FUNGUS

HOW DO FUNGI OBTAIN FOOD?

• Fungi cannot make their own food
• They have enzymes that digest nutrients through decomposition

WHAT IS THEIR STRUCTURE LIKE?

• The body mycelium is grown underground
• It is made up of string like cells they are tangled together
• They also have filaments called hyphae
• The cell walls are made out of chitin

REPRODUCTION

• Fungi can reproduce sexually and asexually
• In sexual reproduction the male and female eggs fuse
• To produce spores inside the body
• And in asexual they simple make little copies of themselves

EXAMPLES OF FUNGI

• Mushrooms/Toadstools
• Athlete's foot
• Yeast