BIOL 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 32: Halloween, Blastocladiomycota, Ascus
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Arbuscular mycorrhizae - a type of mycorrhizae that is with the fungus phylum glomeromycota. This fungus does not produce any above ground structures. These are structures at the ends of hyphae called *conidiophores,* that allow for allow for rapid colonization. Dikaryotic cells - a fungi cell that has 2 nuclei. This is produces as a result of plasmogamy. *homokaryotic* - nuclei are genetically similar to one another. Ectomycorrhizae - a type of mycorrhizae between forest trees and fungus phylum basidiomycetes (mostly). In this relationship the fungus does not live inside the roots but instead around them. Endophytic fungi - fungi that live within a plant. Can sometimes cause hard, can sometimes be neutral, and can sometimes help protect the plant. Human uses of fungi - antiobiotics, anti-virals (flu), pesticides, world hunger, making dairy products, making bread, making alcohol, anti-cancer, anti-sanity (psychedelic shrooms) Hyphae - the many small underground threads that make a fungus.