Mycology MCQs (Quiz 3) Posted on June 16, 2026Author agropublishers 0 1. __________________ is the primary storage carbohydrate in fungi Starch Glycogen Sucrose Cellulose 2. The antibiotic streptomycin was discovered by _______ Selman Waksman Edward Jenner Louis Pasteur Paul Ehrlich 3. Members of the phylum ________________ are commonly known as club fungi Basidiomycota Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Ascomycota 4. Fungi reproduce primarily by _______ Flowers Seeds Spores Fruits 5. A mass of interwoven hyphae is called _______ Ascus Mycelium Basidium Sporangium 6. Most of the lichen-forming fungi belong to phylum __________________ Basidiomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Chytridiomycota 7. Fungi play a major ecological role as _______ Secondary producers Nitrogen fixers Decomposers Primary producers 8. ______________ is the group of fungi commonly known as sac fungi Ascomycota Deuteromycota Zygomycota Basidiomycota 9. _____________________ is a parasitic fungus that causes ergot of rye, infecting flowers of rye and other cereal grains Rhizopus stolonifer Ustilago maydis Puccinia graminis Claviceps purpurea 10. The first antibiotic obtained from a fungus was _______ Chloramphenicol Penicillin Tetracycline Erythromycin Loading … Question 1 of 10
