1. Fungi: A very short coverage
Skim chapter 30, but the information presented here is all you’ll need to know.

2. Characteristics of Kingdom Fungi
Chemoheterotrophs; Nutrition by absorption
Body made of filamentous hyphae, not cells
Cell walls made of chitin
No motile cells or flagella*
Haplontic life cycle*
* except in the most primitive group, the Chytridiomycota

3. Mass of hyphae Collectively called mycelium

4. 4 main groups of fungi Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Ascomycota
(motile gametes, alternation of generations)
Zygomycota
(hundreds of spores in spherical sporangia)
Ascomycota
8 spores in an elongated sac
Basidiomycota
4 spores attached to a club-like structure

6. Hyphae and sporangium
of bread mold, a member of the Zygomycota

9. Lichens A symbiotic association between a fungus and a green alga.
An example is “reindeer moss” which we saw in lab.