Kingdom: Fungi “mushrooms and molds” Evolved over 600 mya Mainly saprobes - break down carbon compounds from dead organic material and return C and other minerals back to nature.
Kingdom: Fungi “mushrooms and molds”
Evolved over 600 myaMainly saprobes - break down carbon
compounds from dead organic material and return C and other minerals back to nature.
Kingdom: Fungi “mushrooms and molds”
Mainly saprobes - break down carbon compounds from dead organic material and return C and other minerals back to nature.
Some mutualistic with plants and algae. Lichen
Mycorrhiza
Kingdom: Fungi “mushrooms and molds”
Mainly saprobes - break down carbon compounds from dead organic material and return C and other minerals back to nature.
Some mutualistic with plants and algae.Some are parasitic. Pathogenic:
ringwormathlete’s footCandidaCorn smut
Kingdom: Fungi “mushrooms and molds”
Mainly saprobes - break down carbon compounds from dead organic material and return C and other minerals back to nature.
Some mutualistic with plants and algae.
Some are parasitic. pathogenic
Some are partial predators.
Kingdom: Fungi “mushrooms and molds”
Evolved from a Protist ancestor >600 mya
Fungi Protist Ancestor Animals
Plants
Characteristics of Fungi
1. Heterotrophic with absorptive nutrition.
Mycelium - large mass of hyphae. Multinucleated SA/V
Characteristics of Fungi
1. Heterotrophic with absorptive nutrition.
2. Cell walls of chitin - complex polysaccharide (N).
3. All Fungi produce spores. (Asexual)
4. Reproduce sexually in a variety of ways. (Fungi imperfecti are a diverse group of fungi are only known to reproduce asexually.)
5. Tolerance for highly hypertonic environments and extreme cold & hot environments.
Phylum: Chytridiomycota “Chytrids”
1. Aquatic (mostly fresh water or moist soil) 2. Either parasitic or saprobic. 3. Male and female gametangea (n) are produced at
the tip of hyphae (2n) in sexual reproduction. Meiosis --> haploid
haploid gametes (n) female & male both flagellated
female produces pheromone
Phylum: Chytridiomycota “Chytrids”
Haploid gametes (n)
female & male both flagellated
female produces pheromone
gametes fuse to produce zygote (2n)
Mitosis gives rise to (2n) organism
flagelated zoospores (2n) are produced - land on food source grow hyphae and produce gametangia
Phylum: Chytridiomycota “Chytrids”
1. Aquatic (mostly fresh water or moist soil)
2. Either parasitic or saprobic.
3. Male and female gametangea are produced at the tip of hyphae in sexual reproduction. Haploid ……….
4. Chytrids are the only Phylum of Fungi that have motile (flagellated) cells!
5. Do not have dikaryotic hyphae.
Phylum: Zygomycota
1. Have coenocytic hyphae (n) only. Release pheromones
2. No motile cells. 3. Zygote is the only true diploid cell. Zygospores
(2n)
Phylum: Zygomycota
1. Most have coenocytic hyphae (n) – no septa. Release pheromones.
2. No motile cells. 3. Zygote is the only true diploid cell. Mitosis----> Zygospores (2n) 4. Zygospores--meiosis--> Haploid stalked
sporangium(n)--> haploid (n) spores--> no septate hyphae. “black bread mold” Rhizopus stolonifer
most mycorrhiza
Phylum: Ascomycota
1. Many are unicellular and reproduce by budding - asexual (n) or (2n)
(Baker’s and Brewer’s yeast)
2. Some coenocytic with septa. Fusion of different (n) mating type cells--> Dikaryon - ascus - zygote (2n)--> --> meiosis--> ascospore (n) formation (sexual)
Phylum: Ascomycota
3. Conidia (n) form at tips of multnucleated hyphae (n) – asexual --> spores (n) “Euascomycetes”
Phylum: Ascomycota
4. Multinucleated forms may have dikaryon (heterkaryon) hyphae 1n + 1n. Molds Neurospora “pink mold” Penicillium “green mold” “chestnut blight” & “Dutch Elm Disease” “truffles” “morels”
Phylum: Basidiomycota
1. Elaborate Fruiting structures.2. All have septate hyphae (pores).3. All have basidia - swollen cells at the
tips of hyphae for sexual reproduction.4. Have dikaryotic hyphae.
Basidiomycota
Chlorophyllum Green-Spored Lepiota Sp, Su, F
Omphalotus Jack -O’-Lantern Sp, Su, F
MMH