AGRO 2051 Chapter : Agro 2051 6
Document Summary
9-29-14: black bread mold = rhizopus, advantage to sexual reproduction is diversity, helps the species survive and not go extinct, fungi actively choose between dividing asexually and sexually, environments change, fungi think, aw, crap. Life cycle of a zygomycete (rhizopus, black bread mold: zygosporangium = highly resistant spore created by a zygomycete. Some fungi have certain structures that can grow into these roots and absorb nutrients from the plant, specifically carbohydrates (sugars). Excess sugars are stored almost entirely in the roots of the plant: fungi are not photosynthetic, and do not have chloroplasts. Bread, beer, as well as bad yeast such as thrush, vaginal infections: vaginal infections are usually the result of yeast populations going crazy, every time you take antibiotics, you"re attacking the bacteria present there. You can change the overall ecosystem present in your body. If the tree is dead, the fungus is called a saprobe: morels.
