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23.1 Characteristics of Fungi
  • Fungi are saprotrophic detritivores that aid the cycling of inorganic nutrients in ecosystems.
  • The body of a fungus is multicellular; it is composed of thin filaments called hyphae.
  • As an adaptation to life on land, fungi produce nonmotile and often windblown spores during asexual and sexual reproduction.
  1. How do fungi obtain nutrition?
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  2. A mycelium is a network of filaments called ____________ which function to increase the _____________ to volume of the organism allowing for greater _____________ of nutrients.
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  3. How are fungi like insects?
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  4. In what form do fungi store food and is this more like plants or animals?
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  5. What is a spore?
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Essential Study Partner Summaries of major points:
  1. Fungi are multicellular eukaryotes
  2. Structure of fungi
  3. Reproduction of fungi
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23.2 Evolution of Fungi
  • Fungi are classified according to aspects of their sexual life cycle. Zygospore fungi have a dormant stage consisting of a thick-walled zygospore.
  • During sexual reproduction of sac fungi, saclike cells (asci) produce spores. Usually, asci are located in fruiting bodies.
  • During sexual reproduction of club fungi, club-shaped structures (basidia) produce spores. Basidia are located in fruiting bodies.
  • The imperfect fungi always reproduce asexually by conidiospores; sexual reproduction has not yet been observed in these organisms.
  1. How are fungal groups classified?
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  2. True or False: Fungi are only able to reproduce asexually.
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 Essential Study Partner Summaries of major points:
  1. Evolution of fungi
  2. Zygospore fungi
  3. Sac fungi
  4. Yeasts
  5. Club fungi
  6. Imperfect fungi
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23.3 Symbiotic Relationships of Fungi
  • Lichens, which may live in stressful environments, are an association between a fungus and a cyanobacterium or a green alga. The fungus may be somewhat parasitic on the alga.
  • Mycorrhizae is an association between a fungus and the roots of a plant, such that the fungus helps the plant absorb minerals, and the plant supplies the fungus with carbohydrates.
  1. What experimental evidence suggests that the fungal/algal interaction found in lichens is not mutualistic (in which both benefit)?
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  2. What benefit do plants receive from mycorrhizae and what benefit do mycorrhizae receive from plants?
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Summaries of major points:
  1. Lichens
  2. Mycorrhizae
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