A Quiz to Test Your Knowledge On Fungi & Mushrooms

Take this quiz to find out how much you know about fungi and their fruit, mushrooms. Commonly believed to be a plant, mushrooms are in fact the fruits of fungi, and thus do not photosynthesize and therefore have no chlorophyll. Can you answer questions about these unusual residents in your garden? Answer the following multiple choice questions and then see your score. Better yet, stump your family and friends by asking them to take this quiz.

1. Fungi belong to which of the following kingdoms?

Plant
Fungi
Mushrooms
Animal

2. What is the scientific name for a fungi cell?

Erythrocyte
Prokaryote
Eukaryote
Osteocyte

3. How are fungi different from plants?

Fungi have cell walls made from chitin rather than cellulose
Fungi do NOT use photosynthesis to make food
All of the above
None of the above

4. How do fungi reproduce?

Seeds
Fruits
Pollen
Spores

5. How do fungi eat?

By decomposing matter or eating off their hosts
By photosynthesis
All of the above
None of the above

6. Which type of fungi is formed by filaments called hyphae?

7. What scientific group of fungi do mushrooms belong to?

8. What type of fungi is used to help make bread rise?

9. How are fungi useful to humans?

Some fungi can be eaten such as mushrooms and truffles
Some fungi help in fighting disease
They break down organic matter so it can be reused by the nutrient cycles
Some fungi can be used to make bread rise
All of the above

10. Some mushrooms are good to eat but some are poisonous.

True
False

11. The study of fungi is called bryology

True
False

12. The mutualistic relationship shown in mycorrhizae is between fungi and plants.

True
False

13. What are fungi called when they live on dead or decaying matter?

Parasite
Saprophyte
Mutualist
Autotroph

14. What are fungi called when they live with another living thing and they benefit each other?

Parasite
Saprophyte
Mutualist
Autotroph

15. What are hyphae?

Part of fungi which is the main vegetative filament tissue
Part of the fungi used for reproduction
Part of the fungi used for movement
Part of a fungi where spores are made

16. Symbiosis is when ___________________.

When two plants grow together
When fungus grows into many other fungi
When two organisms form a long term relationship with one another
The process in which fungi make their food