Prelecture Worksheet Chapter 31 Fungi Name: ______KEY_____________________

1. Which of the following is a difference between plants and fungi?

a. Plants have diploid and haploid phases, and fungi have only haploid stages.
b. Fungi have cell walls.
c. Fungi are heterotrophic, and plants are autotrophic.
d. Plants produce spores.
e. Fungi are strictly asexual, and plants undergo sexual reproduction

2. Label the following structures on the figure below: hypha, mycelium, reproductive structure

3. What is the difference between septate hyphae and coenocytic hyphae?

Septate hyphae have septa walls that separate nuclei and adjacent cells
Coenocytic hyphae do not have walls that separate nuclei from each other

4. Compare and contrast plasmogamy and karyogamy

Plasmogamy fusion of cytoplasms

Karyogamy fusion of two haploid nuclei

5. Fill in the table:

Phylum Distinguishing Feature
Chytrids Have flagellated zoospores

Meiosis occurs in zygosporangia to produce haploid spores that will

Zygomycetes be released from the sporangium

Form endomycorrhizae that produce arbuscules structures that

Glomeromycetes penetrate plant cells in a symbiotic association

Spores (ascospores) are produced in asci which are clustered

Ascomycetes together in a cuplike structure the ascocarp.

Spores (basidiospores) are produces in basidia

Basidiomycetes
6. The photosynthetic symbiont of a lichen is often a(n)
a. moss.
b. green alga.
c. brown alga.
d. ascomycete.
e. small vascular plant.

7. The closest relatives of fungi are probably

a. animals.
b. vascular plants.
c. mosses.
d. brown algae.
e. slime molds.

8. What are mycorrhizae and how do they benefit plants?

These are fungi that form association with plant roots and increase the surface area in the
soil for the uptake of minerals and water while in return the plant provides Photosynthate.