Review Self_Quiz -- CLASSIFICATION: Fungi:
Below are some multiple choice self-quiz review questions to reinforce chapter terms and important concepts. Some of these questions will appear on the exams.

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1. Organisms in the kingdom Fungi play an important role in food chains as

a. King Lear in Shakespeare's tragedy by that name
b. producers
c. herbivores
d. carnivores
e. decomposers

2. Fungi invaded land

a. 1 billion years ago
b. more than 500 million years ago
c. more than 400 million years ago
d. more than 300 million years ago
e. yesterday

3. Each filament in a mycelium.

a. hypha (pl. hyphae)
b. mycorrhiza (pl. mycorrhizae)
c. basidium (pl. basidia)
d. sporangium (pl. sporangia)
e. none of the above

4. Lichen:

a. predatory fungus
b. athletes foot
c. fungus - algae relationship
d. fungus - cyanobacteria relationship
e. c and d

5. The fungi phylum that produce sexual (haploid) spores in microscopic sac like structures ("spore sacs"):

a. zygomycota
b. ascomycota
c. basidiomycota
d. deuteromycota
e. oomycota

6. The fungi phylum that produce sexual (haploid) spores in microscopic capsule like structures ("spore sacs"):

a. zygomycota
b. ascomycota
c. basidiomycota
d. deuteromycota
e. oomycota

7. The fungi phylum that produce sexual (haploid) spores in microscopic club like structures ("spore sacs"):

a. zygomycota
b. ascomycota
c. basidiomycota
d. deuteromycota
e. oomycota

8. Four of the five phyla listed below have been observed having both a sexual and an asexual life stage. Select the EXCEPTION.

a. zygomycota
b. ascomycota
c. basidiomycota
d. deuteromycota
e. oomycota

9. Black bread mold

a. Saccharomyces
b. Candida
c. Penicillium
d. mushroom
e. Rhizopus

10. Club fungus

a. Saccharomyces
b. Candida
c. Penicillium
d. mushroom
e. Rhizopus

11. Used for bread, beer, and wine production

a. Saccharomyces
b. Candida
c. Penicillium
d. mushroom
e. Rhizopus

12. Infections of the vagina

a. Saccharomyces
b. Candida
c. Penicillium
d. mushroom
e. Rhizopus

13. Used as antibiotic

a. Saccharomyces
b. Candida
c. Penicillium
d. mushroom
e. Rhizopus

14. Put Candida in the correct phylum.

a. Zygomycota
b. Ascomycota
c. Basidiomycota
d. Deuteromycota
e. Mycophycophyta

15. Put Rhizopus in the correct phylum.

a. Zygomycota
b. Ascomycota
c. Basidiomycota
d. Deuteromycota
e. Mycophycophyta

16. Put reindeer moss in the correct phylum.

a. Zygomycota
b. Ascomycota
c. Basidiomycota
d. Deuteromycota
e. Mycophycophyta

17. Put athletes foot in the correct phylum.

a. Zygomycota
b. Ascomycota
c. Basidiomycota
d. Deuteromycota
e. Mycophycophyta

18. Fungi reproduce by

a. seeds
b. spores
c. binary fission
d. male sperms and female eggs
e. They do not reproduce

19. Sexual spores produced by club fungi:

a. ascispores
b. zygospores
c. basidiospores
d. none of the above
e. They do not produce sexual spores

20. The number and diversity of fungi is declining because

a. of pollution
b. we eat too many
c. of natural causes
d. none of the above
e. The number and diversity is NOT declining

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