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32. The little bypass loops on the sides of dikaryotic hyphae are
33. A ringlike membrane on the stalk of a mushroom is called a/an
34. The tiny pegs on which basidiospores are produced are
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35. Except for a ring of appendages, earth stars resemble
36. The only known antidote for poisoning from death angel and similar mushrooms is
37. Mushrooms that are reported to have more than twice the nutritional value of common
edible mushrooms are
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38. A fungus closely related to Penicillium and used to make soy sauce (shoyu) is
39. In mushrooms, meiosis takes place in this structure.
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40. In fungi, mitosis takes place in__________
41. Penicillium mold growing on an agar plate inhibited the growth of Staphylococcus
bacteria and led to the concept of
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42. Rusts, smuts, and mushrooms all belong to this group.
43. Which of the following was the first antibiotic isolated from a fungus?
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44. Rhizines are often present in which of the following lichen thallus layers?
45. Lichens
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46. One reason lichens may live for hundreds of years is that
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47. Stinkhorns and puffballs are examples of cup (sac) fungi.
48. In black bread molds, the spores are produced at the tips of upright hyphae.
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49. The horse dung fungus, Pilobolus, and black bread molds have coenocytic hyphae.
50. Penicillin is produced by a bread mold.
51. Nearly all fungi have box like cells in their hyphae.
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52. All fungi reproduce sexually.
53. LSD can be synthesized from a precursor found in ergot of rye.
54. Bird’s-nest fungi resemble tiny birds’ nests.
55. Fruticose lichens mostly resemble small fruits.
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56. Bread molds absorb most of their food in solution.
57. An attempt to control rusts that need two hosts to complete their life cycle involves
eradication of the non-economical alternate host.
58. Many chytrids reproduce only asexually.
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59. Yeasts reproduce primarily by means of spores produced within basidia.
60. Rusts produce their spores along plate like gills.
61. Lichens are classified into groups based on their evolutionary relationships.
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62. Morels and truffles are poisonous mushrooms.
63. Yeasts are multicellular fungi that are important in the brewing and baking industries.
64. A large group of plant parasites belong to the Sac Fungi.
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65. The Imperfect Fungi are so-called because they have no known sexual stage of the life
cycle.
66. Lichens feature a symbiosis between a fungus and a red algal species.
67. Each species of lichen has its own species of fungus.