Fungi


The study of the fungi is called mycology. The fungi are a smaller, less well known group than the plants or the animals. They are generally plantlike or microbial in appearance and behavior, but at the biochemical level are more akin to the animals, and a well-established classification groups them in a separate kingdom from either.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Science Biology Systematics

The study of the fungi is called mycology.

The fungi are a smaller, less well known group than the plants or the animals. They are generally plantlike or microbial in appearance and behavior, but at the biochemical level are more akin to the animals, and a well-established classification groups them in a separate kingdom from either.

Deuteromycota

This is not considered a proper systematic category. Fungi are normally classified by their manner of sexual reproduction, and these are without that ability. These are often reclassified as one of the other groups.

Lichens

These are symbiotic colonial organisms, consisting of a fungal host, which forms most of the body, and a symbiont which is capable of photosynthesis, which means one of the cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), or the algae

Chytridiomycota

Chytrids. Not really well described

Zygomycota

These include the bread molds.

Ascomycetes

These include the yeasts and sac fungi.

Basidiomycetes

These are the club fungi, including mushrooms as familiar examples.


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