FUNGI

are prokaryotic cells

secrete extracellular enzymes to breakdown nutrients

have cell walls of peptidoglycan

are photosynthetic

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The organism that starts out as amoeboid, phagocytic cells and converts to a sluglike pseudoplasmodium that migrates prior to development of a sorocarp belongs to which division?

Oomycota

Ascomycota

Myxomycota

Chytridiomycota

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Which of the following is not a member of the division Ascomycota?

Claviceps

Aspergillus

Rhizopus

Penicillium

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Fungi that lack partitions (septa) are called

ahyphae

coenocytic

yeast

conidia

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Which of the following structures would not be associated with fungi?

Mitochondria

Spores

Chloroplasts

Cell walls

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Select the statement that does not apply to the kingdom Fungi

The fungi are eukaryotic, multicellular, ingestive heterotrophs

Certain fungi are natural sources of antibiotic substances

The fungal life cycle typically includes a spore stage

Some fungi form beneficial interrelationships with plants

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Slime molds differ from the moldy fungi

Both (a) and (b)

in that the moldy fungi produce amoeboid or flagellated cells and the slime molds do not

None of these

in their mode of nutrition: phagocytosis for the slime molds; absorptive heterotroph for moldy fungi

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The amount of chitin in the cell walls of the Plasmodium

is greater than the water mold mycelium

is lesser than the water mold mycelium

None of these

is equal to the water mold mycelium

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__________ produce basidiospores.

Sac fungi

Dimorphic fungi

Club fungi

Slime molds

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Achlorophyllous means

none of these

unable to use CO2

leading in chlorophyll

lacking chlorophyll

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