Fungi
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- Lichen
- Symbiotic association between fungus and a photosynthetic algae.
- Phylum Basidiomycota
- Club fungi
- Chitin
- Carbohydrates making up fungi cell walls.
- Pathogenic Fungi
- Fungi that produces disease in other organisms.
- Hyphae
- Threadlike filaments making up mycelium
- Basidia
- Club-shaped structures on the underside of club fungi where spores form.
- Budding
- Asexual reproduction where new organism pinches off the parents.
- Mycelium
- Network of filaments.
- Haustoria
- Specialized filaments of parasitic fungi that grow into host cells.
- Parasitic Fungi
- Fungi that absorb small nutrients from the cells of living hosts.
- Ascus
- Sac-like structure where sexual spores of fungi develop.
- Mycorrhiza
- Symbiotic association between a plant and fungi.
- Phylum Ascomycota
- Sac fungi
- Saprophytes
- Organisms that obtain their nutrients from dead organic matter.
- Phylum Zygomycota
- Zygote fungi
- Phylum Chytridiomycota
- Water-dwelling fungi; chytrids