1. From Bacteria to Plants Chapter 3.3 Pages 95-104
Fungus
From Bacteria to Plants Chapter 3.3
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2. What’s a Fungus?
Bread Mold
Mushrooms
Bracket Fungus on trees

3. What’s a Fungus? Are all Eukaryotes (have a nucleus)
Reproduce via Spores
Are heterotrophs (can not make own food)
Live in warm, moist environments
On a dewy lawn
Forest floors
Wet bathroom tiles

4. Structure Arranged in structures called Hyphae (Hi-fee)
Branching, thread-like tubes of cytoplasm
Contain numerous nuclei
Allow substances to move freely and quickly through the fungus

5. Hyphae

6. All Fungi are… A. Prokaryotes & Heterotrophs
B. Eukaryotes & Autotrophs
C. Eukaryotes & Heterotrophs

7. How Fungi Feed Hyphae grow into the food source
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Release digestive chemicals that break food down
Absorb food through hyphae
Are Decomposers: Feed on dead organisms…
Broken tree limbs
…or Living organisms – a Parasite
Page 95
Athlete’s foot.

8. Exit Pass
What is the structure of a fungus made of and how do they acquire food?
How do fungi reproduce?

9. Reproduction
Create lightweight spores that easily travel in air or water
Produce 1,000’s at a time.

10. Classification Threadlike Sac Club Imperfect
Refer to textbook page 99 for details.

11. What is the structure of a fungus made of?
A. Mold
B. Hyphae
C. Spores

12. Which of the following is NOT a correct description of fungi?
A. Parasite
B. Heterotroph
C. Decomposer
D. Autotroph

13. Exit Pass Using textbook page 99, list the 4 classifications of Fungi.
Explain how the first 3 categories of fungi were named.

14. Fungus Among Us Read about Fungi in the Living World
Textbook pages
Answer Section Review questions (p104, #1-4)