KINGDOM FUNGI

Whittaker's 5 Kingdoms

Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Monera

Fungi Characteristics

1. Heterotrophic

2. Extracellular Digestion

3. Chitin-Based Cell wall

4. Most fungi are made up of filaments called Hyphae

5. Saphrophytes

6. Lacks Chlorophyll

7. Unicellular, Filamentous

8. Spore Bearing

9. Eukaryotic

Saphrophytes (Decomposers)

organisms that feed off dead animals, insects, and leaves.

Chitin

A structural polysaccharide, consisting of amino sugar monomers, found in many fungal cell walls and in the exoskeletons of all arthropods.

Hyphae

The branching, threadlike tubes that make up the bodies of multicellular fungi

Unicellular fungi reproduce:

asexually

Mulit-cellular fungi reproduce

asexually and sexually

Stolon

a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

horizontal hyphae

Rhizoids

A thin, rootlike structure that anchors a moss and absorbs water and nutrients.

Mycelium

densely branched network of the hyphae of a fungus

cell wall of fungi

chtin and glucan