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What is the fungi mode of nutrition? |
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Heterotrophic. They secrete enzymes from their bodies onto their food, which digest it internally. The digested materials are then absorbed into the body. |
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What are the three ways we can characterize fungi based on its relationship with its food source? |
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Parasitic (feeds on living host,usually causing harm to that host), saprobe (feeds on dead host), or mutualistic (forms a partnership beneficial to both fungi and host). |
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why are fungi important to the environment? |
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Definition
recycle the products of life, making the products of death available so life may continue. |
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examples of foods we eat that are also fungus: |
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Definition
mushrooms, blue cheese (the blue veins in it), and citric acid. |
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How is the kingdom fungi seperated into phyla? |
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broken into three seperate groups based on structures formed during sexual reproduction. |
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what group do fungi that do not reproduce sexually go in? |
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what are the four phylum of fungi? |
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Phylum Zygomycota, Phylum Ascomycota, phylum Basidiomycota, Imperfect fungi. |
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