[PLNTPTH 2000] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (19 pages long!)

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Plant Pathology
• Course: PLNTPTH 2000
• Professor: Thomas Mitchell

Document Summary

How fungi are named, what mycology means, structure of the cell. Edible (will not kill you), but some people cannot. Easy to identify (and found all over ohio and tolerate. It is a tree pathogen--always found around the base of the tree. nationally)--flat cap, rounded, tan but yellowish- orange as well, many animals eat them so they may look half-eaten sometimes. Kills trees, forms shoestrings (rhomorphs) that go up the tree--these degrade and. Possibly to deter animals, attract organisms for food. To be honest, we have no idea why they glow. We know the chemicals that cause the glow, but we do not know why. It is possible that the chemical that is used to glow is used for other things and just happens to glow. Underground it is all is 3. 5 miles wide. connected, like a subway system. Using genetics (which comes to mating type and a few other factors), it is proven that it is one organism.