Bread Mold
1) What part of the fungus is seen on the surface of the bread?
2) What phylum are bread molds in?
Bread Mold
3) Observe the fungi under the microscope and sketch a drawing.
Rx
4) What famous medicine comes from fungus?
5) What phylum does this medicinal fungus belong in?
Dissected Mushroom
6) The mushroom is what part of the entire fungus?
7) What part of the fruiting body are the spores produced in?
Portabella Mushroom
8) Is this an autotroph or a heterotroph?
Shiitake Mushroom
9) What phylum does this fungus belong to?
Spore Print
10) What is the purpose of spores?
Bakers Yeast
11) What phylum do yeast belong in?
Shelf fungus
These fruiting bodies where found on the sides of living trees.
12) What is the function of the fruiting body?
13) From where did the fruiting body get the resources for its growth?
Personal Fungus
Each year, folks spend lots of money to get rid of personal fungus.
14) What phylum of fungus does this spray try to kill?
15) From where do these fungi get the energy and material resources
for growth?
Variety of Fungus
16) What is the most important ecological role of fungi?
Kool- Aid
17) What is the primary ingredient in this drink?
Soda
18) What fungal product goes into soda & candy?
Check the ingredients.
Vinegar
Yeast are used in fermenting sugars in one stage of vinegar production.
Cocoa
Cocoa beans are fermented using a fungus!
Soy Sauce
Soy sauce is made by fermenting soy beans with a certain species of
fungus, a bacterium and lots of salt.
Bread
19) What fungi are used in making bread?
20) What is their primary function in the bread making process?
Tea
The difference between green tea and black tea is a fermentation
process involving fungus.
Blue Cheese
Blue cheese is made with a species of fungus called Penicillium
roquefortii. To be called “Roquefort cheese” the blue cheese must have
been produced in a specific cave in France.
The fungus is the blue-green chunks. It is added to the cheese for
flavor.
21) What phylum does this fungus belong to?
22) List 6 food products that fungus helps to
make.
Lichens
Lichens represent a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and algae.
23) What does the algae provide for the fungus?
24) What does the fungus provide for the algae?
25) What type of lichen is this?
26) What type of lichen is this?
27) What type of lichen is this?
Stinkhorns
28) Why do stinkhorns smell like rotten meat?
29)
What is the common name of this fungus?
30)
What does it release into the air?
Mr. Flamand & Richard Blaize
31)
32)
What expensive fungus is this?
What phylum is it in?
33)
What is this a picture of?
34)
What part of the fungi is showing above ground?
Ant with Fungus
35)
What is the scientific name of this fungus?
Oyster Mushrooms
36)
Why do you think these are called oyster mushrooms?
Fruit Fungus
37)
What phylum does this belong in?
Cheese fungus
38)
What phylum does this belong in?