Fungi: A very short coverage Skim chapter 30, but the information presented here is all you’ll need to know.

Characteristics of Kingdom Fungi Chemoheterotrophs; Nutrition by absorption Body made of filamentous hyphae, not cells Cell walls made of chitin No motile cells or flagella* Haplontic life cycle* * except in the most primitive group, the Chytridiomycota

Mass of hyphae Collectively called mycelium

4 main groups of fungi Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Ascomycota (motile gametes, alternation of generations) Zygomycota (hundreds of spores in spherical sporangia) Ascomycota 8 spores in an elongated sac Basidiomycota 4 spores attached to a club-like structure

Hyphae and sporangium of bread mold, a member of the Zygomycota

Lichens A symbiotic association between a fungus and a green alga. An example is “reindeer moss” which we saw in lab.