Fungi

A detailed Summary of Fungi

What are the fungi? Mushrooms, molds, yeasts, athlete's foot diseases, rusts, and smuts

All are filamentous or unicellular.

Individual filaments are termed hyphae.

A mass of hyphae is the mycelium (the feeding stage)

Walls of the filaments are of cellulose with chitin

Cells are eucaryotic; that is, they contain nuclei, mitochondria, other organelles

Nutritionally, all fungi are heterotrophic, mostly aerobic

Saprophytic--live off dead organic matter

Parasitic--obtain nutrients by penetrating tiny branches (haustoria) into a host

Sexual--gametangia produce sperms and eggs

Decomposers of organic materials--important recyclers of matter

The representative genus I shall use is Saprolegnia (can be collected from freshwater habitats by using apple baits in wire cage)

A true mycelium, of tubular threads

The hyphae have 2N nuclei (numerous)

Rules for selecting wild mushrooms as food: DON'T

Production of ascospores, if the proper species of alga is encountered, a new lichen may be produced.

Antheridia--------> sperms (gametes)

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