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

2. Fungi are their own kingdom

3. Fungi are not plants Plants make their own food (sugars) from light
Fungi are more like animals than like plants

4. Absorb food from plants or other substrates (things they grow on)
Fungi
Absorb food from plants or other substrates (things they grow on)

5. Fungi
Reproduce with spores

6. Plants
Reproduce with seeds

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

8. 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

9. 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.

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

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

12. Conks
Woody
Sign of decay

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

14. Microscopy Photographs