ECOL 170C1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lignin, Fermented Milk Products, Soy Sauce
15 Feb 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
More closely related to animals than plants though. Fungal cells are surrounded by cell walls. Cell walls made of chitin, not cellulose like plants. Also found in exoskeleton of arthropods, fish scales. Can be tiny and unicellular or multicellular and enormous. Often grow as cylindrical, thread-like structures called hyphae. One in oregon that covers 3. 7 square miles, 2. They digest and absorb material from other organisms. Unlike animals, they usually secrete digestive enzymes and digest material outside of the cell instead of inside their bodies, they absorb the broken down molecules into their cells. Others have mutualistic relationships with other organisms. Fungus controls brain of ant to leave colony and chill on a lead. There are about 100,000 formally described species. Microsporidian fungi are unicellular parasites of animals that are often unique to each host. (there may be as many microsporidian species as animal species) Many species of fungi live inside plant cells.
