1. FUNGI

2. The Fungi kingdom was grouped with plants in the past
The Fungi kingdom was grouped with plants in the past. This was because its parts and life style often resemble plants.
Fungi cannot make their own food, possess little movement and are composed of one or many cells.

3. 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

4. More characteristics Plant-like but without chlorophyll
Feeds on living organisms - parasite
Feeds on dead or decaying matter - saprophyte

5. Fungi phylums Phylum Zygomycota (the Bread Molds)
Oomycota (the Water Molds)
Phylum Ascomycota (the Sac Fungi)
Phylum Basidiomycota (the Club Fungi)
Phylum Deuteromycota (the Fungi Imperfecti)

6. Reproduction
Asexual (fission, budding and spores) Sexual (sexual spores, life cycles)

7. Some examples of common fungi
Molds
grow in warm and moist places
Produces spore cases called sporangia
Hyphae threadlike structures which grow into and on food - absorbs water, minerals and food.
Parts of a mold

8. Mushrooms Club Fungi Mushrooms, puffballs, and bracket fungi.
Produces spores in club-shaped structure.
Some are parasitic, but most live on dead or decaying matter.
Some are edible, but many others are poisonous.

9. Yeast Sac Fungi Spores produced in sac called a ascus.
Yeast reproduce by budding
Produce carbon dioxide by a process called fermentation (obtain energy).

10. Lichens Two organisms living closely together (fungus and algae)
Mutualism (symbiotic relation)
Fungus provides home and water
Algae provides food
Lichens are frequently found growing on rocks since they provide their own food

11. Examples of each phylum
Basidiomycota
Mushrooms
Fungi Imperfecti (Deuteromycota)
Athlete’s Foot
Oomycota
Mildew
Zygomycota
Rhizopus
Ascomycota
Yeast