Lichen

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Lichen

• Algae and fungi lichen each other.
• Mutualistic symbiotic relationship.
• Pioneer species
• Breakdown rock
• Can be found almost anywhere.

2
Club Fungus

• Basidiomycota
• Reproduce sexually by forming spores on top of
  club-shaped structures called basidia.
• Septa walls

3
Sac Fungus

• Septa walls
• Ascomycota
• Ex. Morel mushroom (edible)
• Truffles, bakers yeast, fungi in lichen

4
Imperfect Fungi

• Deuteromyctes
• science understands their life cycles
  "imperfectly.
• Some fungi in this group can eventually be
  grouped in the club or sac fungi category.
• Ex. Yeast, penicillium

5
Zygomycota

• Zygomycetes
• Mold
• Spores form during sexual
• reproduction.

6
Irish Potato Famine

• Caused by a water mold
• Destroyed potato crops
• People died of starvation and malnutrition.

7
Salem Witch Trials

• Ergot fungus that grew on rye.
• Caused hallucinations.
• Said to have something to do with the witch
  trials.
• http//www.hbci.com/wenonah/history/ergot.htm

8

• Asexual division of protists producing two
  offspring.
• Binary fission

9

• Sexual reproduction between protists.
• Conjugation

10

• Phylum of protists that have pseudopodia.
• Sarcodina

11

• Phylum of protists that have cilia.
• Ciliophora
• Phylum of protists that have flagella.
• Zoomastigina

12

• Phylum of protists that do not have much
  locom0tion.
• Sporozoa

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• Which scientists study fungi?
• Mycology

14

• Are important in the weathering process of rocks.
• lichen

15

• The tangled mass of hyphae that makes up the
  fungis body.
• Mycellium

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• What protist moves by pseudopodia?
• Amoeba

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• What protist moves by cilia?
• paramecium