Kingdom Fungi
- Fungi is unique kingdom
- Fungi have great diversity in mythology and habitat.
- Fungi are Cosmopolitan which occur in air, water, soil and on animal and plant .
- Mostly fungi are heterotrophic and observed nutrition .(saprophytes)
- Unicellular fungi are Yeast.
- Cell wall of fungi composed of chitin and polysaccharide.
- Fungi in reproduction are vegetative ,asexual and sexual reproduction.
- Mushroom and toad stools are also fungi and you eat.
- body structure are long ,slender and thread like structure called hyphae.
- Network of hyphae is called is known as mycelium .
- Fungi are saprophyte and parasite .
- Fungi are associated with algae known as lichen.
- Fungi are associate with roots of higher plants known as Mycorrhiza. Wheat rust cause Puccinia.
Asexual reproduction by spores called
- Sporangiospores
- Zoospores.
- Conidia
Sexual cycle three step
(1) Fusion of protoplasm between two motile or non motile gamates called plasmogamy.
(2) fusion of two nuclei called karyogamy .
(3). Meiosis in zygote resulting in haploid
Spores.
Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes are intervening Dikaryotic stage ( n+n two nuclei per cell) Found,
This condition is called dikaryophase.
Division of fungi Kingdom
on the basis of the
- morphology of mycelium
- mode of spore formation and
- fruiting body Division into various classes.
- Phycomycetes
- Ascomycetes
- Basidiomycetes
- Deuteromycetes.
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