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What are fungi more closely related to?
Most fungi are multicellular or unicellular?
What do fungi have cell walls made of?
What are the threadlike fungal filaments called?
Why are fungi heterotrophs like animals?
Why are fungi different than animals?
Fungi are similar to bacteria because fungi use
what to obtain their nutrients?
8) Most plant diseases are caused by what?
9) What helps recycle organic matter in our
ecosystem?
10) What is the most important decomposer in
ecosystems?
11) How did fungi help plants become terrestrial?
12) What kind of entity is lichen?
13) Lichens are important pioneers on new land.. True
or False
14) How long can lichens live?
15) What environmental conditions can lichens
withstand?
16) What are lichens very sensitive to?
17) The mold Aspergillus may contaminate what
foods?
18) The mold Aspergillus can secrete a carcinogenic
(cancer-causing) liver toxin called what?
19) How are fungi similar to bacteria?
20) Do fungi produce chlorophyll?
21) Are fungi autotrophic (make their own food)?
22) Do fungi have a cell wall made of cellulose, like
plants?
23) What is more susceptible to parasitic fungi: plants
or animals?
24) Are most known species of fungi parasitic?
25) What is the general term for a fungal infection?
26) What is ringworm?
27) Where can ringworm appear?
28) Histoplasmosis is a disease from a fungus that is
found in what?
29) What organ is affected by San Joaquin valley
fever?
Animals
Multicellular
Chitin
Hyphae
Because they cannot make their own food
Because they cannot run or fly in search of food.
Extracellular digestion.
Fungi
Decomposers
Fungi
by forming mycorrhizal associations and helping early
plants to extract mineral nutrients from hostile soils
An association between a fungus and cyanobacteria or
green algae living together in a mass
True
Thousands of years
Severe drought & Severe cold.
Air pollution.
Improperly stored bread, peanut butter, & jelly.
Aflatoxin
because fungi use extracellular digestion to obtain
their nutrients
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No
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Plants
No
Mycosis
A fungal disease of the skin. It is not a worm, but it
leaves a rash in the shape of a worm.
Any skin surface
Soil that is rich in nitrogen (bat droppings).
Lungs; it is a respiratory disease
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30) What do you call a fungus that only causes disease
in people with a weakened immune system?
31) Vaginal yeast infections are the result of an
overgrowth of what organism?
32) What type of infection occurs when a fungus
called Candida invades the body through a break
in the skin or when excess nutrients become
available?
33) What type of organism is responsible for the
distinctive flavors of some cheeses, such as
Roquefort and blue cheese?
34) The first antibiotic discovered was produced from
what type of organism?
Opportunistic mycosis
Fungus
Yeast Infection
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