1. Mysterious Molds Mildews And Mushrooms
The Kingdom Fungi
Mysterious Molds
Mildews
And Mushrooms

2. Fungi are their own kingdom

4. Fungi are not plants They have a cell wall like plants, but…..
Plants make their own food (sugars) from light
Fungi are more like animals than like plants

6. Absorb food from plants or other substrates (things they grow on)
Fungi
Absorb food from plants or other substrates (things they grow on)
They are Heterotrophs

8. Asexual (will look like a clone)
Fungi
Asexual (will look like a clone)
Reproduce with spores or budding
Sexual( most diverse)
produce with spores/fruiting bodies
Sexual reproduction gives the most diverse genes and increases the chance for survival.

10. Alexander Fleming
Discovered a blue-green mold killed the staphylococcus in his lab. It was the antibiotic penicillin.

11. Some are Parasites!
Dutch Elm Disease
Athletes Foot

12. Yeasts are a type of fungus
Yeasts grow by budding
Yeasts are present almost everywhere
Budding yeasts

13. 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

14. 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.

15. Mushrooms are another type of fungi
Forest fungi have many ecological roles
Diverse Plant pathogen
Decomposer Food Source
Tree/Plant helper Some Poisonous

16. Mushrooms Anatomy Cap Stipe Hymenium (gills, pores, teeth, smooth)
We use these features to ID mushrooms

17. Conks
Woody
Sign of decay

18. Cups, Puffballs, Earthstars
Kingdom Fungi is a diverse kingdom!

19. Microscopy Photographs