FUNGUS

HOW FUNGI OBTAIN FOOD

• Fungi eat other organisms to obtain energy
• They eat living and nonliving organisms
• They obtain food through decomposition
• Fungi gets nutrients by decomposing organisms

STRUCTURE OF FUNGI

• Made up of branching, colorless threads called hyphae
• Hyphae contains walls, called septa, which divide them into separate cells
• When dense, hyphae is known as mycelium