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CHAPTER 23 FUNGI
Section 23.2 The Diversity of Fungi
Order the Steps

The figure below shows the steps in the mushroom life cycle. Write the numbers from the
figure in front of the descriptions of the life-cycle steps below.

1. Mushrooms drop different

types of mating spores.

Cap
Basidiospores
Gills
Basidium

6. Mushrooms grow Stipe

and mature. Basidiospores

2. Spores grow
threadlike
hyphae.

+ Mating type – Mating type

5. Basidia develop
inside the young
mushroom cap.
3.
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Basidia produce Two strains of

spores by meiosis. hyphae join.
Mycelium

Two mating types fuse.

Nuclei remain separate.

New mycelium — each cell

with two nuclei

4. Compact masses of hyphae form buttons.

________ Mushrooms develop.

________ Mushrooms release spores.
________ Meiosis in basidia produces spores.
________ Spores grow threadlike hyphae in the ground.
________ Two strains of hyphae join.
________ Buttons form.

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