BIOL 1011 Lecture 7: Bio 1011 1.7
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Examples of fungi and their products: bread, pizza crust (rising by baker"s yeist), mold on bread. Ringworm, athlete"s foot, mushrooms, and alcohol and flavours. Fungi are everywhere, there are spores everywhere all the time. Heterotrophs: their cannot make their own food, they have to eat (like animals). There is no such thing as a photosynthetic fungi. Main body is haploid: no matter what fungus you are looking at, the nuclei are haploid, whether it is unicellular or multicellular. Cell wall made of chitin (a polysaccharide) (note that chitin is also the outside of spiders, insects ) External digestion of food: they tend to live in thing they eat (like a log) Basic unit of a fungus is the hypha (plur. Asexual and reproductive growth happening all the time. Most of the bodies of fungi are somewhere you wouldn"t think. Hyphae come together in a mass called a mycelium, which is the main mass of the fungus" body.