Parasitic fungi possess hyphae that are modified to penetrate and absorb nutrients from host tissue. Such modified hyphae are called _____.

You can buy mycorrhizal fungus to add to soil when you plant trees and other plants. Why would you want to do this?

The cell walls of fungal cells are composed of _____.

Hyphae with two nuclei per cell are called _____.

Evidence that mycorrhizae, the mutualistic relationship between plants and fungi, existed from the beginning of the colonization of land comes from _____.

What is the major feature of glomeromycetes?

While hiking through a forest, you discover a fungus growing on the remains of a decaying tree trunk. You hypothesize that it is a basidiomycete fungus because it resembles a mushroom in shape and size. If your logic is correct, microscopic analysis of the tissue found in the stalk of this fungus will reveal the presence of _____.

Fungi in the phylum Basidiomycota are the most important decomposers of wood because of their ability to break down _____.