PLANT DIVERSITY

BIOL 3601 – FALL 2004

JULIE ETTERSON

Fungi

Where to fungi fall in the phylogenetic tree?

Are they a monophyletic group?

What kind of organism what the putative ancestor of fungi?

What ecological roles to fungi play? (4 mentioned in lecture)

Are some fungi actively predacious? How?

What is the body of a fungus composed of?

What anchors fungi to substrate?

What specialized structure absorbs nutrients directly from host cells in parasitic fungi?

What is the difference between septate vs. ceonocytic hyphae?

What is the cell wall composed of?

How do fungi reproduce asexually?

How do spores disperse?

What are the three phases of sexual reproduction in fungi?

Chytridiomycota

Structure

Ecology

Life cycle

Zygomycota

Structure

Ecology

Life cycle

Ascomycota

Structure

Ecology

Life cycle

Basidiomycota

Structure

Ecology

Life cycle

Deuteromycetes

Structure

Ecology

Life cycle

How are they classified?

What is a yeast?