BIOL 1002 : BIOL 1002 Test 2
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The main part is living in the ground. A single clone of the honey mushroom armillaria can cover more than. Fungal structures: mycelium-the feeding network of a fungus. Usually underground or inside a decaying or living organism. Composed of a woven mesh of hypha: hyphea are the threadlike filaments of a fungus. It has a tubular cell wall containing chitin. Chitin=fungus cell wall=plant: cell walls of fungi are composed of chitin: a structural polysaccharide of modified sugars. Polymer w/ glucose subunits and n-containing functional groups. Chitin also makes up insect exoskeletons and fungus cell walls: septa: structures which partially separate the cytoplasm inside the hyphae, found in many fungi, spores-haploid(1n) or diploid 2n cells which can grow directly into a hyphal strand. 3 variations depending on the food type: saprobes: decomposers of dead material (most fungi, parasites: fungi which grow on living organisms (dutch elm disease, corn smut, athletes foot,
