1. Essential Question: Page 7
What are characteristics of fungi?

2. 16.Fungus – define and give 6-7 characteristics
Reproduction: Draw Figures 2,3,and 7. Read paragraph “Making More Fungi” and explain how hyphae, spores, and budding produce new fungi.
17. Heterotroph – define and give an example
Disadvantages of Fungi – 1. 2. 3.
Prevention of fungal infections: 1.
Examples:
Benefits of Fungi – 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Treatment of Fungal infections– 1. 2.
P7. Fungi: Characteristics/Reproduction/Treatment and Prevention of Fungal Infections

3. Characteristics of Parasites
Examples of Parasitic Diseases
18. Parasites: Define and list 3 characteristics
19. Adaptation: Def. and example
Crease 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Treatment of Parasitic Diseases
Prevention of Parasitic Diseases
Treatment :
Prevention:
Page 8. Parasites: Characteristics/Examples/Treatment and Prevention

4. Vocabulary
16.Fungi: Eukaryotic (nucleus), non-photosynthetic organisms. *Most are multicellular heterotrophs (get food from their environment).

5. Fungi characteristics
Eukaryotic (nucleus)
Heterotrophic: no chlorophyll
Rigid cell walls
Spores are airborne and can cause allergic reactions. Ex: (mold)
Attacks tissues of living plants & animals.
Can cause diseases
Attack our food sources; therefore, they are competitors with us for nutrients
(Bread mold)

6. Characteristics continued
8. Have their own kingdom (FUNGI)
10. Different shapes, sizes, and colors
11. Live on or near their food supply (don’t catch or make their own food)
12. Most are consumers, some are decomposers
13. Some are parasitic
14. Ex. Mushrooms, Athlete’s foot, baker’s yeast, ringworm, corn blight

7. 17. Heterotroph: “Troph” means “food” or “nourishment”
17. Heterotroph: “Troph” means “food” or “nourishment”. “Hetero” means “different”. Put it together: a heterotroph is an organism that cannot make its own food and must get it from a different source. Ex. Fungi absorb their food from the environment. They live on their food. Animals and humans are heterotrophs, too, but we use our mouth to EAT our food. Plants make their own food. They are AUTOTROPHS. What do you think “AUTO” means? (No, not “car”!)
“Auto” means “self”. Plants can make their food within themselves through photosynthesis.

8. Fungi reproduction
Budding: a “bud” forms and pinches off from the parent (yeast); results in a new yeast (fungus)
Hyphae (stringy structures) break apart & each new piece becomes a fungus.
Spores are released into the air & when they come to a place where conditions are right, they break open forming new fungi.

9. Disadvantages of Fungi
Airborne spores, when inhaled, can trigger allergic reactions
B. Some are pathogenic (cause disease) Ex. athlete’s foot, ringworm, oral thrush, blight in plants, can attack internal organs
C. Attack our food sources, making them a COMPETITOR with humans for nutrients. Ex. Attack corn, wheat, fruit-bearing trees, bread, etc.

10. Ringworm
Athlete’s foot
Candidiasis/Oral thrush

11. Corn blight
Bread mold
Tree fungus

12. Benefits of Fungi
A. Food – ex. Mushrooms on pizza
B. Used to make antibiotics, ex. penicillin
C. Other medicines and vitamins
D. Used to make cheeses, soy sauce, and citric acid
E. Yeast used to make bread is a fungus.

13. Prevention of Fungal Infections:
1. Basic hygiene - cleanliness
Ex. Wiping down wrestling/exercise mats before use and after
Treatment of Fungal Infections:
Anti-fungal medications
Some antibiotics; some allergy medicines