General Biology Questions

1.  Which type of nutritional mode requires the obtaining of nutrients from nonliving organic matter?
A. saprobic
B. parasitic
C. mutualistic
D. autotrophic

2.  Which type of nutritional mode requires the obtaining of nutrients from living hosts?
A. saprobic
B. parasitic
C. mutualistic
D. autotrophic

3.  Fungi that cannot be classified into one of the 3 major groups are placed where?
A. Molds
B. the imperfect fungi
C. Mildews
D. Water dependent molds

4.  What is a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an algae called?
A. Fungus
B. Mycorhizzae
C. Lichen
D.  Saprobe

5.  In a lichen, what does the algae provide for the fungus?
A. Food
B. Water
C. Air
D. Chlorophyll

6.  What type of fungus is involved in an intimate relationship with the roots of certain
plants?
A.Fungus
B. Lichen
C.Autotroph
D. mycorrhiza

7. What term describes the following?  sexual spores of sac fungi.
A. basidiospores
B. zygospores
C. actinospores
D. ascospores

8. What term describes the following? Club shaped, spore bearing structures on the gills of mushrooms.
a. Basidia
B. Conidia
C. Spirilla
D. Flipilla

9. What term describes the following?  fungal filaments with chitin reinforced cell walls; components of a mycelium.
A. Cnidars
B. Septa
C. Hyphae
D. Mold

10. What term describes the following?  the above ground part of a common basidiomycete.
A. spore
B. mycelium
C. Hyphae
D. mushroom

11. What term describes the following?  A symbiotic relationship that benefits both participants.
A.  parasitism
B. mutualism
C. commensalism
D. autotropism

12. What term describes the following?  A mesh of tiny branching filaments; the food absorbing portion of most fungi.
A. spore
B. mycelium
C. Hyphae
D. mushroom

13. What term describes the following?  A relationship where one species lives near or on another species for at least part of its life cycle.
A. parasitism
B. mutualism
C. commensalism
D. symbiosis