PATH 3010 Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Which genus of fungi contains purple mushrooms that are deadly poisonous and can be confused with
blewits? - correct answer cotinarius
What are the structures that hold spores on the gills? - correct answer basidia
What is the safest way to distinguish the edible blewit from poisonous purple mushrooms? - correct
answer make a spore print; poisonous ones are rusty brown
What are basidiospore called when they are forcibly discharged? - correct answer ballistospores
Name of inky cap and what is the importance? - correct answer coprinus
Autodigestion
Blewit mushrooms - correct answer love cold weather
Often found in piles of wood chip, grass clippings, or other dead plant matter
Are known as clitocybe nuda or lepista nuda
Characteristics of wind dispersed spores - correct answer small, dry, lightweight
Abundantly produced
Long lived - dark, thick cell walls
Short lived - thin, clear cell walls
,Among the fungi, bioluminescence is limited to wood rotting species that decompose lignin
T/f? - correct answer true
'Toothpaste spores' dispersal method - correct answer rain splash
It has been hypothesized that some fungi are bioluminescent - correct answer to attract
arthropods at night for increased spore dispersal
To give off a side product for wood degradation
To act as a warning signal to prevent the mushrooms from being eaten
Fungi that use rain splash dispersal - correct answer gummy stem blight
Bird's nest fungi
Which organisms are most closely related to fungi? - correct answer flies and humans (animals)
Where do aero-aquatic fungi live? - correct answer small ponds and vernal pools
Characteristics of fungi - correct answer cells with nucleus
Unique cell wall chemistry
Simple morphology
Reproduce sexually and asexually
What are hyphae? - correct answer tubular cells that make up fungi
, What animal disperses false truffles? - correct answer potoroo
What domain are fungi members of? - correct answer eukarya
What fungus uses self propelled dispersal methods? - correct answer pilobolus - fastest
organism in the world
How are oomycota different from true fungi? - correct answer cell walls of cellulose
Swimming spores with 2 different kinds of flagella
What are zoospores? - correct answer spores found in oomycetes, chytrids, and cryptomycota
that are motile and have flagella
Fungal diseases in cacao plant - correct answer black pod disease
Witch's broom disease
Frosty pod disease
Environmental conditions that favor fungus growth - correct answer somewhat subdued
sunlight
Between 32-90f
Ph --> 6-8
High humidity
Some free water
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Which genus of fungi contains purple mushrooms that are deadly poisonous and can be confused with
blewits? - correct answer cotinarius
What are the structures that hold spores on the gills? - correct answer basidia
What is the safest way to distinguish the edible blewit from poisonous purple mushrooms? - correct
answer make a spore print; poisonous ones are rusty brown
What are basidiospore called when they are forcibly discharged? - correct answer ballistospores
Name of inky cap and what is the importance? - correct answer coprinus
Autodigestion
Blewit mushrooms - correct answer love cold weather
Often found in piles of wood chip, grass clippings, or other dead plant matter
Are known as clitocybe nuda or lepista nuda
Characteristics of wind dispersed spores - correct answer small, dry, lightweight
Abundantly produced
Long lived - dark, thick cell walls
Short lived - thin, clear cell walls
,Among the fungi, bioluminescence is limited to wood rotting species that decompose lignin
T/f? - correct answer true
'Toothpaste spores' dispersal method - correct answer rain splash
It has been hypothesized that some fungi are bioluminescent - correct answer to attract
arthropods at night for increased spore dispersal
To give off a side product for wood degradation
To act as a warning signal to prevent the mushrooms from being eaten
Fungi that use rain splash dispersal - correct answer gummy stem blight
Bird's nest fungi
Which organisms are most closely related to fungi? - correct answer flies and humans (animals)
Where do aero-aquatic fungi live? - correct answer small ponds and vernal pools
Characteristics of fungi - correct answer cells with nucleus
Unique cell wall chemistry
Simple morphology
Reproduce sexually and asexually
What are hyphae? - correct answer tubular cells that make up fungi
, What animal disperses false truffles? - correct answer potoroo
What domain are fungi members of? - correct answer eukarya
What fungus uses self propelled dispersal methods? - correct answer pilobolus - fastest
organism in the world
How are oomycota different from true fungi? - correct answer cell walls of cellulose
Swimming spores with 2 different kinds of flagella
What are zoospores? - correct answer spores found in oomycetes, chytrids, and cryptomycota
that are motile and have flagella
Fungal diseases in cacao plant - correct answer black pod disease
Witch's broom disease
Frosty pod disease
Environmental conditions that favor fungus growth - correct answer somewhat subdued
sunlight
Between 32-90f
Ph --> 6-8
High humidity
Some free water
