BIOL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Chytridiomycota, Glomeromycota, Zygomycota
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Biol 110 - lecture 20 - fungi phyla. The modern fungal kingdom has been divided into six major phyla. Members are called chytrids and are the most primitive members of the fungal kingdom. Most are aquatic, and thus are sometimes referred to as water fungi . Most members are saprobes, but some are parasites of animals, plants, or protists. Saprobes - decomposers that absorb nutrients from dead organic matter. Characterized by having absorptive nutrition, and can have septate or coenocytic mycelium, or be unicellular. Important morphologically because they possess flagellated spores. Recent addition to the fungal kingdom based on molecular data. Members are intracellular parasites of animals or protists that mainly affect invertebrates. Do not have mitochondria and have no locomotion. Were originally classified as protists with modified mitochondria called. Human microsporidiosis usually affects those with compromised immune systems. Members are called zygomycetes and most are terrestrials that exists as saprobes in soil. Characterized by zygosporangium, a specific life cycle.