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Why do fungi form spores? What the the different types of fungal spores?-Explain how they are formed.

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Why do fungi form spores? What the the different types of fungal spores?-Explain how they are formed.

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Fungi can reproduce sexually and asexually. Some fungi reproduce both sexually and asexually while some fungi only reproduce asexually (by mitosis).

In both sexual and asexual reproduction produce spores and are dispersed from the parent organism either by wind or carried by animals/insects. Fungal spores are small and lighter than seeds.

Spores allows the fungi to increase their distribution and colonise new environment.

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What are the industrial application of fungi?

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What are the industrial application of fungi?

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Mycelium is a vast network of threads called hyphae. The mycelium can be applied as a 'glue'. One entrepreneur discovered this and used it as a kind of packaging and can eventually become an eco-friendly alternative to some plastics (e.g. Styrofoam).

It was also discovered that mushroom mycelium have the ability to breakdown large molecules into smaller ones that are very useful for other members in the ecological community (bioremediation). These different properties of decomposition can be used for breaking down toxic waste.

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Good attempt- Go through Jonathan question 1

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It has been identified that there are 100,000 species of fungi and are customarily divided into four phyla:

Zygomycota

Ascomycota

Basidiomycota,

Deuteromycota.

Zygomycota includes black bread mold and molds,  that form important symbiotic relationships with plants.

Ascomycota includes yeasts, the powdery mildews, the black and blue-green molds, edible types such as the morel and the truffle, and species that cause such diseases of plants as Dutch elm disease, chestnut blight, apple scab, and ergot.

Basidiomycota includes the gill fungi (most mushrooms), the pore fungi (e.g., the bracket fungi, which grow shelflike on trees, and an edible type called tuckahoe), and the puffballs. It also includes the fungi that cause smut and rust in plants.

Deuteromycota comprises a miscellaneous assortment of fungi that do not not fit neatly in other divisions; they have in common an apparent lack of sexual reproductive features.

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How would you describes the structure of a fungi?

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How would you describes the structure of a fungi?

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Fungi are made up of hyphae which are fine, branching and usually colourless threads. Each fungus will have a vast network of hyphae, all intertwining to make a tangled web called the mycelium. Essentially, the mycelium are the 'root system' of the fungi, it is a complex series of feeding tubes. Its size can be very large, in fact it can extend for miles. The largest mycelium recorded spreads across 2,384 acres in Oregon's Blue Mountain and is called Armillaria mellea and is thought to be 2,000 years old.

The hyphae of most fungi are divided into cells by internal walls which are called septa. They have walls made up of chitin instead of cellulose like those of plants.

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How are fungi different to plants and animals?

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How are fungi different to plants and animals?

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Fungi are neither plants nor animals. They belong to their separate kingdom, the Fungi. Fungi is a diverse kingdom and shares many characteristics. They are eukaryotic, heterotrophic (they can either be saprophytic or parasitic), most are multicellular, they have cell walls made up of chitin and most fungi are microscopic molds or yeasts.

The basic difference between fungi and plants is that fungi lack chloroplasts which means they are unable to undergo photosynthesis. Fungi also produce spores instead of seeds and fungi does not have leaves or roots like plants do.

Animals and fungi have more similarities. They are both heterotrophic. However, fungi secrete enzymes to externally digest food and then absorb the nutrients while animals ingest food and internally digest it followed by absorbing the nutrients.