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| – Digestion that takes place outside of the cell |
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| Mycelium (plural is mycelia) |
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| – The part of the fungus responsible for extracellular digestion and absorption of the digested food |
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| – A filament of fungal cells |
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| A hypha that is not imbedded in the material upon which the fungus grows |
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| – Specialized aerial hypha that produces spores |
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| – An aerial hypha that asexually reproduces to make more filaments |
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| – A hypha of a parasitic fungus that enters the host's cells, absorbing nutrition directly from the cytoplasm |
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| – A chemical that provides both toughness and flexibility |
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| a thin covering of tissue |
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| an anaerobic breakdown of sugars into smaller molecules |
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| a zygote surrounded by a hard, protective covering |
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| the result of sexual reproduction when each parent contributes half of the DNA necessary for the offspring. |
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| a chemical secreted by a living organism that kills or reduces the reproduction rates of other organisms. |
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| form sexual spores on club-like basidia - mushroom |
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| form sexual spores in sac-like asci - yeast |
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| form sexual spores where hyphae fuse |
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| form spores with flagella |
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| fungi with no known method of sexual reproduction |
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| fungi that look like protozoa when they feed, look like fungus when they reproduce- slime mold |
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| mutualism between fungus and algae where algae provides food and fungus supports and protects algae |
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| mutualism between fungus' mycelium and a plant's root system. Mycelium takes nutrients from a plants roots and provides minerals from the soil. |
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| specialized spore produced by lichen containing spores of both fungus and algae. |
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| fungus for the medicine penicillin, called an antibiotic |
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