Mushrooms: useful, tasty and surprising
- Why can some mildews that grow on dough, cereals, maize and barley be poisonous?
- It was deemed convenient to class fungi in the new fungal kingdom so as to separate them from plants.
- What are the reasons behind this decision?
- Talk about the discovery of penicillin.
- The body of the fungus or mycelium can be found in different forms; why?
- What are “rhizoids”?
- What are “haustoria”?
- Describe the structure of a lichen.
- Explain the difference between symbionts and parasitic fungi.
- What does “mycosis” mean?
- Parasitic fungi infect both the human organism and plants. Make some examples.
- What happens during the rising process?
- Why are some fungi important in cheese-making processes?
- Are fungi economically important for the food and pharmaceutical industries only? Why?
- What kind of environmental alterations can adversely affect the growth of fungi?
- Describe the lamellae of a basidiomycete.
- What are spores?
- The fungal kingdom includes organisms that can be very different from each other. Make some examples.
- Which fungi are unicellular?
- How is the association between one fungus and the roots of a plant called?
- Why does this relation form?
- Do you know any other case of symbiosis? Which ones?
