Question

Which pair of the following belongs to basidiomycetes?

(a) Puffballs and Claviceps

(b) Peziza and stink horns

(c) Morchella and mushrooms

(d) Birds nest fungi and puffballs.

Answer 1

Answer:(d)  Birds nest fungi and puffballs

The common example of class Basidiomycetes are smut, rusts, the mushrooms the toad stools, the puff balls and the pore fungi.The class Basidiomycetes includes those members that produce their basidia and basidiospores on or in a basidiocarp. The morphology of the basidium is variable. Until recently the morphology of the basidium was believed to be a key to determining relationship in the Basidiomycota.Mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, other polypores, jelly fungi, boletes, chanterelles, earth stars, smuts, bunts, rusts, mirror yeasts, and the human pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus are some examples of Basidiomycetes.