Kingdom Fungi

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Kingdom Fungi
Im such a fun-guy!
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Fungi

• Common Examples
• Moulds
• Yeasts
• Mushrooms

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Comparison chart
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Are they plants?

• Once upon a time these organism were considered
  plants.
• But alas they are not for the following 2 reasons

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1. Absorption of Nutrients

• Heterotrophic ? gather nutrients from their
  environment (no photosynthesis)
• Nutrients digested externally before being
  absorbed ? by slender filaments called hyphae
  (attached to the substrate)

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2. Reproduction

• Fungi can reproduce in a variety of ways both
  sexually and asexually. Sometimes using
  fragmentation and budding, but always using
  spores
• Often the only visible portion of the fungi are
  its reproductive structures (mushrooms and molds)

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Life Cycle

• Asexual
• Spore lands on surface
• Spore opens and new hypha develops
• Hypha develops into a mature fungi which will
  reproduce spores
• Genetically identical offspring

• Sexual
• Hypha from different
• fungi meet up
• They join and form a
• spore with mixed DNA
• Spore matures into
• new fungi
• Genetically different
• offspring

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STRUCTURE
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THE END!!!