Welcome to your B7 Practice Questions 10.7 – Fungus/Altersbestimmung

1. 
What does relative dating find out?

2. 

Relative dating can be used for fossils that are up to million years old.

3. 
Absolute dating finds out the actual age of a fossil, independently of the rock layer or other living things.

4. 

Both carbon isotopes are passed on to all living things through the food .

5. 
What happens to the C-14 in an organism after it dies?

6. 

After 5730 years, only of the radioactive C-14 is left.

7. 
Fossils up to what age can be dated with the radiocarbon method?

8. 

The normal carbon isotope C-12 is stable, but C-14 is .

9. 
Which antibiotic do we obtain from fungi?

10. 

The main body of most fungi is made up of microscopic threads called .

11. 
The cell walls of fungi are made of cellulose.

12. 

Fungi reproduce by forming .

13. 
How do fungi feed?

14. 

Many fungi are : they break down waste material from other organisms and dead organisms.

15. 
The cells of an organism have cell walls, but the organism does not photosynthesise. To which kingdom does it belong?

16. 

Some fungi, such as yeast, are (single-celled).