FUNGUS

OBTAINING FOOD

• Secrete enzymes that digest nutrients
• Decomposition
• Eats dead leaves and dead animals

STRUCTURE

• Main body- hyphae
• Many hyphae intertwine
• This creates the web called the mycelium

REPRODUCTION

• Both sexually and asexually
• Asexually-most common
• Asexual- fungi makes little copies of itself
• Sexual- male and female produce spores

EXAMPLES OF FUNGI

• Yeast infection
• Athlete's foot
• Ring worms