About how many species of mushroom are edible?
Correct answer A. 200
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What are fungi that obtain their food directly from dead organic matter called?
Correct answer C. Decomposers
Which of the following differs from the rest in the number of cells in its body?
Correct answer D. Yeasts
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Death cap or death angel (Amanita) and the Jack O’Lantern mushroom are examples of what?
Correct answer A. Poisonous mushrooms
Which group represents pathogenic fungi?
Correct answer B. Rusts, smuts and moulds
Roughly how many species of fungi have been described so far?
Correct answer D. 100,000
In a cockroach, where is partly digested food stored?
Correct answer A. Crop
What type of contractions are hunger contractions?
Correct answer A. Peristalsis
What is the short, narrow tube forming the midgut of a cockroach called?
Correct answer A. Stomach
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In Planaria, what are the many small, blind-ending branches of the gut called?
Correct answer B. Intestinal caeca
What is the painful burning sensation in the chest, usually caused by acidic chyme flowing back into the oesophagus, called?
Correct answer C. Pyrosis
What is a parasite that can sometimes live independently of its host called?
Correct answer B. Facultative
Which hormone, produced by the intestinal mucosa, also stimulates liver and pancreatic secretions?
Correct answer C. Secretin
Hydra is an example of which type of feeder?
Correct answer B. Macrophagous
Which part of the small intestine is about 2.4 metres long and makes up about two-fifths of its length?
Correct answer A. Jejunum
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Certain types of whales are also what kind of feeder?
Correct answer B. Filter
Which of the following teeth is missing in herbivores?
Correct answer C. Canines
How many types of muscle surround the anus?
Correct answer D. 2
Which plant has a two-lobed leaf with a midrib between the lobes?
Correct answer C. Dionaea
What is incomplete or imperfect digestion known as?
Correct answer D. Dyspepsia