Auckland University of Technology – Micro501

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Sample practice questions

1. A survey isolates three fungi. F1 grows in soil where it digests decayed organic matter outside its hyphae before absorbing the products. F2 feeds directly on the tissue of a living plant. F3 lives only inside an ant colony: ants cut and supply leaf material to it, it produces nutrient-rich hyphal swellings that the ants eat, and a founding queen…
2. In a mating culture, the protoplasm of two parent cells has merged, but the two nuclei are still separate and no reduction in chromosome number has occurred. Which statement is correct?
3. A student writes the following account of fungal reproduction: "Sexual reproduction in fungi begins when two diploid gametes fuse — this is plasmogamy. Next the cell becomes haploid by meiosis, and only then do the two nuclei fuse in karyogamy. Because the nuclear membrane has to break down for the nuclei to combine, the nuclear envelope disappears during this process.…

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