BESC 204 Exam 1 Question and answers already passed
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BESC 204 Exam 1 Question and answers already passed What are some uses of beneficial fungi? - correct answer -plant interactions (mycorrhizal and endophytes)
-drug and chemical production
-food
-decomp
-biocontrols
-environmental stress tolerance
endophytic fungi - correct answer -prom...
BESC 204 Exam 1 Question and answers
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Mycology - correct answer ✔the study of fungi
Fungus - correct answer ✔a eukaryotic, heterotrophic organism, devoid of
chlorophyll, with chitin in cell walls, that obtains its nutrients by absorption,
usually reproduces by spores and usually exhibits a pronounced polarization
of growing cells
Eukaryotic - correct answer ✔cell with a distinct nucleus
Prokaryotic - correct answer ✔cell with no nucleus, genetic material is free-
floating
Chitin - correct answer ✔a structural polymer of glucose making up cell walls
in fungi (in contrast to plant cells with cellulose)
Septa - correct answer ✔system for cell compartmentalization, cross walls
that allow cytoplasm and organelles to move through
, Spores - correct answer ✔reproductive propagules, usually microscopic
Woronin Bodies - correct answer ✔plug up septa in case of damage to
another cell, found in ascomycetes
Meiosis - correct answer ✔sexual reproduction
Mitosis - correct answer ✔Asexual reproduction
Morphological Species Concept - correct answer ✔organisms that look the
same are of the same species
Biological Species Concept - correct answer ✔interbreeding natural
populations mean they are of the same species
Phylogenetic Species Concept - correct answer ✔individuals of the same
species share a genealogical relationship
Chytridiomycota - correct answer ✔first of of the six major phyla, contains
zoospores, sporangium, no hyphae, no septa, cell walls have both chitin and
cellulose, mostly aquatic
Coenocytic - correct answer ✔no septa
Zoospores - correct answer ✔spores that look like sperm, can move, aquatic
Thallus - correct answer ✔body
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