1. FUNGI

2. WHAT ARE FUNGI?
Planet Earth: Jungles: Growing Fungi : Video : Discovery Channel

4. Fungi Have a nucleus and cell wall Can’t produce own food
Get food by living or decomposing other living things
fungi.mp4

5. 2 Different Groups of Fungi
Yeasts
Round to oval shaped single cells

6. Moulds
Long, thread-like cells
Most fungi change their shape from one to the other in their lifetime.
yeast.mp4

7. How Yeasts Reproduce Asexually – Budding
Old cell splits into two new cells
New cell is always smaller than parent
2. Sexually
2 yeast cells come together to form 1

8. How Moulds Reproduce Sexually
filaments (pieces of 2 different moulds overlap and exchange DNA
2. Asexual – Fragmentation
one filament divides into small pieces
makes many new moulds from one piece

9. 3. Spore Formation mould cell changes shape grows stalk with cap
cap has millions spores
get carried by wind or water to new place
spores.mp4

10. Uses of Fungi yeast used to bake bread food source (mushrooms)
beer and wine producing
decomposers (break down dead material)
decomposers.mp4
antibiotics (penicillin)
fungal importance.mp4

11. Dangerous Fungi Some fungi can make you sick/kill you. Examples:
poisonous mushrooms
black mould in homes
MSI: Mould Scene Incorporated - YouTube