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Fungi
Chapter 21 lab quiz
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
04/16/2006

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What is the fungi mode of nutrition?
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Heterotrophic. They secrete enzymes from their bodies onto their food, which digest it internally. The digested materials are then absorbed into the body.
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What are the three ways we can characterize fungi based on its relationship with its food source?
Definition
Parasitic (feeds on living host,usually causing harm to that host), saprobe (feeds on dead host), or mutualistic (forms a partnership beneficial to both fungi and host).
Term
why are fungi important to the environment?
Definition
recycle the products of life, making the products of death available so life may continue.
Term
examples of foods we eat that are also fungus:
Definition
mushrooms, blue cheese (the blue veins in it), and citric acid.
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How is the kingdom fungi seperated into phyla?
Definition
broken into three seperate groups based on structures formed during sexual reproduction.
Term
what group do fungi that do not reproduce sexually go in?
Definition
imperfect fungi
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what are the four phylum of fungi?
Definition
Phylum Zygomycota, Phylum Ascomycota, phylum Basidiomycota, Imperfect fungi.
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