1. Are they helpful or harmful?
Fungi
Are they helpful or harmful?

2. Traits of Fungi
Most fungi have cells with a cell wall and more than one nucleus
Most are

3. Traits of Fungi They are either: .
Saprobes – feed on material from previously living things (shoes, dead trees, dead animals etc.) or
Parasites – which eat or derive there energy from living things. .

4. Traits of Fungi To reproduce, they send out spores instead of seeds.
Carry pieces of broken hyphae to new places
Form Buds in which a small part of the parent grows into a new organism.

5. Traits of Fungi Most are multicellular
Some like yeasts are unicellular

6. Examples of Fungi
Bread Mold

7. Examples of Fungus
Moldy Fruit

8. Examples of Fungus
Tree Fungus

9. Kinds of Fungi
Sporangia-produce spores at the end of treelike structures called hyphae. (ex. Hyphae)

10. Kinds of Fungi
Club Fungi - have hyphae that form branches underground. They have club shaped parts that produce spores.

11. Kinds of Fungi
Sac Fungi – produce spores in sac-like structures.

12. Helpful Fungi Food – mushrooms Used to make cheese – Blue Cheese
Used to make wine, beer, and whiskey (Yeast)
Used to make bread rise
Used to make soy sauce from soy beans
Used to break down materials and recycle wastes and dead organisms
Used to make certain drugs (ex. Penicillin)

13. Mushrooms

14. Blue Cheese

15. Wine, Beer, and Whiskey

16. Soy Sauce

17. Decaying Tree

18. Lichens
Lichens are mutualistic symbiotic organisms. They have a fungus and a bacterial portion. There are three lichen growth forms which are predominant in nature

19. Fruticose
Crustose
Foliose

20. 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

21. Penicillin

22. Harmful Fungus Cause food spoilage
Cause plant disease such as rusts, Dutch Elm Disease, and mildew
Cause Human diseases such as Ring Worm, Athlete’s Foot, Thrush, lung Infections, and Yeast Infections
Destroy leather, fabrics, plastics, etc.

23. Food Spoilage

24. Dutch Elm Disease

25. Ringworm

26. Athlete’s Foot

27. Thrush

28. Fungal Lung Infection

29. Yeast Infections

30. Fungus Destroying Leather