The Kingdom Fungi

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The Kingdom Fungi

• Mysterious Molds
• Mildews
• And Mushrooms

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Fungi are their own kingdom

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Fungi are not plants

• Plants make their own food (sugars) from light
• Fungi are more like animals than like plants

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Fungi

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

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Fungi

• Reproduce with spores

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Plants

• Reproduce with seeds

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Yeasts are a type of fungus

• Yeasts grow by budding
• Yeasts are present almost everywhere

Budding yeasts
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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
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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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