FUNGUS

FUNGUS EAT

• Fungus absorb nutrients
• Get nutrients from living or dead organic organisms
• They are heterotrophs
• They obtain material from their external sources their environment

WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE

• They basically look like mushrooms
• They have hyphae they are fine branches
• Hyphae groups together to make mycelium
• Mycelium is like web tangled up

HOW DO THEY REPRODUCE?

• They reproduce asexual and sexual
• Asexual bits of the hyphae breaks of and grows separate
• Sexual 2 different mating hyphae attaches
• Sexual can mate by fussing together and makes spore stalk

THERE ARE MANY EXAMPLES OF FUNGI

• Rust
• Smut
• Mushrooms
• Morrels
• Truffles and yeast