Fungi by JoSh
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Fungi by JoSh
josh115 Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:33 am
Fungi 
What are fungi?
- Eukaryotes with cell wall
- Heterotrophs by absorbing food from surroundings
- Uses spore to reproduce
- Need moist warm places to grow
- Some unicellular
- Some multicellular
- Examples: mushrooms, mold, yeast
Cell Structure
- Arrange in hyphae-branching thread-like tubes that make the bodies of multicellular fungi.
- The hyphae grow into the food souse & excrete digestive juice then take up the food.
Obtaining Food (Nutrition)
- obtain their food from dead organic matter and hence as known a saprophytes.
- a relatively small percentage derive their food from other living organisms and are known as parasites.
Reproduction
- usually reproduce by producing light weight spores
- spores are produced in fruiting bodies
- Asexual reproduction
- Sexual reproduction
Types
- Threadlike
- Sac
- Club
- Imperfect
What are fungi?
- Eukaryotes with cell wall- Heterotrophs by absorbing food from surroundings
- Uses spore to reproduce
- Need moist warm places to grow
- Some unicellular
- Some multicellular
- Examples: mushrooms, mold, yeast
Cell Structure
- Arrange in hyphae-branching thread-like tubes that make the bodies of multicellular fungi.
- The hyphae grow into the food souse & excrete digestive juice then take up the food.
Obtaining Food (Nutrition)
- obtain their food from dead organic matter and hence as known a saprophytes.
- a relatively small percentage derive their food from other living organisms and are known as parasites.
Reproduction
- usually reproduce by producing light weight spores
- spores are produced in fruiting bodies
- Asexual reproduction
- Sexual reproduction
Types
- Threadlike
- Sac
- Club
- Imperfect
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