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11 Cards in this Set
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Chitin
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"hard-shell", a polysaccharide
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Chytridiomycota
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The earliest diverging fungal group; possess flagellated gametes; either parasitic or saprobic; some are unicellular; allomyces displays alternation of generations
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Zygomycota
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Reproduce sexually by fission of 2 gametangia; have coenocytic hyphae; does not form fleshy fruiting structure; sporangiophores; 900 species described; Example: Rhizopus stolonifer
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Ascomycota
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Production of sacs called asci which contain sexually produced ascospores; penicillin
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Hemiascomycetes
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Bakers or Brewer's yeast, S. cerevisiae (ethanol and carbon)
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Euascomycetes
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Molds, Neurospora, Beadle and Tatum, parasites on flowering plants, (Chestnut blight and Dutch elm disease), cup fungi, truffles, morels
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Basidiomycota
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Puffballs, mushrooms, giant bracket fungi (trees), Armillariella in Michigan (37 acres)
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Basidium
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A swollen cell at the tip of the hypha (site of nuclear fission and meiosis)
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Deuteromycetes
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Imperfect fungi
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Mycorrhizae
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Essential to many plants; the evolution was the single most important step leading to the colonization of the terrestrial environment by living things
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Rhizoids
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Certain modified hyphae; anchor chytrids and some other fungi to their substratum (the dead organism or other matter upon which they feed)
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