FUNGI - MOLDS AND YEASTS QUIZ

Ergotism is responsible for all of the following except

Irish potato famine

gangrene

hallucinations

both (a) and (b)

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

Which of the following divisions of fungi produce uniflagellated zoospores?

Chytridiomycota

Zygomycota

Ascomycota

Oomycota

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

Which of the following does not represent a human disease caused by fungi?

Cryptococcosis

Jock itch

Ringworm

Malaria

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

Slime molds differ from the moldy fungi

Both (a) and (b)

None of these

in their mode of nutrition: phagocytosis for the slime molds; absorptive heterotroph for moldy fungi

in that the moldy fungi produce amoeboid or flagellated cells and the slime molds do not

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

Fungi are generally not

multicellular

spore-producing

containing cell walls

photosynthetic

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

The fruiting body of a mushroom is called

ascocarps

sorocarps

basidiocarps

plasmodiocarps

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

Which of the following is/are the sexual spore?

Basidiospores

Ascospores

Both (a) and (b)

None of these

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

A mutualistic association made up of a fungus and a cyanobacterium is called

a saprobe

lichen

dimorphic

a gamete

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

Yeast play an important role in the alcohol industry, converting pyruvic acid into carbon dioxide and ethyl alcohol by the process of

respiration

glycolysis

fermentation

Krebs cycle

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

Which of these spores are characteristic of the black bread mold Rhizopus?

Arthrospore and Blastospore

Ascospore and Zygospore

Sporangiospore and Zygospore

Arthrospore and Ascospore

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?