Kingdom FungiKingdom Fungi

Phylum: Zygomycota Zygomycota (Sporangium Fungi)(Sporangium Fungi) Phylum: Basidiomycota Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)(Club Fungi)

Phylum: Ascomycota Ascomycota (Cup Fungi & Yeasts)(Cup Fungi & Yeasts)

Phylum: Mycophycota Mycophycota (Lichens)(Lichens)

Phylum: ZygomycotaZygomycota

Phylum: ZygomycotaZygomycota

• Common name: Spore fungi

• Habitat: land/aquatic/host organisms

• Nutrition: Heterotrophic (parasitic and saprophytic)

Phylum: ZygomycotaZygomycota

• Special structures: Spores in caps (sporangia)

• Reproduction: spores, zygospores

• Economic/Biological Importance: decomposers, cause of potato blight

• Examples: Rhizopus stolonifer (bread

mold)

Phylum: BasidiomycotaBasidiomycota

Phylum: BasidiomycotaBasidiomycota

• Common name: Club fungi

• Habitat: land/host organisms

• Nutrition: Heterotrophic (parasitic and saprophytic)

Phylum: BasidiomycotaBasidiomycota

• Special structures: Spores in basidia (club-like structures on gills of mushroom)

• Reproduction: spores• Economic/Biological Importance: food

(edible mushrooms, parasites on grain crops like wheat, oats, rye)

• Examples: Amanita phalloides (death cap) poisonous mushroom

Phylum: AscomycotaAscomycota

Phylum AscomycotaAscomycota

• Common name: Sac/Cup fungi

• Habitat: land/aquatic/host organisms

• Nutrition: Heterotrophic (parasitic and saprophytic)

AscomycotaAscomycota

• Special structures: Spores in ascus (sac-like structures)

• Reproduction: spores/budding• Economic/Biological Importance:

making cheese, baking and brewing, causes athlete’s foot and ringworm

• Examples: Saccharomyces cerevisiae (bread yeast)

MycophycotaMycophycota

• Common name: Lichen

• Habitat: land/aquatic/host organisms

• Nutrition: Autotrophic/Heterotrophic

Lichens: Phylum MycophycotaLichens: Phylum MycophycotaFruticose

(fruit)Crustose

(crusty)

Foliose

(foliage. leaf-like)

MycophycotaMycophycota• Special structures: “Dual” organism

made of fungifungi (heterotroph-provides water and

minerals) and algaealgae (autotroph-makes food)

• Reproduction: spores/binary fission

• Economic/Biological Importance: first organism on bare rock; helps to start soil; food for reindeer

• Examples: Cladonia cristatella

Kingdom Fungi – VocabularyKingdom Fungi – Vocabulary

hyphae: thin filaments of tube-shaped mass of cytoplasm with many nuclei

mycelium: a mat of filaments composed of a mass of hyphae

rhizoids: root-like organ of certain fungi; help to break down food into simpler substances

Kingdom Fungi – VocabularyKingdom Fungi – Vocabulary

basidia: a club-like structure that forms the sexual spores in certain fungi

ascus: saclike structure that produces sexual spores by meiosis

spore: reproductive cell capable of developing into new haploid organisms without fusing with another cell