FUNGI

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Medical Microbiology

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Living Organisms

by Amrit Sidhu

Living Organisms

by Amrit Sidhu

Fungi

by Krishna Kasabwala

FUNGI

Together with bacteria, fungi are responsible for breaking down organic matter and releasing carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus into the soil and the atmosphere. Fungi are essential to many household and industrial processes, notably the making of bread, wine, beer, and certain cheeses.

Humans use fungi for many purposes, including as food or in the preparation of food. Humans also use fungi for pest control. In addition, fungi can be used to produce citric acid, antibiotics, and human hormones. Fungi are model research organisms as well

Fungi are eukaryotic organisms both unicellular and multicellular. Fungi are said to be cosmopolitan organisms because they can live anywhere as long as they have the appropriate environmental humidity level. Fungi are included in their own kingdom because they have the privilege of being unable to carry out photosynthesis but are also not heterotrophic organisms such as animals.

Fungi get their food saprophytic, which means that they process nutrients from the remains of other living things or also directly take nutrients from their host (parasitic). Some of the body structures are microscopic and some are microscopic. Fungi have cells built from chitin.

Characteristics Of Fungi

-Fungi are eukaryotic, non-vascular, non-motile and heterotrophic organisms. -They may be unicellular or filamentous. -They reproduce by means of spores. -Fungi exhibit the phenomenon of alternation of generation. -Fungi lack chlorophyll and hence cannot perform photosynthesis.

Example Disadvantages Of Fungi

Fungi are increasingly linked to myriad human ailments, such as allergic and asthmatic diseases that affect millions of people. Fungi cause over a million eye infections every year, many of which result in blindness.

What Are The 4 Major Groups Of Fungi?

There are four major groups of fungi: Zygomycota, Ascomycota (sac fungi), Basidiomycota (club fungi), and Deuteromycota (fungi imperfecti). The fungal group Zygomycota is most frequently encountered as common bread molds, although both freshwater and marine species exist.

Structure Of Fungi

A typical fungus consists of a mass of branched, tubular filaments enclosed by a rigid cell wall. The filaments, called hyphae (singular hypha), branch repeatedly into a complicated, radially expanding network called the mycelium, which makes up the thallus, or undifferentiated body, of the typical fungus.

What Are Fungi?

A fungus is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.