Fungi (Moulds)

• Macroscopic fungi- fleshy fungi with visible fruiting bodies; mushrooms
• Microscopic Fungi- unicellular yeasts

  multicellular thread-like moulds

  some part may be seen with the naked eye, other parts are microscopic
• Classified in the Kingdom Fungi
• Yeasts are Unicellular

  Mushrooms and moulds are multicellular
• True nuclei and are eukaryotic
• Cell walls consisting of chitin
• fungi consist of mass of branched filaments or hyphae
• Fungi have no chlorophyll, therefore heterotrophic
• Most fungi are saprophytic and live off dead organic plant and animal matter, e.g bread and mushrooms
• Some are parasites and feed of living material, e.g fungus causing athlete's foot
• Some live mutualistically with other organisms, mutually beneficial
• Unicellular fungi- asexually by binary fission
• Multicellular fungi- asexually by means of spores during favourable conditions

  Sexually by means of gametes during unfavourable conditions