Do fungi spend most of its life cycle as a dipliod of a hapliod organism?

Answer 1

Fungi are haploid meaning that there is only one copy of each chromosome. Basically, they have no extra copy of each gene. Humans are diploids because we have two copies of chromosomes in case of a defect.

This might be the general case, but I know that yeast, a unicellular fungi, can exist as a diploid. This happens when two haploid cells "mate" and basically fuse together.

Answer 2

Fungi have both a haploid and diploid stage in their lifetime

Answer 3

Typically spores are haploid. However, this depends on the fungus and the life cycle stage of the fungus.

Answer 4

haploid (n)