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Kingdom Fungi ( ch . 26) If at first you don’t like a fungus … Just wait a little, It will grow on you. . Mycology = study of fungi General Characteristics of Fungi Classification into Phyla / Divisions based on Sexual Reproductive Structures Effects on Humans – Diseases & Benefits
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Kingdom Fungi (ch. 26)If at first you don’t like a fungus …Just wait a little, It will grow on you. Mycology = study of fungi General Characteristics of Fungi Classification into Phyla / Divisions based on Sexual Reproductive Structures Effects on Humans – Diseases & Benefits * You should know all examples *
General Characteristics of Fungi • Heterotrophic saprophytes (decomposers) release / recycle inorganic nutrients • Reproduce mostly asexually • Haplontic life style – grow from haploid spores • May also be parasitic, predatory, or form other symbioses
General Characteristics of Fungi • Secrete digestive enzymes onto food extracellular digestion absorption of nutrients • Digestive enzymes can digest tough substances, such as cellulose in wood • Cell walls made of chitin, a polysaccharide • Multicellular, except for yeasts (unicellular) • Very efficient nutrient transport in hyphae grow very fast! • Most are poisonous leave it to the experts to pick the fungus on your plate…
Important Symbioses Lichen = alga or cyanobacteria + fungus –> soil formation from rock Mycorrhyzae provide plant roots w/ inorganic nutrients, receive sugars
Fungal Structure - Cells • Hypha = multinucleated, filamentous cell Fragmentation (asexual):new fungus grows from fragment ↓ Septatehyphae (septum = dividing wall) Coenocytichyphae (no septa) Nuclei Nuclei Cell walls made of chitin
Fungal Structure - Body Fruiting body to disperse spores • Mycelium = network of hyphae body of fungus Mycelium of fungus on wood Hyphae Mycelium
“Fairy Rings” are mushrooms (fruiting bodies) that grow at the tips of an underground mycelium:
Generalized Fungal Life Cycle Haploid Spore Producing Structure: Mitosis (n n) /Dikaryotic Sporulation n + n 2n SPEED: MAKE SPORES FAST! RECOMBINATION: GENETIC DIVERSITY 2n n n Sporulation Diploid Spore Producing Structure: Meiosis (2n n)
Basidiomycota “Club Fungi” Basidiomycetes , Ernst Haeckel, 1904
Sexual Reproduction Phylum Basidiomycota“Club” Fungi*Asexual reproduction:fragmentation of septatehyphae and asexual spores Dikaryotic Stage KARYOGAMY n + n 2n PLASMOGAMY Secondary mycelium - mating type + mating type Primary mycelium Meiosis *Basidium = Diploid Spore Producing Structure: Meiosis (2n n) Basidiospores n
Rusts & Smuts Affect Plant Crops Wheat stem rust - Pucciniagraminis Smut fungus on corn
PlylumAscomycota - “Sac” fungi(largest phylum) IncludesPenicilliummold Cup fungi Truffles
Phylum Ascomycota Conidiophore = Haploid Spore Producing Structure: Mitosis (n n) - mating type Ascus = Diploid Spore Producing Structure: Meiosis (2n n) + mating type n + n 2n n
Asexual Reproduction in Yeasts (unicellular ascomycote)Budding YEAST (MOTHER) CELL NEW YEAST CELL
Recent additions to Ascomycota… Athlete’s food & Ringworm
ZygomycotaEx.: black bread mold, Rhizopusstolonifer (asexual)
Phylum Zygomycota - mating type + mating type Zygosporangium = Diploid Spore Producing Structure: Meiosis (2n n) n 2n Sporangium = Haploid Spore Producing Structure: Mitosis (n n)
(informal) Phylum Deuteromycota • “Imperfect Fungi” because only observed to reproduce asexually May be moved to other phyla as research continues…
Predatory FungusNematode-Trapping Fungus Arthrobotrus , a deuteromycete, capturing a round worm (nematode)
Dimorphic Fungi Can exist as mold / hyphal / filamentous form (usually at room temperature) or yeast (body temperature) several potential pathogens: Histoplasmacapsulatum Found in bat and bird feces histoplasmosis; affects mainly lungs, can disseminate through body Candidaalbicans oral and genital infections 25 C 37 C
Benefits • Medicines, including Penicillin, the first antibiotic, isolated from Penicillium fungus • Food: edible mushrooms, moldy cheese , fermentation products (wine, beer), leavened bread (aerobic), etc. • Biotechnology – yeasts used in research, including cloning of genes
Fungal Foods Yeast, sugar, aerobic respiration CO2 makes bread rise Mold on blue cheese NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION!!! Alcoholic fermentation (anaerobic)