Biology 1st Edition by Jerome Krueger, Kendra Hill, Robert Noyd

تمرين 19

Two jelly fungi look very similar but live in different substrates. Dacrymes is found on the wood of dead conifer trees ( Fig. ). Tremella is a parasite on other fungi that live on living hardwood trees. Which of the two jelly fungi produces the following enzymes: (a) enzymes to degrade chitin, (b) enzymes to degrade cellulose, (c) enzymes to degrade proteins in living cytoplasm?
Figure Jelly fungi fruiting bodies. Jelly fungi are known for the jelly-like texture of their fruiting bodies. Sexual spores of these three species of jelly fungi are produced on their bright yellow surfaces (a) Dacrymyces palmatus (b) Calocera cornea (c) Dacrymyces stillatus.