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| What are the three things that all fungi have in common? | They are consumers with cell walls and have eukaryotic cell structure., 
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| What is the role of most fungi in nature? | Decomposers or saprophytes,
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| What is a saprophyte?,
| Something that feeds on dead or decaying things. |
| Where do fungi digest their food? | Outside their bodies |
| Most fungi reproduce by forming _______ that float through the air before settling down to grow into a new fungus. | microscopic spores |
| What are the long threadlike cells called that make up most of a fungus' body? | hyphae,
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| What do hyphae release in order to break down the food that they are growing into? | digestive enzymes |
| What is the name of the structure that holds spores? | fruiting body |
| What are the three types of fungi? | sporangium fungi, club fungi, sac fungi |
| Bread mold is an example of a ________ fungi. | sporangium,
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| Mushrooms, toadstools and puffballs are examples of ______ fungi. | club |
| Morels, truffles, penicillium and yeast are examples of ______ fungi.,
| sac |
| An example of a fungus that is usually found as a single-celled organism is _____. | yeast |
| Yeast causes dough to rise by producing ______ gas while eating sugar in the process of ______. | carbon dioxide, cellular respiration,
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| What products will yeast produce during respiration if there is oxygen present? | carbon dioxide and water (like us) |
| What products will yeast produce during respiration if there is NO oxygen present? | carbon dioxide and alcohol |
| Give two examples of fungi that are parasites on humans.,
| athletes foot and yeast infections |
| What type of symbiosis occurs between humans and the fungus that causes athletes foot?,
| parasitism,
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| The type of symbiotic relationship that occurs between fungi when they grow around the root hairs of plants is called _____.,
| mutualism (the fungi help the roots absorb extra water and minerals in return for some food from the plant),
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| Which type of organism is made of part fungus and part single-celled producers? | lichen,
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| The single-celled organism that forms a symbiotic relationship with fungus can be a _____ or a _________. | blue-green bacteria or a green algae |
| What type of symbiotic relationship occurs inside a lichen?,
| mutualism,
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| Which type of fungus can be used as an indicator species for air pollution? | lichen,
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| Organisms that can be used to determine how clean or pristine an environment is are called ____. | indicator species |
| Which type of fungus is used to ferment beer and wine? | yeast |
| Which type of fungus produces a strong antibiotic? | Penicillium,
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| What should you never do to mushrooms that you find in the wild? | Eat them (Never eat mushrooms unless they have been identified by an expert as being safe. Many mushrooms are poisonous) |
What is the fungus that is covering this rock called?,  | Lichen, ,
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What type of fungus does this one represent?,  | sac fungus, |
What type of fungus does this one represent?,  | club fungus, |
The small structure on the tip of this strand of hyphae holds spores. What type of fungus would is be classified as?,  | sporangium fungus, ,
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What is this organism called?,  | Lichen, ,
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What is this organism called?,  | Lichen, ,
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| Besides fungi, what are two other types of organisms that digest food outside of their bodies? | bacteria (heterotrophic ones) and fungus-like protists,
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| How does food enter the cells of a fungus? | diffusion |
