These questions have been used on exams in past years. Additional questions are based on slides, overhead transparencies, and figures reproduced in the exam; see old exams for these. At least one old exam will be given to each student at the first class meeting. Additional old exams have been sent to EJOB, IUSA, Latino Affairs, Black Culture Center, and Athletics. Dozens of different old exams were sent: every exam given for the past many years. They always include answers.

The comprehensive final exam draws on all lecture topics, not merely #17 Global Exam Questions. Some exams have lots of new questions; some exams are only half new. Questions based on slides and transparencies shown during the exam, and on figures placed on the exam itself, have not often been repeated directly. That is, each year I have usually rewritten those questions.

Please let me know if you find any typos: mtansey@indiana.edu or (812) 855-2914 (machine). Thanks.

Michael R. Tansey
Department of Biology
Jordan Hall
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-2914

July 11, 2001

1. What is a fungus?

2. Characteristics of fungi used to get started on identification of a specimen.

3. The major groups of fungi.

4. How to identify mushrooms.

5. Mushroom poisoning.

6. Wood-rotting fungi.

7. Puffballs and their relatives.

8. Rusts and smuts.

9. Identification of common molds.

10. Yeasts and their relatives.

11. Medical mycology.

12. Cup fungi, morels, truffles, and their relatives.

13. Lichens.

14. Ergotism, mycotoxins, and some miscellaneous questions on ascomycetes.

There is no section 15 or 16.

17. Global Questions.

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