Biodiversity Unit 2 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
What are the four phylums in Kingdom Fungi? - ✔✔Phylum Zygomycota, Phylum
Ascomycota, Phylum Basidiomycota, and Phylum Duteromycota
What is an example(s) of a fungus from Phylum Zygomycota? - ✔✔Black Bread Mold
What kind of hyphae make up the mycelium in Phylum Zygomycota? - ✔✔coenocytic (no
partition between cell walls)
How are Fungi distinguished? - ✔✔how they reproduce sexually
What does a fruiting body do? - ✔✔releases spores into the air
What is the fruiting body called in Phylum Ascomycota? - ✔✔an ascocarp
what type of hyphae does Phylum Ascomycota have? - ✔✔Septate
What are some examples of fungi from Phylum Ascomycota? - ✔✔peziza, rye ergot, and
penicillin
What are the three meiotic types - ✔✔zygotic, gametic, and sporic
What is Syngamy? - ✔✔fertilization
What is Plasmogamy? - ✔✔the fusion of two cytoplasm from two different cell types
What type of hyphae does Phylum Basidiomycota have? - ✔✔Septate
, What is the fruiting body of Phylum Basidiomycota? - ✔✔Basidiocarp
How do phylum basidiomycota reproduce? - ✔✔sexually
What are some examples of Phylum Basidiomycota? - ✔✔Mushrooms, Toadstools, and
Puffballs
Why is Phylum Deuteromycota called the "Imperfect Fungi"? - ✔✔their sexual reproduction
is not observed
What re some examples of Phylum Deuteromycota? - ✔✔Mold, Ringworm, and predatory
fungi
What are predatory Fungi? - ✔✔they catch worms with modified hyphae, that form loops,
and eat them
What are the two types of fungal symbiosis? - ✔✔Mycorrhizae and Lichens
What is the symbiosis between plant roots and fungi called? - ✔✔Mycorrhizae
What are the three types of Lichen? - ✔✔crustose, foliose, and fruticose
For Lichen who is the mutualistic relationship between? - ✔✔fungi and either algae or
cyanobacteria
What are the five groups in Kingdom Plantae? - ✔✔Nonvascular plants, seedless vascular
plants, seeded plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms
What are the three phylums of nonvascular plants? - ✔✔Phylum Bryophyta (Mosses),
Phylum Hepatophyta (liverworts), and Phylum Anthocerophyta (Hornworts)
What does it mean to be heteromorphic? - ✔✔the gametophyte and sporophyte are distinct
Correct Answers
What are the four phylums in Kingdom Fungi? - ✔✔Phylum Zygomycota, Phylum
Ascomycota, Phylum Basidiomycota, and Phylum Duteromycota
What is an example(s) of a fungus from Phylum Zygomycota? - ✔✔Black Bread Mold
What kind of hyphae make up the mycelium in Phylum Zygomycota? - ✔✔coenocytic (no
partition between cell walls)
How are Fungi distinguished? - ✔✔how they reproduce sexually
What does a fruiting body do? - ✔✔releases spores into the air
What is the fruiting body called in Phylum Ascomycota? - ✔✔an ascocarp
what type of hyphae does Phylum Ascomycota have? - ✔✔Septate
What are some examples of fungi from Phylum Ascomycota? - ✔✔peziza, rye ergot, and
penicillin
What are the three meiotic types - ✔✔zygotic, gametic, and sporic
What is Syngamy? - ✔✔fertilization
What is Plasmogamy? - ✔✔the fusion of two cytoplasm from two different cell types
What type of hyphae does Phylum Basidiomycota have? - ✔✔Septate
, What is the fruiting body of Phylum Basidiomycota? - ✔✔Basidiocarp
How do phylum basidiomycota reproduce? - ✔✔sexually
What are some examples of Phylum Basidiomycota? - ✔✔Mushrooms, Toadstools, and
Puffballs
Why is Phylum Deuteromycota called the "Imperfect Fungi"? - ✔✔their sexual reproduction
is not observed
What re some examples of Phylum Deuteromycota? - ✔✔Mold, Ringworm, and predatory
fungi
What are predatory Fungi? - ✔✔they catch worms with modified hyphae, that form loops,
and eat them
What are the two types of fungal symbiosis? - ✔✔Mycorrhizae and Lichens
What is the symbiosis between plant roots and fungi called? - ✔✔Mycorrhizae
What are the three types of Lichen? - ✔✔crustose, foliose, and fruticose
For Lichen who is the mutualistic relationship between? - ✔✔fungi and either algae or
cyanobacteria
What are the five groups in Kingdom Plantae? - ✔✔Nonvascular plants, seedless vascular
plants, seeded plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms
What are the three phylums of nonvascular plants? - ✔✔Phylum Bryophyta (Mosses),
Phylum Hepatophyta (liverworts), and Phylum Anthocerophyta (Hornworts)
What does it mean to be heteromorphic? - ✔✔the gametophyte and sporophyte are distinct
