1. KEY CONCEPT Fungi are heterotrophs that absorb their food.

2. Fungi are adapted to absorb their food from the environment.
Plants and fungi have different traits:
Fungal cell walls are made of chitin.
Plant cell walls are made of cellulose.
Plants have chlorophyll and photosynthesize.
Fungi absorb food through hyphae.
Plants and fungi have similar traits:
Both are nonmoving.
Grow underground and aboveground.
May produce spores.

3. Fungi are multicellular organisms, with the exception of yeasts.
hyphae
mycellium
fruiting body

4. Fungi come in many shapes and sizes.
Primitive fungi are aquatic and have flagellated spores.
Sac fungi form a sac that contains spores for reproduction (called ascus, plural= asci).
Yeasts are single-celled sac fungi.
Morels and truffles are multicellular sac fungi.

5. Bread molds are often found on spoiled food.
Also includes fungi used to ferment certain foods.
mycorrhizae belong to this group
form zygospores during reproduction

6. Club fungi have fruiting bodies which are club-shaped.
include mushrooms, puffballs, and shelf fungi
reproductive structures called basidia

7. Fungi reproduce sexually and asexually.
Most fungi reproduce both sexually and asexually.
Yeasts reproduce asexually through budding.
Yeasts form asci during sexual reproduction.

8. Multicellular fungi have complex reproductive cycles.
distinctive reproductive structures

9. All fungi form spores and zygotes.

10. Multicellular fungi have complex reproductive cycles.
life cycles may include either sexual or asexual reproduction or both

11. Club Fungi

12. Spores will land
Fungus #1 mycelium grows underground….Fungus #2 mycelium grows underground . .
Two fungi grow together and fuse
Diploid fruiting body grows from the mass
Haploid spores created & released from the underside of the fruiting body . . . . .
ground

13. . . Spores will land New hyphae will grow into a new mycelium
Cycle repeats . .
ground

14. Lichens Fungus + blue-green bacteria or green algae
Mycelium of fungi surrounds the green organism
Grow on rocks, soil, trees
Mutualistic relationship
Algae/bacteria: provides food
Fungus: benefits unclear (warmth, substrate to grow in)
Food source & help create soil