3. Kingdom Fungi
• They do not have chlorophyll in their cells.
• Fungi nourishes themselves by absorption.
• They do these by secreting enzymes that
facilitate digestion outside their bodies.
• The enzymes break down the decaying matter
into absorbable nutrients which fungi can now
use.
• This is the reason why you often see fungi on
tree logs and spoiled food.
4. • Fungi have threadlike parts called hyphae (singular:
hypha)( is a long, branching filamentous structure of
a fungus, and also of unrelated Actinobacteria. In most
fungi, hyphae are the main mode of vegetative
growth, and are collectively called
a mycelium; yeasts are unicellular fungi that do not grow
as hyphae.)
6. • Examples of fungi are mushrooms, molds and
yeasts. Some mushrooms are edible, such as
oyster mushrooms and button mushrooms;
while some are poisonous such as Galerina and
Amanita.
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• Bread molds, when seen under the
microscope, are made up of fuzzy balls of
spores called mycelia. The first antibiotic
penicillin was extracted by Alexander Fleming
from a genus of fungi called Penicillium.
