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  • Left to right: mushroom cluster with bell domes. Lobe-shared yellowish fungus. Micrograph of long, slender chain of spores.

    Many species of fungus produce the familiar mushroom (a) which is a reproductive structure. This (b) coral fungus displays brightly colored fruiting bodies. This electron micrograph shows (c) the spore-bearing structures of Aspergillus, a type of toxic fungus found mostly in soil and plants. (credit “mushroom”: modification of work by Chris Wee; credit “coral fungus”: modification of work by Cory Zanker; credit “Aspergillus”: modification of work by Janice Haney Carr, Robert Simmons, CDC; scale-bar data from Matt Russell)


    Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
    1. List the unifying characteristics of eukaryotes
    2. Explain endosymbiotic theory
    3. Identify the structures, including locomotion, of the different types of protists
    4. Describe important pathogenic species of protists
    5. List the characteristics of fungi
    6. Describe the mode of nutrition of fungi
    7. Describe the role of fungi in the ecosystem and in the food and beverage preparation
    8. Describe the different types of fungal infections in humans
    Assignments:
    1. Read Chapter 5
    2. Read the Power point on Protist
    3. Read Chapter 6
    4. Read the Power point on Fungi

    Complete all of the questions and activities in the chapters

    Lab Objectives Protist Lab:

    1. Describe the general characteristics of the protists
    2. Discuss why protists present a unique problem of taxonomists
    3. Compare and contrast traditional and modern protist classification
    4. Describe the traditional organization of the plant-like protists
    5. Describe the basic biology of the plantlike protists
    6. Describe the traditional organization of the fungus-like protinst
    7. Describe the basic biology of the fungus-like protists
    8. Descrbie the traditional organization of the animallike protists

    Lab Objectives Fungi Lab:
    1. Explain the ecological role and characteristics of kingdom Fungi
    2. Describe and identify the basic anatomical features of kindom Fungi
    3. Discuss the taxonomical organization of kingdom Fungi
    4. Describe the characteristics of and biolgy of phyla Chrytridiomycota, Aygomycota, Glomeromycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota
    5. Trace the life cycle of Rhizopus stolonifer, a typical ascomycete, and Agaricus bisprous, a typical basidiomycele
    6. Label the parts of a typical mushrooom
    7. Describe the biology of lichens and their three basic forms

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