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What is a fungi?
Fungi is the word used to describe a whole group of organisms, just like "animals", "plants" or "bacteria". In fungi we can find mushrooms, toadstools, yeasts, molds and more.… According to the newest classification, fungi are eukaryotic (genetic material surrounded by a membrane, i.e nucleus), haploid (only one set of cromosomes) or diploid (two sets of cromosomes) that make zygotic meiosis. Fungi are conjugating organisms, they fuse their cells in an arrengement called hypha. All the cell walls in fungi are primarily built with a molecule called chitin, but some have cellulose (like plants and some algae). All fungi reproduce by spores, all of them posses an asexual phase, but not every fungi is known to posses sexual phase. Also, fungi lack an autotrophic metabolism, instead, all fungi are heterochemiotrophic organisms, that is, they use organic and, minorly, inorganic molecules to produce their energy. Fungus (plural) refers to any member of a group of eukaryotic organisms like yeasts and molds ( Full Answer )