Problema 17 · Biología URV Test Practice: Eukaryotes and Fungi

a. What are the sexual spores generated within the asci of Ascomycota called?

Solución: b) Ascospores

b. Which group of fungi forms an underground button-shaped mycelial primordium that expands into a sporocarp?

Solución: b) Basidiomycota

c. Which fungal division supplies the majority of commercially cultivated edible mushrooms (e.g., Agaricus bisporus)?

Solución: b) Basidiomycota

d. Which fungal phylum contains notoriously lethal toxic mushrooms such as Amanita phalloides (death cap)?

Solución: c) Basidiomycota

e. Which fungal phylum includes specialized keratinophilic species capable of decomposing hair, feathers, and skin?

Solución: c) Chytridiomycota

f. To which phylum do cereal crop rusts (e.g., Puccinia graminis) belong?

Solución: b) Basidiomycota

g. Which fungi develop sexual spores enclosed inside an elongated, sac-like microscopic container?

Solución: d) Ascomycota

h. Which group includes primitive zoosporic saprobes commonly inhabiting wet soils and detritus?

Solución: a) Chytridiomycota

i. What physical developmental process marks basidiocarp expansion in typical agaric mushrooms?

Solución: b) Rapid water uptake and cellular expansion of the pre-formed button mycelium

j. Under which fungal phylum is the potato wart pathogen Synchytrium endobioticum classified?

Solución: d) Chytridiomycota