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Biodiversity Unit 2 Exam Study
Questions and Answers 2026
What are the four phylums in Kingdom Fungi? -Correct Answer ✔Phylum
Zygomycota, Phylum Ascomycota, Phylum Basidiomycota, and Phylum
Duteromycota
What is an example(s) of a fungus from Phylum Zygomycota? -Correct Answer
✔Black Bread Mold
What kind of hyphae make up the mycelium in Phylum Zygomycota? -Correct
Answer ✔coenocytic (no partition between cell walls)
How are Fungi distinguished? -Correct Answer ✔how they reproduce sexually
What does a fruiting body do? -Correct Answer ✔releases spores into the air
What is the fruiting body called in Phylum Ascomycota? -Correct Answer ✔an
ascocarp
what type of hyphae does Phylum Ascomycota have? -Correct Answer ✔Septate
What are some examples of fungi from Phylum Ascomycota? -Correct Answer
✔peziza, rye ergot, and penicillin
What are the three meiotic types -Correct Answer ✔zygotic, gametic, and sporic
What is Syngamy? -Correct Answer ✔fertilization
What is Plasmogamy? -Correct Answer ✔the fusion of two cytoplasm from two
different cell types
What type of hyphae does Phylum Basidiomycota have? -Correct Answer
✔Septate
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What is the fruiting body of Phylum Basidiomycota? -Correct Answer
✔Basidiocarp
How do phylum basidiomycota reproduce? -Correct Answer ✔sexually
What are some examples of Phylum Basidiomycota? -Correct Answer
✔Mushrooms, Toadstools, and Puffballs
Why is Phylum Deuteromycota called the "Imperfect Fungi"? -Correct Answer
✔their sexual reproduction is not observed
What re some examples of Phylum Deuteromycota? -Correct Answer ✔Mold,
Ringworm, and predatory fungi
What are predatory Fungi? -Correct Answer ✔they catch worms with modified
hyphae, that form loops, and eat them
What are the two types of fungal symbiosis? -Correct Answer ✔Mycorrhizae and
Lichens
What is the symbiosis between plant roots and fungi called? -Correct Answer
✔Mycorrhizae
What are the three types of Lichen? -Correct Answer ✔crustose, foliose, and
fruticose
For Lichen who is the mutualistic relationship between? -Correct Answer ✔fungi
and either algae or cyanobacteria
What are the five groups in Kingdom Plantae? -Correct Answer ✔Nonvascular
plants, seedless vascular plants, seeded plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms
Brooks Biodiversity
Biodiversity Unit 2 Exam Study
Questions and Answers 2026
What are the four phylums in Kingdom Fungi? -Correct Answer ✔Phylum
Zygomycota, Phylum Ascomycota, Phylum Basidiomycota, and Phylum
Duteromycota
What is an example(s) of a fungus from Phylum Zygomycota? -Correct Answer
✔Black Bread Mold
What kind of hyphae make up the mycelium in Phylum Zygomycota? -Correct
Answer ✔coenocytic (no partition between cell walls)
How are Fungi distinguished? -Correct Answer ✔how they reproduce sexually
What does a fruiting body do? -Correct Answer ✔releases spores into the air
What is the fruiting body called in Phylum Ascomycota? -Correct Answer ✔an
ascocarp
what type of hyphae does Phylum Ascomycota have? -Correct Answer ✔Septate
What are some examples of fungi from Phylum Ascomycota? -Correct Answer
✔peziza, rye ergot, and penicillin
What are the three meiotic types -Correct Answer ✔zygotic, gametic, and sporic
What is Syngamy? -Correct Answer ✔fertilization
What is Plasmogamy? -Correct Answer ✔the fusion of two cytoplasm from two
different cell types
What type of hyphae does Phylum Basidiomycota have? -Correct Answer
✔Septate
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What is the fruiting body of Phylum Basidiomycota? -Correct Answer
✔Basidiocarp
How do phylum basidiomycota reproduce? -Correct Answer ✔sexually
What are some examples of Phylum Basidiomycota? -Correct Answer
✔Mushrooms, Toadstools, and Puffballs
Why is Phylum Deuteromycota called the "Imperfect Fungi"? -Correct Answer
✔their sexual reproduction is not observed
What re some examples of Phylum Deuteromycota? -Correct Answer ✔Mold,
Ringworm, and predatory fungi
What are predatory Fungi? -Correct Answer ✔they catch worms with modified
hyphae, that form loops, and eat them
What are the two types of fungal symbiosis? -Correct Answer ✔Mycorrhizae and
Lichens
What is the symbiosis between plant roots and fungi called? -Correct Answer
✔Mycorrhizae
What are the three types of Lichen? -Correct Answer ✔crustose, foliose, and
fruticose
For Lichen who is the mutualistic relationship between? -Correct Answer ✔fungi
and either algae or cyanobacteria
What are the five groups in Kingdom Plantae? -Correct Answer ✔Nonvascular
plants, seedless vascular plants, seeded plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms
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