbook, Magical Mushrooms, Mischievious Molds
Answer: Hudler
Question:
Hawksworth estimated that there are this many fungal species in the world
Answer: 500,000
Question:
The name of the fungus that is thought to be the largest fungal species in the
world
BESC 204 Final Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Question: The long "thread-like" tubular structures that is the basic cellular
unit of filamentous fungi
Answer: Hypha
Question:
A swelling on a germ tube or hypha (typically of plant pathogenic fungi) that
adheres to the surface of the host, and facilitates subsequent penetration of
the host
Answer: Appresorium
Question:
Flagellate, motile spores
Answer: Zoospores
Question:
The characteristic mode of growth of filamentous fungi in which all new
growth occurs only at the advancing cell tip
Answer: Polarized Growth
Question:
This is the concept that 2 organisms that look alike must be the same species
Answer: Morphologic Species
Question:
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This is the concept that 2 organisms that share DNA sequences must be the
same species
Answer: Phylogenic Species
Question:
Short, backwardly directed branches on hyphae of dikaryotic Basidiomycota.
These provide a bypass for one of the dikaryotic nuclei produced during
conjugate nuclear division. This structure assures maintenance of the dikaryon
in the hyphae
Answer: Clamp Connection
Question:
This is the fertile tissue specilizaed for production of the sexual spores in the
"higher fungi"
Answer: Hymenium
Question:
This hooked cell is the site where the dikaryon is produced in the Ascomycota,
and it is progenitor of the ascus
Answer: Crozier
Question:
Describes multi-nucleate hyphae lacking cross walls
Answer: Coenocytic
Question:
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Collective term for hyphae. The vegetative thallus of a fungus, excluding
fruiting structures
Answer: Mycelium
Question:
Definition of a fungus
Answer: A EUKARYOTIC, HETEROTROPHIC organism; devoid of chlorophyll;
with chitin is cell walls; that obtains its nutrients by ABSROPTION, and usually
reproduces by making spores.
Question:
This is a specialized organelle made by Ascomycota whose function is to block
septa during damage
Answer: Worin Body
Question:
Who is the author of your textbook, Magical Mushrooms, Mischievious Molds
Answer: Hudler
Question:
Hawksworth estimated that there are this many fungal species in the world
Answer: 500,000
Question:
The name of the fungus that is thought to be the largest fungal species in the
world
