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Title: 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!!!
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