Laboratory Investigation #14
Fungi
Description of the Lab
This lab focuses on the different types of fungi and their life cycles. It also introduces
Outline of Investigation
1. Classification of Fungi
A. Various types of fungi in both the vegetative and sexual stages, living,
preserved or dried
3. Lichens
Specimens of the 3 types of lichens, prepared microscope slide of lichens
Laboratory Materials and Equipment for Student Use
Materials and Equipment
Per
Student
Per Pair of
Students
Per Lab
Group
Per
Room
Microscopes
1
15
Living or preserved material
mycorrhizae, yeasts, morels, Peziza
mushrooms
the 5
fruticose
type
Prepared Slides
Yeast (Saccharomyces) budding
prepared microscope slide
1
15
Zygomycota (Rhizopus) conjugation,
prepared microscope slide
1
15
prepared microscope slide
Aspergillus conidiophores prepared
microscope slide
1
15
Basidiomycota (Coprinus) mushroom
anatomy cs prepared microscope slide
Lichens thallus, sec. prepared
microscope slide
1
15
Preparation of laboratory Materials and Reagents
If examples of fungi have not been collected and stored in previous years, begin
collecting them. Let them dry or preserve them in alcohol.
1 day prior to the lab
1. Display all the examples of the types of fungi.
gametophyte prepared microscope
slide
Chytridiomycotes (Allymyces)
sporophyte prepared microscope slide
1
15
Mycorrhiza prepared microscope
slide
1
15
Questions for Lab # 14 Fungi
Use the knowledge you acquired in this lab exercise, along with information from your
textbook, to answer the following questions.
1. How do fungi and plants differ?
2. What are decomposers?
Organisms that obtain their food from dead organisms.
3. What are the two types of fungal bodies?
4. What is mycelium?
Mass of hyphae
5. What is septa?
A wall
6. How may phyla are there in the Fungi Kingdom?
5
7. How many spores in a basidium?
4
8. What is coenocytic?
9. What is Lichen?