- Yeast, mould and mushrooms are all fungi. Fungi are often multi-cellular with a mycelium (body) of feeding hyphae.
Structure of Fungi:
- Fungi require food, warmth and moisture to grow and reproduce.
- Some are aerobic, others are anaerobic.
- The body of a fungus consists of hyphae, fine thread like structures that spread through the surface the fungus is living on.
- Fungi produces spores which grow in a spore head or sporangium. Mature sporangia burst releasing large number of spores into the air.
- Spores grow into new fungi
- There are saprotrophic/saprophytic fungi and parasitic fungi.