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Fungi - Coggle Diagram
Fungi
Structure
Most are many-celled
Most are saprophytic
Hyphae
Many-celled
Thread-like tubes
Produce enzymes
Digestion happens on the outside
Breakdown
Fungal cells absorb
Long filaments of hypae which form a mycelim
Phyla
Ascomycota (Sac Fungi)
Yeast
Morels
Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)
Puffbals
Mushrooms
Oomycota (Water Molds)
Mildews
Potato Blight
Zygomycota (Bread Molds)
Rhizopus Stolonifer (Black Bread Mold)
Deuteromycota (Imperfect Fungi)
Athelete's Foot
Penincillium
What are?
Molds
In bread
Yeast
Bread
Mushrooms
Mildew
Shower curtains
Fungi and Plants
Some fungi interact with plant roots
Form mycorrhizae
80% of plants develop
Symbiosis
Fungus --> Glucose
Plant --> Nutrients
Lady's slipper is dependent
Fossilized fungus
460 million year old rock
Forms association w/ plant roots
Enabled algae to move onto land
Characteristics
Once classified as plants
Cell wall
Grow best in
Humid
Tropical
Warm
In between toes
Can be both large or small
Hetotrophs
Major Decomposers
Can reproduce sexually by mating hypae filaments
Can produce asexually by spores
Reproduction
Two genetically different hyphae connect
Meiosis occurs
Spores form
Reproductive cell
Waterproof
Origin
Maybe algae
Likely
Flagellated protists
Slime molds
Fossil Record
Not too helpful