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Circle shaped bacteria?
Cocci
Rod shaped bacteria?
Bacilli
Spiral shaped bacteria?
Spirilli
A blue green Bacteria (Domain + Phylum)
Bacteria - Cyanobacteria
A cyanobacterium with bead-like cells that have heterocysts.
Anabaena (Genus) (Looks like beads "blue green in color" with larger cells in between)
What happens in a heterocyst?
Nitrogen Fixation
A cyanobacterium named for its movement.
Oscillatoria (Genus) (Looks like a long strand "blue green in color" with black lines running throughout the body)
A cyanobacterium named for its spiral shape. It is used as a food source of flower.
Spirulina (Genus) (Looks like a long strand "green in color" and spirals around.
This cyanobacterium causes false branching.
Scytonema
This cyanobacterium causes true branching.
Stigonema
What is false branching?
When all cells divide onlu in one plane; a cell in the filament dies and the two vells on either side of it continue to divide, causing the filament to curve out on either side of the dead cell, giving it the appearance of branching.
What is true branching?
When the cells are capable of dividing in a second plane.
This cyanobacteria looks like balls and can be found floating in freshwater lakes and ponds. It is also a nitrogen fixing organism.
Nostoc (Genus) (Looks like a bead necklace "green in color")
Are fungi heterotroph or autotroph?
Heterotroph duh! They also obtain their nutrition by absorption.
Branching vegetative thalli of a fungus?
Mycelia (Mycelium)
Mycelia are composed of individual filaments called what?
Hyphae with cell walls of chitin.
The Division Zygomycota in the Fungus Kingdom are commonly knows as what?
bread molds which are characterized by coenocytic (multinucleate) hyphae and lack motile cells.
A heterothallic fungus in the divison zygomycota. Heterothallic meaning two mating types (+ and -) are needed for sexual reproduction.
Phycomyces (Genus) (Looks like a thin line in the air with a head on top)
This division Zygomycota fungus is the common bread mold and reproduces both sexually and asexually.
Rhizopus (Genus) (Looks like two things with a ball in the middle called the zygosporangial).
What is the difference between a sporangial and a zygosporangial?
Sporangial is smaller, and lighter in color. It is formed after gerination has taken place. The zygosporangim comes before the sporangial.
This division zygomycota fungus shoots its sporangia toward the light.
Pilobolus (Think of a pellow, and when you wake up, you throw your pellow at the light becasue you want to go back to bed. Also think circus freaks, becasues thats what you get if you try and see a picture of it. It looks almost clear with beads of water on the outside and a brown sporangia on top.
This division of fungi are usually considered the 'sac fungi.'
Division Ascomycota
Members of this division usually have an extensive mycelium and form asci and ascospores within a protective ascoma.
Division Ascomycota.
What is an ascus (plural: asci)?
A saclike structure within which haploid ascospores are formed following meiosis.
What are sterile hairs called, which are mixed among asci?
paraphyses!
This divison ascomycota fungus holds a row of eight ascospores in each asci.
Peziza (Genus)
This division ascomycota fungus is edible and commonly known as morel.
Morchella (Looks like a brown mushroom with lots of holes)
This division ascomycota fungus produces bottle-shaped ascomata called perithecia.
Sordaria (Looks like a circle of ascomata which extend in all directions)
This genus in the divison ascomycota causes a powdery mildew disease on lilacs.
Microsphaera.
This type of ascoma is almost spherical and produces no special opening.
Cleistothecium (Looks like a small, black seed. When squashed, it breaks open releasing many asci)
What is an ascocarp?
It is the fruiting body that holds millions of asci.
This parasite is referred to as ergot and has caused many problems with grains like rye.
Claviceps purpurea. This produces perithecia which are embedded in the stroma. The disease is called "St. Anthony's Fire"
What are the black structures called when ergot has infected a grain.
Sclerotium.
What is a yeast?
A unicellular fungus which does not produce a mycelium.
This is a common baker's and brewers yeast which uses budding to reproduce asexually.
Saccharomyces (Looks like the worst thing, all it is are small round dots with very little detail)
This is a fission yeast which means it forms new cells by simple cell division rather than by budding.
Schizosaccharomyces (ok this looks like an advil, a little pill which can looked stretched out, as it is going through fission. Think pill!)
This is an ascomycete fungi which has adopted a symbiotic way of life with a photosynthetic partner like algae or cyanobacteria.
Lichen
This growth form of a lichen is thin, crust-like.
crustose (looks pretty plain. Thin, and crust-like.)
This growth form of a lichen is leafy, spreading-lobe forms.
Foliose (looks like a dried up leaf.)
This growth form of a lichen is shrubby or pendulous formed.
Frutiose (looks like "Bring me another shrubbery!")
This lichen is gray and grows on tree bark.
Physcia
These are fungi for which no sexual reproductive stage is known.
Fungi Imperfecti (Conidial Fungi)
Two examples of Fungi imperfecti.
Aspergillus and Penicillium.
This fungi imperfecti causes respiratory disease in humans.
Aspergillus. (Looks like a circle with a beautiful design in the middle. Not very colorful though.)
This fungi imperfecti has distinctive colors during growth and spore development.
Penicillium. (looks pretty bad ass, a circle with loads of colors.)
This division of Fungi are known as the club fungi which produce basidia and basidiospores at some point in their life cycle.
Division Basidiomycota.
This class is known as the rusts. They do not produce basidiomata and have septate or forked basidia called heterobasidia. Most are specialized parasites.
Teliomyctes.
This is an example of a teliomycte. It is a heteroecious rust fungus. One host is the wheat plant, and the other host is a shrub known as the barberry.
Puccinia graminis.
This class is known as smuts.
Ustomycetes
This is known as 'corn smut' and is a serious crop pest.
Ustilago maydis.
Club-shaped basidia
Homobasidia.
This common mushroom is part of the class Basidiomyctes and the series hymenomycetes. Known as an inky cap mushroom.
Coprinus (Looks like a club on the hymenium).
An edible mushroom in the class Basidiomyctes and the series hymenomycetes.
Agaricus.
This series in the class basidiomyctes produce internally undivided basidia but produce their basidiospores in a basidioma.
Gasteromycetes.