How many steps are in the fungus life cycle?

Answer 1

Basics

• Fungi are very similar to plants in their nature; they grow often in soil, require moisture, and are primarily incapable of movement. However, they have many characteristics that distinguish them from both plants and animals. Their vast disparity in size is one example; some fungi are composed of but a single cell that reproduces via binary fission while others can be enormous, taking up entire fields. Unlike plants, which contain cellulose in their cell walls, fungi utilize a combination of chitin and glucans. Their lifestyles and cycles can also be very dissimilar.

Birth

• Most of the more common fungi use spores for reproduction. Mature fungi release these spores and they subsequently begin to divide and eventually form a structure called hyphae, which are thread-like roots made of haploid cells. When hyphae meet from two different spores, they intertwine and form one cell with two distinct nuclei.

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