Terms for Fungi and Fungal-like Protists

Select the group of fungi in the top row and you will be taken to the page which contains illustrations for that group; please note: not all the terms are illustrated. All the terms are covered in the lectures, lectures with life cycles on fungi.

slime molds : plasmodium, sclerotium, sporangium

Basidiomycetes
Ascomycetes and Deuteromycetes
Oomycetes
Zygomycetes
annulus antheridium antheridium coenocytic hyphae
basidiocarpascocarp diploid columella
basidiosporeascospore eggconjugation
basidiumascus fertilization diploid
conkcrustose lichen fertilization tube haploid
dikaryoticdiploid flagellum hypha
diploidfoliose lichen gametangium karyogamy
gametophytefruticose lichen gametic meiosis lichen
haploidgametophyte haploid meiosis
hymeniumhaploid hyphameiosporangium
hyphahymenium karyogamy meiospore
karyogamyhypha meiosis mitosis
meiosiskaryogamy meiospore mitosporangium
meiosporangiumlichen mitosis mitospore
meiosporemeiosis mitosporangium non-septate hyphae
mitosismeiosporangium mitospore oospore
mitosporangiummeiospore non-septate hyphae rhizoid
mitosporemitosis oogonium sporangiophore
partial veilmitosporangium Oomycetes sporangium
pileusmitospore oospore suspensor
septate hyphaeseptate hyphae syngamy syngamy
sporic meiosissyngamy zygote zoosporangium
sterigmazygote zoospore
stipe Zygomyetes
syngamy zygospore
universal veil zygote
volva zygotic meiosis
zygote