4. Fungal Characteristics
       1)Cell wall made of Chitin
    2)Heterotrophs and major Decomposers
     3)Body is made of Long filaments of hyphae which form a mycelium
        4)Reproduce sexually and asexually
Asexually by spores
Sexually by mating of hyphae filaments
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5. An example of Fungi You know

6. Mushrooms – “Club Like” Fungi or Basidiomycete Fungi

7. Bracket Fungi – Basidiomycete Fungi

8. Bread Mold – a Zygomycete Fungi

9. Note the cup shapes and orange peel colour
Cup Fungi – Ascomycete Fungi
Note the cup shapes and orange peel colour

10. Kingdom Fungi – you must know 5 Major Phyla
Phylum Zygomycota = the Bread Molds
Rhizopus – black bread mold
Oomycota = the Water Molds
Water mold, potato blight, mildew
Phylum Ascomycota = the Sac Fungi
Yeast, morels, truffles
Phylum Basidiomycota = the Club Fungi
Mushrooms, puffballs, bracket fungi, rusts, smuts, toadstools
Phylum Deuteromycota = the Fungi Imperfecti

11. Zygomycota (Rhizopus) the Common Molds
-are primarily decomposers
-asexual spores may be produced in sporangia
-sexual reproduction occurs between + and – strains forming a 2n zygote; a zygospore develops and may lie dormant for a long period of time; meiosis occurs just before germination
-only the zygote is diploid; all hyphae and asexual spores are haploid

12. Zygomycota – common molds
The fungal mass of hyphae, known as the MYCELIUM penetrates the bread and produces the fruiting bodies on top of the stalks
Mycelia = a mass of hyphae or filaments

13. Rhizoids = root-like hyphae
The zhizoids meet underground and mating occurs between hyphae of different molds (SEXUAL REPRODUCTION)

14. Zygomycota (Rhizopus)

16. Lifecycle of a Zygomycete Fungi – Asexual then Sexual

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18. Ascomycota – Cup Fungi Life Cycle

19. Yeast is an Ascomycete Fungus

20. Truffles are round, warty, fungi that are irregular in shape
Truffles are round, warty, fungi that are irregular in shape. They vary from the size of a walnut to that of a man's fist. Since the times of the Greeks and Romans these fungi have been used in Europe as delicacies, as aphrodisiacs, and as medicines. They are among the most expensive of the world's natural foods, often commanding as much as $250 to $450 per pound.
Truffles are harvested in Europe with the aid of female pigs or truffle dogs, which are able to detect the strong smell of mature truffles underneath the surface of the ground. The female pig becomes excited when she sniffs a chemical that is similar to the male swine sex attractant. The use of dogs to find truffles is also and option.

21. Morels are Ascomycete Fungi

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23. Basidiomycete or Club Fungi

24. Life Cycle of Basidiomycete Fungi

25. Basidiomycete Fungi that all produce Basiospores
Bracket Fungi
Puff Balls
Basidiomycete Fungi that all produce Basiospores
Jelly Fungi
Mushrooms

26. Other Basidiomycetes Rusts and Smuts
Rust infecting wheat leaves
Whitrot Smut digesting old wood
Rust infecting a Leaf

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28. Deuteromycota (Imperfect Fungi)
-Regarded as imperfect because they exhibit no sexual stage has been observed in their life cycle
-Members are not closely related and are not necessarily similar in structure or appearance; do not share a common ancestry, polyphyletic = coming from many ancestors – hmm weird 

29. Deuteromycota – the Fungi Imperfecti
Resemble Ascomycetes, but their reproductive cycle has never been observed
Different from Ascomycetes because there is a definite lack of sexual reproduction, which is why they are called Imperfect Fungi
Penicillium fungi
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31. Water Molds -- Oomycota
The water molds are better known as the MILDEWS. Fish tank fuzz is an example.
Protist-like mold because share common characteristics with plant-like protists, such as the cell wall

32. LifeCycle of Oomycota

33. Things to Know about Oomycete Fungi
Water molds or mildews
Cause diseases such as potato blight
Cell walls made of cellulose (like plant)
Hyphae have multiple nuclei! Because the cell walls do not fully close off.
Spore swims away like a flagellate, which is why it is protist like (think of Euglena)

34. Irish Potato Famine of 19th Century
Devastated potato crops, causing devastating starvation in Ireland 

36. Phylum Ex’s Characteristics Asexual Sexual
Oomycota
Mildew
Spud blight
Cellulose cell walls, 2N hyphae
Flagellated oospores from sporangia
Gametes fuse in gametangia creating oospores
Zygomycota
Rhizopus a dung fungus
Chitin cell walls
Coenocytic = hyphae lack crosswalls
Unflagel. spores drop from sporangia
Gametangia fuse to create zygospore
Ascomycota
Yeast, morels, truffles
Conidia on conidophores
Hyphae + & - fuse to create ascospores in ascus

37. Mushrooms Puffballs, rusts, smuts Cross walls in hyphae
Basidiomycota
Mushrooms Puffballs, rusts, smuts
Cross walls in hyphae
Asexual by way of Conidophores which produce conidiospores
Sexual when hyphae fuse in BASIDIA to produce
basidiospores
Fungi Imperfecti
Deuteromycota
Penicillium,
Athlete’s Foot fungus,
Tomato Blight
Similar To
Basidio and
Zygomy
Asexual by conidia which produce conidophores
Sexual repro
Not known

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coenocytic    having multiple nuclei embedded in cytoplasm without cross walls; nonseptate
Cross Walls of Hyphae
Coenocytic hyphae where the nucleis of each cell is embedded in the cytoplasm without a cell wall
Eg. Zygomycota, Oomycota
Hyphae with cross walls
Eg. Basidiomycota, Ascomycota

39. Lichens
Lichens are mutualistic/*symbiotic* organisms. They have a fungus and an algal or cyanobacterial portion. There are three lichen growth forms which are predominant in nature: Crustose, Fruticose, and Foliose.

40. Fruticose
Crustose
Foliose

41. Mycorrhizae
Mycorrhizae means “fungus-root”; mutualistic relationship between plant and fungi
The plant photosynthesizes while the fungus more efficiently takes up nutrients and water from the rhizosphere than the roots would alone.
Plant benefits include:
Improved nutrient/water uptake
Improved root growth
Improved plant growth and yield
Improved disease resistance
Reduced transplant shock
Reduced drought stress

42. Soredia are the asexual reproductive part of lichens, containing both symbionts. Rhizines may be present to anchor the lichen. Notice the distinctive algal layer and the fungal layer present in the above illustration.

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