What are the characteristics of Actinomycetales? How do you recognize an actinomycete colony? How do you recognize Actinomycetales on a microscope slide?

Q: What is the mode of nutrition of kingdom fungi?

A: Fungi are eukaryotic organism that includes yeasts, molds and mushrooms. They are placed in kingdom…

Q: What is the major feature of the ecology ofglomeromycetes?

A: Glomeromycota is one of the major divisions of the kingdom Fungi. These are characterized by the…

Q: Why might antibiotic production be of advantage tostreptomycetes?

A: The genus Streptomycetes belongs to actinomycetes and includes soil bacteria.

Q: What is the function of protonephridia and what Phylums (that we have studied so far) can you find…

A: These cells are also called flame cells as they have a cluster of cilia that looks like a flickering…

Q: What is cyclosporin? How are fungi related to this substance?

A: Antibiotics are substances of microbial origin which are toxic to bacterial cells. These may kill…

Q: Draw the life cycle of a basidiomycete, and indicate theheterokaryotic stage.

A: Basidiomycetes are fungi with often large and conspicuous fruitification. They have two types of…

Q: Which of the following is/are example(s) of deuteromycetes? (a) Alternaria (b) Colletotrichum (c)…

A: Deuteromycetes are called Fungi imperfecti because they have septate mycelia that lack the perfect…

Q: What are the basic characteristics of the Kingdom Fungi in terms of general types of cells and…

A: The fungi are a class of creatures that includes mushrooms, molds, and microscopic yeast. These…

Q: What means of asexual reproduction do the fungi exhibit?

A: Step 1 Fungi are simple nonvascular, achlorophyllous, heterotrophic, spore-bearing eukaryotes with a…

Q: Describe the general characters of Basidiomycetes.

A: Basidiomycetes together with the Ascomycetes form Dikarya subkingdom, within the kingdom Fungi.

Q: http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/Resources/Botany/Fungi/Ascomycota/Peziza/   How do find out which one…

A: Peziza represents a genus of saprophytic fungi that are characterized by their cup shape structures.…

Q: How does the zygospore fit into the zygomycete life cycle?

A: Sexual reproduction is the type of reproduction, where two different individuals of different sex…

Q: What are Streptomyces coelicolor?

A: Streptomyces coelicolor: It is a soil dwelling Gram positive bacterium that belongs to the genus…

Q: oes lichen affect the environment?

A: The lichen mutualism is believed to be a symbiosis, since each the fungi and also the photosynthetic…

Q: How does an ascus come to contain eight ascospores?

A: An ascus is a sac-like structure formed during the reproductive phase of the life cycle of the…

Q: Describe the sexual life cycle of basidiomycetes.

A: BASIC INFORMATION FUNGI  It consist of unicellular organisms like yeast to complex edible…

Q: What are characteristics of zooflagellates?

A: Zooflagellates are non-photosynthetic flagellates. They are known to assimilate organic material by…

Q: e in common with choanoflagellata ?

A: Animals are also known as  Metazoa, they are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that are responsible…

Q: Dikaryon formation is the characteristic feature of (a) ascomycetes and basidiomycetes. (b)…

A: There are four categories of kingdom fungi- ascomycetes, Phycomycetes group, basidiomycetes, and…

Q: What is the structure of basidiomycetes?

A: Basidomycetes fall under the family of fungi. E.g.Agaricus and ustilago, etc.

Q: How is Ulva not a part of the group of Spirogyra, Zygnema, Closterium and Chara? Based on their…

A: Ulva or sea lettuce is a green algae and it grow in freshwater, brackish water and these mainly grow…

Q: In what ways do oomycetes differ from and resemble fungi?

A: Fungi is a kingdom of eukaryotic organisms that include microbes like yeast and molds and duffer…

Q: What are the ectomycorrhizae?

A: Fungi are saprophytes and ingestive in their mode of nutrition. They cannot synthesise their own…

Q: what are the similarities between bacteroid and typical rhizobium?

A: Microbiology is the study of microorganisms that are invisible to the naked eye. The microorganisms…

Q: Cryptosporidium is commonly found in surface water and causes gastroenteritis if consumed. What is…

A: Parasites are creatures that live in or on a host and rely on it for food, housing, and…

Q: Can you name one well-known antibiotic produced by an actinomycete and the organism that produces…

A: Antibiotics are the antimicrobial agents produced by the microorganisms that kill or inhibit the…

Q: What is the taxonomic classification of Plasmodiophoromycota?

A: Plasmodiophoromycota is an endo-parasite which is bi -trophic in nature . Plasmodiophoromycota…

Q: How do paramecium reproduce.

A: Paramecium is a microscopic, single celled free living aquatic protozoans. They are present in both…

Q: What is the advantage for a basidiomycete to produce a showy and fleshy fruiting body?

A: Basidiomycetes are fungus that generate basidiospores, which are sexual spores. The spores are…

Q: What is thalloid body of a slime mould (Myxomycetes) is known as?

A: The members of myxomycetes are called slime molds because they contain and secrete slime. They are…

Q: What is the advantage for a basidiomycete to produce a showy and fleshy fruiting body?

A: Basidiomycetes are the fungi that produce sexual spores known as basidiospores. The spores are…

Q: While observing a fungus under a microscope,you notice a stalk-like appendage with a loosely packed…

A: Asexual spore occurs at the tip of aerial hyphae of a filamentous fungus. There are two types of…

Q: what is actinomycetes and its significance

A: Actinomyces was discovered by Bollinger as a mold-like organism in the lumpy jaw of cattle. It…

Q: what is the cellular morphology and arrangement of bacillus subtilis and bacillus megaterium?

A: Biochemical tests coupled with results of Gram stain which reveals the organisms Gram reaction and…