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What is the name for a symbiotic association between a fungus and an alga?
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Lichen
Which fungus is used to make the blue cheese Roquefort?
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Penicillium roqueforti
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What genus of fungi causes Dutch elm disease?
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Ophiostoma
Truffles are the fruiting bodies of fungi from which phylum?
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Ascomycota
Which fungus is used to make the blue cheese Roquefort?
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Penicillium roqueforti
What is the study of fungi called?
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Mycology
What is the most deadly mushroom to humans?
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Amanita phalloides
Which type of fungus is used in baking and brewing?
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae
What common edible mushroom is also known as the portobello?
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Agaricus bisporus
Which fungus is used to produce the antibiotic penicillin?
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Penicillium chrysogenum
What is the largest living fungus on Earth by area?
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Armillaria ostoyae
What is the smallest free-living bacterium, with a genome of about 580,000 base pairs?
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Mycoplasma genitalium