1. Lesson 5.6 Fungi
Characteristics:
Belong to Kingdom Fungi
Includes mushroom, molds, lichen,
yeast and mildew
Nonvascular
Lack chlorophyll
Depend on other organisms for food
(heterotrophs, most saprophytes)

2. Lesson 5.6 Fungi
Characteristics:
Most multicelled except yeast
Have filaments that make up the body called
hyphae
Hyphae together make up the main body
called the mycelium

3. Lesson 5.6 Fungi
Terms:
Heterotrophs – organisms that can
not produce their own food.
Autotrophs – organisms that can
make their own food.
Saprophytes – get nutrients from
dead organisms

4. Lesson 5.6 Fungi
Terms:
Mycologist – scientist who studies
fungi

5. Lesson 5.6 Fungi
Importance of Fungi:
Great decomposers
Some parasitic
Yeast important to bread making
Mushrooms people like to eat
Penicillin – important class of
antibiotics

6. Lesson 5.6 Fungi
Types of fungi:
1. Club Fungi
 Produce spores in microscopic club-
shaped structures called basidia
 Includes mushrooms, toadstools,
rust and smuts
 Saprophytes
 Many edible

8. Lesson 5.6 Fungi
Types of fungi:
1. Club Fungi
 Many rust and smuts cause great
crop damage ex. Wheat rust and
corn smut
2. Molds
 Ex. Bread mold, cheese mold
 Penicillin comes from Penicillium
mold
 Some harmful to crops

10. Lesson 5.6 Fungi
Types of fungi:
1. Club Fungi
2. Molds
3. Sac Fungi
 Have saclike spore-producing
structures
 Ex. Yeast and mildew
 Carry out alcoholic fermentation
produce CO2 makes bread rise

11. Lesson 5.6 Fungi
Types of fungi:
1. Club Fungi
2. Molds
3. Sac Fungi
 Reproduces by budding when
conditions are good and spores
called ascus when conditions bad
and can remain dormant.

12. Lesson 5.6 Fungi
Types of fungi:
1. Club Fungi
2. Molds
3. Sac Fungi
4. Slime molds
 Jellylike organisms found on bark
of fallen trees
 Brightly colored (bright red,
yellow, orange)
 Eat bacteria or other organic stuff

14. Lesson 5.6 Fungi
Types of fungi:
1. Club Fungi
2. Molds
3. Sac Fungi
4. Slime molds
5. Lichens
 Symbiotic relationship between
algae and fungus
 Algae is photosynthetic and
provides food
 Fungus provides water and
minerals for algae