Fungi
Zygomycota
Zygosporangium
(karyogamy and meiosis occur)
Zygospores
Karyogamy( haploid nuclei fuse from two
different parents and produce diploid cells)
multicellular
When conditions are good,
sexual reproduction occurs(meiosis)
and the zygosporangium germinates
into a sporangium
Sporangiophores
(a hypha bearing sporangia)
Zygosporess form in
zygosporangium and
can be shot in certain
types of fungi (ex: pilobolus)
Hyphae are coenocytic (no septate)
septate (cross walls that divide fungi into cells)
Molds
Black Bread Mold (Rhizopus stolonifer)
Rhizoids
(rootlike parts of
hyphae that anchor the fungus)
Stolons
(horizontal hypae that
connect groups of hyphae)
Zygomycetes
Glomeromycota
Form Arbuscular(Endo) mycorrhizae
Arbuscular mycorrhizae
(another word for haustoria
mycorrhizae)
(fungal mycelia penetrate root cells)
Glomeromycetes
Chytridiomycota
Include both multi-cellular and unicellular species
Have cell walls made of chitin
Some form colonies with hyphae, while some are
single spherical cells
Chytrids
Have flagellated spores called zoospores
Characteristics of all Fungi
Fungi that causes diseases
Claviceps purpurea
rye
Fusarium Circinatum
pine
plant pathogens
Cryphonectria parasiticia
chesnut
Practical uses of Fungi
research
alcohol
medicine
food
Reproduction
Sexual
meiosis
spores
Asexual
Mitosis
budding
pinching of cells
yeast
fragmentation
fungi splits into fragments
Hyphae
Pseudohyphae
form by yeasts
incomplete budding causes elongated cells that haven't divided
Budding
Conenocytic
Septate
Mycorrhizae
Ectomycorrhizae
form sheaths of hypae over root
Abuscular
Symbiotic Relationships
Endophytes (fungi that lives in plant leaves or other parts that are beneficial
Are usually Ascomycetes
Absorptive Heterotrops
Enzymes are used to break down a large variety of complex molecules into smaller organic compounds
Lichen
Soridia
small clusters of hyphae with embedded algae
Ascomycete species that live
with green algae or cyanobacteria
in symbiotic relationships
Fruticose
shrublike
Foliose
leaflike
Crustose
grow on rocks
Ascomycota
Neurospora crassa (Bread Mold)
reproduce asexually by producing
by producing conidia spores
Conidia (produced externally at the tips of
specialized hyphae called conidiophores)
Fusion of two different mating
types is followed by plasmogamy
(union of 2 parent mycelia)
dikaryotic cells with
cells at tips develop
into asci
meiosis occurs
then mitosis to produce 8 ascospores
sexual reproduction
Some form Mycorrhizae (mutual relationship with plants)
(mycelia improve delivery of minerals to plants and plants supply fungi with organic nutrients
Symbiotic Relationship (lichen)
Ascocarps
(fruiting body that
holds asci)
Ascus
(sac fungi)
(sacs that contain the
ascospores)
Ascospores
(haploid spores)
(sexaul)
Ascomycetes
Basidiomycota
Parasitic plant parasites
smuts
rusts
Club Fungi
Mushrooms
Puffballs
Subtopic
Shelf Fungi
decomposers break down lignin
(complex polymer in wood)
Basidiocarps
(fruiting bodies that allow
mycellium to reproduce sexually)
After a mushroom forms, cap
supports/protects large dikaryotic basida on gills
Basida
(spore bearing structure)
Basidiospores (meiosis produces 4 haploid nuclei
which develop into a basidiospore)
Gills
(means of spore dispersal)
Fairy Rings (growth is concentrated
in hyphae musrooms pop up in a ring
shape as it absorbs
water and as cytoplasm
streams in from diaryotic mycelium)
Diaryotic mycellium (2 nuclei divide 1
after another without fusing)