1. This gives new meaning to the old saying, “There’s a fungus among us!”
Lab Exercise 11:
Fungi
This gives new meaning to the old saying, “There’s a fungus among us!”

2. Station 1. Rhizopus stolonifer macroscopic

3. Rhizopus spoiled fruit
(Station 1 continued)

4. Station 2. Rhizopus asexual and sexual spores Asexual
sporangio
zygosporangium
Sexual
(containing zygospores)
Opposite mating types join hyphae

5. Station 3. Peziza (common cup fungus)

6. Station 4. Morchella, the morel

7. Station 5. Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
Method of reproduction?
Asexual or sexual?
Conditions?
b. Fermentation by-product used here?
c. Fermentation by-product used here?
c. ethyl alcohol
b. CO2 gas
Answers: a. budding, asexual, good conditions

8. Station 6. Claviceps purpurea
(ergot of rye disease)

9. Station 7. Mushrooms a. Name of this part? c. structure?
b. Structures? Spores produced? Asexual or sexual?
d. Name of this part?
Answers: a. pileus b. lamellae with sexual basidiospores c. annulus d. stipe

10. Station 8. Puffballs

11. Station 9. Bracket fungi

12. Station 10. Corn Smut

13. Station 11. Tinea (ringworm)

14. Candida albicans (pathogenic yeast) can cause oral thrush
Station 12: Candida albicans

15. Station 13. Penicillium macroscopic

16. Asexual Spores
1. Rhizopus sporangia and sporangiospores

17. Asexual Spores
2. ‘’Budding yeast’ blastospores

18. Asexual Spores
3. Corn Smut chlamydospores

19. Asexual Spores
4. Geotrichium candida arthrospores

20. Asexual Spores
5. Penicillium conidiospores

21. Sexual Spores
1. Rhizopus conjugation
immature
mature
zygosporangia

22. Sexual Spores
2. Peziza ascospores 8

23. Sexual Spores
3. Schizosaccharomyces ascospores

24. Sexual Spores
4. Coprinus mushroom basidiospores

25. Wet Mount: Live Yeast cells budding

26. Fungal Microcultures

27. Penicillium

28. Rhizopus nigricans