FUNGIBy Adam, Aaron, and Jeremy

Explanation of a Fungi’s cell

Multicellular

Yeast (single celled)

Yeast reproduce through budding.

Fungi have cell walls, but unlike plants their cell walls are composed chitin.

Chitin is the same stuff that arthropod exoskeletons are composed of (crickets, scorpions, etc..)

Cont.

Hyphae which develop from fungal spores are the most basic unit of multicellular fungi.

Mycelium is a network of filaments similar to roots.

Spores are the fungal equivalent of a seed.

Energy Acquisition

Fungi are heterotroph

Heterotroph means that they eat organic matter and break it down to obtain energy.

Saptrophic: Eats dead organic material.

Parasitic: Eats living organic material.

Examples of Fungi

Yeast: single celled, reproduce asexually through budding, used in baking.

Nia Vibrissa: Wood rotting fungus, lives on driftwood and submerged timber, reproduces sexually.

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“WOW!”

The oldest fungus around are at least 545 million years old and is aquatic.

There are fungus rings living around Stonehenge that are so large they can be seen from an airplane.

There is a theory that fungi first came to earth from space!

Bibliography

Speer, B. (n.d.). Ucmp. In Retrieved from http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fungi/chytrids.html

campingsurvival.com. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.campingsurvival.com/souninfa.html

Faculty of Clinton Community College. (2012). Clinton community college. Retrieved from http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/michael.gregory/files/bio 102/bio 102 lectures/fungi/fungi.htm

Biggs, A. (2000). Biology the dinamics of life. (pp. 546-547). Westerville: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.