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_____saprobes
_____parasites
_____mycelium
_____fungi
_____hypha
_____ zygomycetes, sac fungus, club fungi
_____spores
_____extracellular digestion and absorption

A. Nonmotile reproductive cells and multicelled structures, often walled; germinate following dispersal from the parent body.
B. Represent major lineages of fungal evolution.
C. A mesh of branching fungal filaments that grows over and into organic matter, secretes digestive enzymes, and functions in food absorption.
D. Fungi that obtain nutrients from non-living organic matter and cause its decay.
E. Fungi that extract nutrients from tissues of a living host.
F. External secretion of enzymes to break down organic compounds prior to cell absorption of nutrients.
G. Each filament in a mycelium; consists of cells of interconnecting cytoplasm and chitin-reinforced walls.
H. A richly diverse group of heterotrophs that are decomposers.

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saprobes - D. Fungi that obtain nutrients from non-living organic matter and cause its decay.

parasites - E. Fungi that extract nutrients from tissues of a living host. (NB: obviously these questions are about fungi specifically, but the term "parasite" can refer to any ...

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