Fungi
Are they helpful or harmful?
Traits of Fungi
• Most fungi have cells with a cell wall and
more than one nucleus
• Most are
Traits of Fungi
• They are either:
– Saprobes – feed on material from previously
living things (shoes, dead trees, dead animals
etc.) or
– Parasites – which eat or derive there energy
from living things.
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Traits of Fungi
• To reproduce, they
– send out spores instead of seeds.
– Carry pieces of broken hyphae to new places
– Form Buds in which a small part of the parent
grows into a new organism.
Traits of Fungi
• Most are multicellular
• Some like yeasts are unicellular
Examples of Fungi
• Bread Mold
Examples of Fungus
• Moldy Fruit
Examples of Fungus
• Tree Fungus
Kinds of Fungi
• Sporangia-produce spores at the end of
treelike structures called hyphae. (ex.
Hyphae)
Kinds of Fungi
• Club Fungi - have hyphae that form
branches underground. They have club
shaped parts that produce spores.
Kinds of Fungi
• Sac Fungi – produce spores in sac-like
structures.
Helpful Fungi
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Food – mushrooms
Used to make cheese – Blue Cheese
Used to make wine, beer, and whiskey (Yeast)
Used to make bread rise
Used to make soy sauce from soy beans
Used to break down materials and recycle
wastes and dead organisms
• Used to make certain drugs (ex. Penicillin)
Mushrooms
Blue Cheese
Wine, Beer, and Whiskey
Soy Sauce
Decaying Tree
Penicillin
Harmful Fungus
• Cause food spoilage
• Cause plant disease such as rusts, Dutch
Elm Disease, and mildew
• Cause Human diseases such as Ring
Worm, Athlete’s Foot, Thrush, lung
Infections, and Yeast Infections
• Destroy leather, fabrics, plastics, etc.
Food Spoilage
Dutch Elm Disease
Ringworm
Athlete’s Foot
Thrush
Fungal Lung Infection
Yeast Infections
Fungus Destroying Leather