Key Terms Related to Fungi Characteristics, Classifications, and Ecology
This text highlights key terms important for the study of the characteristics of fungi, classifications of fungi, ecology of fungi, fungal parasites and pathogens, and the importance of fungi in human life.
Topics
- arbuscular mycorrhiza
- Arbuscular mycorrhizae
- ascocarp
- Ascomycota
- basidiocarp
- Basidiomycota
- basidium
- Chytridiomycota
- coenocytic hypha
- commensalism
- Deuteromycota
- ectomycorrhiza
- Ectomycorrhizae
- facultative anaerobes
- Glomeromycota
- haustoria
- heterothallic
- homothallic
- hypha
- karyogamy
- lichen
- mold
- mycelium
- mycetismus
- mycology
- mycorrhiza
- mycorrhizae
- mycosis
- mycotoxicosis
- obligate aerobes
- obligate anaerobes
- parasitism
- plasmogamy
- saprobe
- septa
- soredia
- sporangium
- spore
- thallus
- yeast
- Zygomycota
- zygospore