The Kingdom Fungi
Mysterious Molds
Mildews
And Mushrooms
Fungi are their own kingdom
Fungi are not plants
They have a cell wall like plants, but…..
Plants make their own food (sugars) from light
Fungi are more like animals than like plants
Fungi
Absorb food from plants or other substrates (things they grow on)
They are Heterotrophs
Fungi
- Asexual – 1 parent
- Reproduce with spores or budding
- Sexual – 2 parents
- produce with spores/fruiting bodies
Alexander Fleming –accidental discovery
Discovered a blue-green mold killed the staphylococcus in his lab. It was the antibiotic penicillin
Some are Parasites!
Dutch Elm Disease
Athletes Foot
Yeasts are a type of fungus
Yeasts grow by budding
Yeasts are present almost everywhere
Budding yeasts
Yeasts
Do not make their own food with photosynthesis
Use food and give off carbon dioxide (CO2) through respiration
This is how yeast
makes bread rise
Other types of fungi grow with hyphae – hairlike strands
Hyphae are strands
that are much smaller
than human hair.
When you peel away
bark from a dead,
fallen tree, white
hyphae are sometimes
visible.
Mushrooms are another type of fungi
Forest fungi have many ecological roles
Diverse Plant pathogen
Decomposer Food Source
Tree/Plant helper Some Poisonous
MushroomsAnatomy
Cap
Stipe
Hymenium
(gills, pores, teeth,
smooth)
We use these
features to ID
mushrooms
Conks
Woody
Sign of decay
Cups, Puffballs, Earthstars
Kingdom Fungi is a diverse
kingdom!
Microscopy Photographs