1. Kingdom Fungi

2. Kingdom Fungi Eukaryotic saprophytes – obtain food from
dead organic matter
parasites – feed on living
organisms

3. Fungi STRUCTURE Unicellular Hypha ( slender filament of cytoplasm and
nuclei enclosed by a cell wall)
mass of hyphae that make up an
organism mycelium

4. Fungi STRUCTURE 􀁻 septa – crosswalls that separate
cytoplasm and nuclei into cells
􀁻 coenocytic – describes hyphae that
are aseptate (no
septa) multinucleate

5. Fungal Structure

6. Reproduction in Fungi 􀁻 Fungi can reproduce either sexually
or asexually
􀁻 Adult organisms are haploid (N)
􀁻 Both sexual and asexual
reproduction produce spores,
which become adult organisms

7. Asexual Reproduction spores –ex conidiospore. Chlamydospore
sporangiospore
budding – mitosis with uneven
distribution of cytoplasm
fragmentation – breaking of an
organism into pieces, which develop
into new individuals

8. Sexual Reproduction occurs when hyphae of two
genetically different individuals of
the same species encounter each
other
gametes (produced by mitosis)
come together and form diploid
(2N) zygote
zygote undergoes meiosis to form
haploid (N) spores

9. Classification Fungi are divided into phylum based
on sexual reproductive structures:
Oomycetes-oospores
Zygomycetes – zygospore
Ascomycetes – ascospore
Basidiomycetes – basidiospore

10. Oomycetes
Genus:- Albugo.sp

11. Zygomycetes sexual reproductive structure – zygospore
most of them are saprophytic
vegetative hyphae lack
septa (aseptate)

12. zygospore

13. Genus Rhizopus.sp “Bread Molds”
hyphae modified into:
- rhizoids (holdfasts)
- stolons (connecting
hyphae)
- sporangiospore
(asexual reproductive
structures)

16. Ascomycetes “Sac Fungi” includes: yeasts, some molds, septate hyphae
asexual reproduction – spores
(conidiophores)

17. Genus Aspergillus.sp

18. Genus Penicillium.sp

19. Basidiomycetes includes: mushrooms, puffballs, shelf fungi
also, economically important plant
pathogens: rusts and smuts
sexual reproduction by basidiospore

20. Genus:Agaricus.sp