TOPIC 01-CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING THINGS
KINGDOM FUNGI
Member of the kingdom fungi include fairly familiar organism. Such as Mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls and bracket fungi.
There are also less obvious but very important members such as Mould which grow on bread, ripe fruits and other foods.
Characteristics of fungi:
Fungi are found in damp or wet places.
They have Eukaryotic cells with a rigid protected cell wall made of chitin (chitin contain polysaccharides and protein).
The body of fungi is organized into thread like structure called hyphae (singular hypha). A network mass of hyphae is called mycelium.
Fungi have no chlorophyll also they do not photosynthesize, their mode of feeding is heterotrophic, in this way some are saprophytic while others are parasitic.
They store food as glycogen
Fungi reproduce asexually by using spores.
PHYLUM IN KINGDOM FUNGI
There are three main phyla in kingdom fungi. These are;
Ascomycota
Zygomycota
Basidiomycota
Phylum Basidiomycota
Basidiomycota are characterized by the production of basidia.
These are microscopic of club shaped cell in which maturation of spore called (basidiospore) take place. Nature spore are prepared then are dispersed.
Examples of Basidiomycota are mushrooms, toadstool, puff balls and bracket fungi