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what is the kingdom fungi?. Richard Harland Miss. Brown 1258. Notes on kingdom fungi. Kingdom fungi has cell walls. They are also multicelluar organisms. Like more plants they grow well in good soil. Fungi was once classified in the plant kingdom.
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what is the kingdom fungi? Richard Harland Miss. Brown 12\05\08
Notes on kingdom fungi • Kingdom fungi has cell walls. • They are also multicelluar organisms. • Like more plants they grow well in good soil. • Fungi was once classified in the plant kingdom. • Fungi gets there food from dead organisms. • Fungi usually grow in wet warm or dark places. • Has a stalk to hold up the umbrella and produce food. • Not really different from mushrooms
mushrooms • Stem is called a stalk. • Top looks like an umbrella . • The gills produce spores. • Threadlike structure called hypha. • Light in weight.
molds • Common kind of fungi. • Grow on bread fruit vegetables and leather. • Looks like mass of thread. • Not divided in separate cells. • Not closely packed together.
yeasts • Colorless. • unicelluar (only 1 cell). • Has a cell membrane. • Has a cell wall. • Uses sugar for food . • Grow where sugar is present. • Breaks down sugar bubbles and carbon dioxide. • Causes dough to rise.
Key terms. • Stalk- stem like part of a mushroom. • Cap- umbrella-shaped top of a mushroom. • Hypha- threadlike structure that makes up the body of mold and mushrooms. • Gills- structure in a a mushroom that produces spores. • Spores- reproductive structure in a fungi. • Fermentation- process in witch a cell releaces energy from food without using oxygen.
? • They are the same in many ways except mold can grow on bread vegtables ,leather. • mushrooms grow in soil.
Fermentation • A type of celluar resperation that takes place without oxygen.
? • What is the job of the stalk of a mushroom?
? • To hold it up and produce food.
? • In dark warm and wet places.
? • Why can’t fungi make it’s own food? • Is it poisonous?
Answers • Why can’t fungi make its own food? • It’s not actually a plant. • Is it poisons? • Some fungi can cause infection.