1. Kingdom Fungi
Phylum: Zygomycota (Sporangium Fungi) Phylum: Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)
Phylum: Ascomycota (Cup Fungi & Yeasts)
Phylum: Mycophycota (Lichens)

2. Phylum: Zygomycota

3. Phylum: Zygomycota Common name: Spore fungi
Habitat: land/aquatic/host organisms
Nutrition: Heterotrophic
(parasitic and saprophytic)

4. Phylum: Zygomycota Special structures: Spores in caps (sporangia)
Reproduction: spores, zygospores
Economic/Biological Importance: decomposers, cause of potato blight
Examples: Rhizopus stolonifer
(bread mold)

5. Phylum: Basidiomycota

6. Phylum: Basidiomycota
Common name: Club fungi
Habitat: land/host organisms
Nutrition: Heterotrophic
(parasitic and saprophytic)

7. Phylum: Basidiomycota
Special structures: Spores in basidia (club-like structures on gills of mushroom)
Reproduction: spores
Economic/Biological Importance: food (edible mushrooms, parasites on grain crops like wheat, oats, rye)
Examples: Amanita phalloides
(death cap) poisonous mushroom

8. Phylum: Ascomycota

9. Phylum Ascomycota Common name: Sac/Cup fungi
Habitat: land/aquatic/host organisms
Nutrition: Heterotrophic
(parasitic and saprophytic)

10. Ascomycota Special structures: Spores in ascus
(sac-like structures)
Reproduction: spores/budding
Economic/Biological Importance: making cheese, baking and brewing, causes athlete’s foot and ringworm
Examples: Saccharomyces cerevisiae (bread yeast)

11. Mycophycota Common name: Lichen Habitat: land/aquatic/host organisms
Nutrition: Autotrophic/Heterotrophic

12. Lichens: Phylum Mycophycota
Fruticose
(fruit)
Crustose
(crusty)
Foliose
(foliage. leaf-like)

13. Mycophycota
Special structures: “Dual” organism made of fungi (heterotroph-provides water and minerals) and algae (autotroph-makes food)
Reproduction: spores/binary fission
Economic/Biological Importance: first organism on bare rock; helps to start soil; food for reindeer
Examples: Cladonia cristatella

14. Kingdom Fungi – Vocabulary
hyphae: thin filaments of tube-shaped mass of cytoplasm with many nuclei
mycelium: a mat of filaments composed of a mass of hyphae
rhizoids: root-like organ of certain fungi; help to break down food into simpler substances

15. Kingdom Fungi – Vocabulary
basidia: a club-like structure that forms the sexual spores in certain fungi
ascus: saclike structure that produces sexual spores by meiosis
spore: reproductive cell capable of developing into new haploid organisms without fusing with another cell