1. The primary storage carbohydrate for both fungi and animals is glycogen.
2. The unique characteristic is that fungal cells retain their nuclear envelope when they divide. Answers will vary on other distinguishing fungal characteristics.
3. Fungi do not photosynthesize and fungal cell walls contain chitin, which plant cells lack. Other answers are possible.
4. Hypha = fungal thread
Mycelium = assemblage of hyphae
Thallus = visible part of the fungus
5. Yeast is a unicellular fungal form.
6. Possible answer: Fungal mode of nutrition is different from humans because fungi release digestive enzymes into the environment and absorb food. Mode is similar because neither one can make nutritional substrates.
7. Moneran and fungal cell walls are composed of different substances.
8. See chapter summary point # 5 on pages 488-489.
9. One possible answer: Functioning as mycorrhizae.
10. Absorption, after external digestion.
11 a. Ergotism -- Claviceps purpurea
b. Valley fever -- Coccidioides immitis
c. Thrush -- Candida albicans
d. Histoplasmosis -- Histoplasma capsulatum
e. Dutch elm disease -- Ophiostoma novo-ulmi
12. Type of infection
TO THINK ABOUT
1. Sexual. If asexual, they would all be the same.
2. All caused by ascomycetes.
3. Answers will vary.
4. Cell wall
5. Answers will vary.
6. Answers will vary. Ask for specific reason why students chose the characteristics they did.
7. Different cell wall components.
8. Systemic and opportunistic
9. Antibiotics can wipe out the organisms that were keeping the fungi in check. The fungi can then take over the open places.
10. Answers will vary.
11. Yeast infection. (Other answers possible.)
12. Very few good anti-fungal medications that don't also harm the host.
13. If the human becomes compromised in such a way that it is difficult to fight off the fungus, or if the bacterial flora are wiped out, the fungus can prosper.
14. Answers will vary.
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