The Kingdom Fungi

Mysterious Molds

Mildews

And Mushrooms

Fungi are their own kingdom

Fungi are not plants

They have a cell wall like plants, but…..

Plants make their own food (sugars) from light

Fungi are more like animals than like plants

Fungi

Absorb food from plants or other substrates (things they grow on)

They are Heterotrophs

Fungi

- Asexual – 1 parent

- Reproduce with spores or budding

- Sexual – 2 parents

- produce with spores/fruiting bodies

Alexander Fleming –accidental discovery

Discovered a blue-green mold killed the staphylococcus in his lab. It was the antibiotic penicillin

Some are Parasites!

Dutch Elm Disease

Athletes Foot

Yeasts are a type of fungus

Yeasts grow by budding

Yeasts are present almost everywhere

Budding yeasts

Yeasts

Do not make their own food with photosynthesis

Use food and give off carbon dioxide (CO2) through respiration

This is how yeast

makes bread rise

Other types of fungi grow with hyphae – hairlike strands

Hyphae are strands

that are much smaller

than human hair.

When you peel away

bark from a dead,

fallen tree, white

hyphae are sometimes

visible.

Mushrooms are another type of fungi

Forest fungi have many ecological roles

Diverse Plant pathogen

Decomposer Food Source

Tree/Plant helper Some Poisonous

MushroomsAnatomy

Cap

Stipe

Hymenium

(gills, pores, teeth,

smooth)

We use these

features to ID

mushrooms

Conks

Woody

Sign of decay

Cups, Puffballs, Earthstars

Kingdom Fungi is a diverse

kingdom!

Microscopy Photographs