Chapter 31 Key Concepts

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Chapter 31 Key Concepts

• Absorption nutrition enables fungi to live as
  decomposers and symbionts.
• Fungi reproduce by asexual or sexual spores.
• Fungi are classified by the way they produce
  their spores.
• Ecosystems depend on fungi as decomposers and
  symbionts.

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Chapter 31 Key Concepts

• Many organisms eat fungi.
• Animals and fungi evolved from a common protistan
  ancestor.

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Points to Know

• What are the characteristics of Kingdom Fungi?
• What is the difference between plasmogamy and
  karyogamy?
• What are the importances of the fungi?
• What is the evidence that fungi and animals have
  a common ancestor?