BESC 204 Exam 1 Complete Questions And Answers |
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1. Mycology the study of fungi
2. Fungus a eukaryotic, heterotrophic organism, devoid of
chloro- phyll, with chitin in cell walls, that
obtains its nutrients
by absorption, usually reproduces by spores and
usually exhibits a pronounced polarization of
growing cells
3. Eukaryotic cell with a distinct nucleus
4. Prokaryotic cell with no nucleus, genetic material is free-
floating
5. Mycelium collection of hyphae
6. Hyphae collectively comprise mycelium, elongate tip
growth/polar- ized growth
7. Saprotrophic absorptive nutrition
8. Chitin a structural polymer of glucose making up cell walls
in
fungi (in contrast to plant cells with cellulose)
9. Septa system for cell compartmentalization, cross walls
that al- low cytoplasm and organelles to move
through
10. Spores reproductive propagules, usually microscopic
11. Woronin Bodies plug up septa in case of damage to another cell,
found in ascomycetes
12. Meiosis sexual reproduction
13. Mitosis Asexual reproduction
14. Morphological organisms that look the same are of the same
Species species
Concept
15. Biological interbreeding natural populations mean they are of
Species the same species
Concept
individuals of the same species share a
16. Phylogenetic genealogical re- lationship
Species
Concept
17. Chytridiomycota first of of the six major phyla, contains zoospores,
spo- rangium, no hyphae, no septa, cell walls
have both chitin and cellulose, mostly aquatic
18. Coenocytic no septa
19. Zoospores spores that look like sperm, can move, aquatic
20. Thallus body
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