Exam 30: Fungi

Traditionally, classification of fungi has been based on ____.

The process in fungi that allows nutrients to flow from food-absorbing parts of the fungal body to other, nonabsorptive, parts is referred to as ____.

In fungi, both asexual and sexual spores are haploid, and both can germinate into diploid individuals. ​

Production of sexual spores in ascomycetes occurs in ____. ​

Explain the difference between plasmogamy and karyogamy.

Most fungi are aquatic.

Which fungal phylum has the most known living species?

Members of which fungal phylum form associations with approximately 90% of land plants by forming mycorrhizae with them?

Organisms of significant value to humans from the ____ phylum include truffles and morels.

The black bread mold Rhizopus stolonifer and dung-infesting fungi of the genus Pilobolus are members of which fungal phylum?

Some members of the ____ phylum can trap small worms, which are then digested.

Fungi generally digest large organic molecules ____. ​

Chytrids are the only fungi that produce spores propelled by flagella.

The study of fungi is called ____. ​

The grouping "conidial fungi," also known as "imperfect fungi" or deuteromycetes, is a convenience grouping for fungi that are not classified in other groups, because the conidial fungi ____. ​