Key Terms Chap.23

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tough carbohydrate found in many fungi and in the exoskeletons of all arthropods

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chitin

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slender filament that is part of the body of a multicellular fungus

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hypha

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mass of hyphae forming the body of a fungus

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mycelium

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thick-walled sexual structure that charaterizes members of the phylum Zygomycota

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zygosporangium

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stem like structures of molds

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stolons

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hypha that acts as an anchor for a fungus; hair like projection that anchors a non-vascular plant

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rhizoid

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sac that froms on the surface of an ascocarp in which ahploid spores are formed

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ascus

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comon name given to unicellular ascomycetes

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yeast

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asexual reproduction where a small cell forms form a large cell and eithe rpinches itself oof or remains attache to the large cell

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budding

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club-shaped sexual reprodcutive structure that forms the gills of basidiomycetes

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basidium

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mutualistic association between a fungus and palnt's roots, in which the fungus absorbs water and nutrients for the plant and the plant supplies food to the fungus

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Mycorrhiza

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symbiotic association between a fungus and an alga or cyanobacterium

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lichen