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Basic Biology Practice Test: Plant Diversity - Fungi
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Basic Biology Practice Test: Plant Diversity - Fungi
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1. Arrange the following from largest to smallest:1.ascospore 2.ascocarp 3.ascomycete 4.ascus
2. Which of the following terms refers to symbiotic relationships that involve fungi living between the cells in plant leaves?
3. When a mycelium infiltrates an unexploited source of dead organic matter, what are most likely to appear within the food source soon thereafter?
4. Among sac fungi, which of these correctly distinguishes ascospores from conidia?
5. Fossil fungi date back to the origin and early evolution of plants. What combination of environmental and morphological change is similar in the evolution of both fungi and plants?
6. Immediately after karyogamy occurs, which term applies?
7. What are the sporangia of the bread mold Rhizopus?
8. Which of the following best describes the physical relationship of the partners involved in lichens?
9. Which feature seen in chytrids supports the hypothesis that they diverged earliest in fungal evolution?
10. Which of the following statements is true of deuteromycetes?
11. If all of their nuclei are equally active transcriptionally, then the cells of both dikaryotic and heterokaryotic fungi, in terms of the gene products they can make, are essentially
12. Which of the following is a characteristic of hyphate fungi (fungi featuring hyphae)?
13. Which of the following cells or structures are associated with asexual reproduction in fungi?
14. Asexual reproduction in yeasts occurs by budding. Due to unequal cytokinesis, the 'bud' cell receives less cytoplasm than the parent cell. Which of the following should be true of the smaller cell until it reaches the size of the larger cell?
15. Sexual reproduction has never been observed among the fungi that produce the blue-green marbling of blue cheeses. What is true of these fungi and others that do not have a sexual stage?
16. The multicellular condition of animals and fungi seems to have arisen
17. In most fungi, karyogamy does not immediately follow plasmogamy, which consequently
18. The functional significance of porous septa in certain fungal hyphae is most similar to that represented by which pair of structures in animal cells and plant cells, respectively?
19. What do fungi and arthropods have in common?
20. Among the organisms listed here, which are thought to be the closest relatives of fungi?
21. What accounts most directly for the extremely fast growth of a fungal mycelium?
22. The photosynthetic symbiont of a lichen is often
23. If haustoria from the fungal partner were to appear within the photosynthetic partner of a lichen, and if the growth rate of the photosynthetic partner consequently slowed substantially, then this would support the claim that
24. Arrange the following from largest to smallest, assuming that they all come from the same fungus. 1.basidiocarp 2.basidium 3.basidiospore 4.mycelium 5.gill
25. Which description does not apply equally well to both sexual and asexual spores?