FUNGI - MOLDS AND YEASTS QUIZ

The basidiomycetes include plant parasites that can cause

Dutch elm disease & chestnut blight

rust and smut diseases

candidiasis

ergot disease

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Which spore is on a club and results from the fusion of two nuclei from different strains of the same fungi?

Blastospore

Conidiospore

Ascospore

Basidiospore

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__________ produce motile sexual and asexual spores.

Slime molds

Club fungi

Dimorphic fungi

Water molds

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A mycelium describes

single fungal strand made up of a long chain of cells

interwoven mass of numerous hyphae

saclike structure where fungal spores are produced

None of these

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Ascospores located in asci are found in

plasmodiocarps

sorocarps

conidiocarps

ascocarps

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The bread mold Rhizopus stolonifer belongs to which of the following fungal divisions?

Deuteromycota

Zygomycota

Oomycota

Ascomycota

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The fungus responsible for ergotism belongs to which of the following fungal divisions?

Deuteromycota

Oomycota

Ascomycota

Zygomycota

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Ergotism is responsible for all of the following except

both (a) and (b)

hallucinations

Irish potato famine

gangrene

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Fungi are important in the production of all of the following commercial products except

rubber

cheese

beer

bread

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The amount of peptidoglycan in the cell walls of a mushroom

is lesser than the amount of chitin in the cell walls of a mushroom

is greater than the amount of chitin in the cell walls of a mushroom

None of these

is exactly or approximately equal to the amount of chitin in the cell walls of a mushroom

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