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What is the role of fungi in ecosystems?
Fungi play an important role by consuming dead organisms.
What is the ecological importance of Glomeromycetes?
Glomeromycetes form mutualistic partnerships with plant roots and are ecologically important.
True or false: The honey mushroom in Oregon is the largest known living organism.
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True or false: Fungi are prokaryotic organisms.
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What is the role of fungi in ecosystems?
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What is the main difference between Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes in terms of their reproductive structures?
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True or false: Fungi are not important for the well-being of ecosystems.
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True or false: Fungi are autotrophs that produce their own food through photosynthesis.
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How do fungi acquire their nutrients?
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How do fungi acquire their nutrients?
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How do fungi reproduce?
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True or false: Fungi reproduce by producing seeds.
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What are the five main groups of fungi?
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How do fungi reproduce?
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True or false: Fungi reproduce only asexually.
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From what aquatic protist did fungi descend?
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How do fungi propagate?
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What is the origin of fungi?
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True or false: Fungi evolved from a multicellular, non-flagellated protist.
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True or false: Fungi do not form mutualistic relationships with plant hosts.
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True or false: Glomeromycetes are known for causing plant diseases.
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What is a mycorrhiza?
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What is a mycorrhiza?
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True or false: Chytrids are marine fungi.
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What are the unique characteristics of Chytrids?
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True or false: Ascomycetes are also known as sac fungi because of the way they produce sexual spores.
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True or false: Zygomycetes are resistant to harsh conditions.
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What are lichens?
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What are lichens?
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How do Zygomycetes survive harsh conditions?
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True or false: Lichens are a type of fungus that can survive in polluted environments.
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What is Neurospora crassa?
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What is the significance of Neurospora crassa?
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What is the structure of fungi for nutrient exchange?
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True or false: Glomeromycetes are not ecologically important.
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What are the different lifestyles of fungi?
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True or false: Basidiomycetes do not include mushrooms.
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What is the significance of the honey mushroom in Oregon?
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True or false: Some species of ants and termites cultivate fungi as a food source.
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How do some species of ants and termites use fungi?
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Study Notes
- The honey mushroom in Oregon is a huge subterranean mycelium that covers 890 hectares and has been growing for 2,600 years.
- Fungi play an important role in ecosystems by decomposing dead organisms and recycling vital chemical elements back to the environment.
- Fungi are heterotrophs that acquire their nutrients by absorption through exoenzymes.
- Fungi reproduce by producing vast numbers of spores either sexually or asexually.
- Fungi descended from an aquatic, single-celled, flagellated protist, and have radiated into a diverse set of lineages.
- Chytrids, zygomycetes, microsporidia, and ascomycetes are all different groups of fungi with unique characteristics.
- Glomeromycetes form symbiotic mycorrhizae with plant roots.
- Ascomycetes, or sac fungi, produce sexual spores in saclike asci and are called sac fungi.
- Fungi have been cultivated by humans for centuries for food, antibiotics, bread, beer, and wine.
- Fungi cause 80% of plant diseases.- Fungi reproduce through spores that are dispersed by wind.
- Ascomycetes have a heterokaryotic stage during the formation of ascocarps.
- Basidiomycetes are best at decomposing lignin in wood and produce basidiospores.
- Fungi are important decomposers and symbionts in ecosystems.
- Mycorrhizae are important for plant growth and almost all vascular plants rely on them.
- Lichens are a symbiotic association of photosynthetic microorganisms and fungal hyphae.
- Lichens are pioneers on newly cleared rock and soil surfaces and are sensitive to air pollution.
- Fungi can also be pathogens.
- Neurospora crassa is a well-studied ascomycete and serves as a model organism.
- Some species of ants and termites raise fungi in "farms" and feed them leaves.
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