The Kingdom Fungi

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The Kingdom Fungi

• Mysterious Molds
• Mildews
• And Mushrooms

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1. Fungi are their own kingdom

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2. 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

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3. Fungi

• Absorb food from plants or other substrates
  (things they grow on)
• They are Heterotrophs

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4. Fungi

• Asexual (will look like a clone)
• Reproduce with spores or budding
• Sexual( most diverse)
• produce with spores/fruiting bodies

Sexual reproduction gives the most diverse genes
and increases the chance for survival.
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5. Alexander Fleming

• Discovered a blue-green mold killed the
  staphylococcus in his lab. It was the antibiotic
  penicillin.

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6. Some are Parasites!

• Dutch Elm Disease
• Athletes Foot

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7. Yeasts are a type of fungus

• Yeasts grow by budding
• Yeasts are present almost everywhere

Budding yeasts
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8. 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

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Other types of fungi grow with hyphae
9. 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.
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10. Mushrooms are another type of fungi

• Forest fungi have many ecological roles
• Diverse Plant pathogen
• Decomposer Food Source
• Tree/Plant helper Some Poisonous

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Mushrooms
Anatomy Cap Stipe Hymenium (gills, pores, teeth,
smooth)

We use these features to ID mushrooms
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Conks
Woody Sign of decay
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Cups, Puffballs, Earthstars

Kingdom Fungi is a diverse kingdom!
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Microscopy Photographs

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prokaryote
flagellum, water, air, or other
heterotroph or autotroph
binary fission conjugation
heterotroph or autotroph
pseudopod, cilia, flagellum, host
binary fission conjugation
eukaryote
heterotroph
relies on air or other organisms
spores or budding
eukaryote
air, food, water, contact
must have host cell
non living
parasite