L7-9 quiz

• fungi are useful biological cell factories
• fungi _ other fungi

  parasitize
• fungi antagonize other fungi
• fungi are the primary cause of disease in _

  plants
• necrotrophic pathogenic fungi induce _

  host cell death
• Aspergillosis results from the infection of a necrotrophic pathogenic fungus
• commercially produced using fungi:

  • pectinases
  • organic acids
  • antibiotics
• fungal enzymes important in the degradation of plant cell walls:

  • pectinases
  • ligninases
  • cellulases
• zygomycetes have aseptate _

  hyphae
• deuteromycetes produce only asexual _


  spores
• ascomycetes produce asexual _

  spores
• candida albicans is:

  • dimorphic yeast
  • human pathogen
  • causes systemic infection in immunocompromised patients
• biological control agent potential fungi:

  • Verticillium lecanii
  • Trichoderma spp.
• fungi that infect humans/are human pathogens:

  • Aspergillus fumigatus
  • Trichophyta spp.
  • Coccidioides immitis