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The Eumycota are fungi that thrive on the dead tissues of plants and animals. They get their nutrients from decomposed matter and store them as energy.
It grows and lives on a host. Since the host provides the nutrients for life and the fungus grows off of that, it makes it a parasite. more info http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parasite
Some fungi are parasites and some parasites are fungi, but many fungi are not parasites and many parasites are not fungi.
Fungi thrive in swamps like in Phallic Fungi of the Great Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey.
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one place fungi would not likely thrive would be in the desert because fungi only lives in wet places
RINGWORM is in fact not a parasite, but a fungi. The scientific term for Ringworm is "Tinea" which means "growing worm". (thus here is the origin of the worm part of ringworm, ring is obviously the shape in which the fungi grows, in a circle) It is a common mistake to think that ringworm is a parasite. but it is in fact a fungi.
The Eumycota are fungi that thrive on the dead tissues of plants and animals. They get their nutrients from decomposed matter and store them as energy.
It grows and lives on a host. Since the host provides the nutrients for life and the fungus grows off of that, it makes it a parasite. more info http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parasite
Some fungi are parasites and some parasites are fungi, but many fungi are not parasites and many parasites are not fungi.
Fungi thrive in swamps like in Phallic Fungi of the Great Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey.
It can be either. An extremophile is an organism that is able to grow, and thrive, in extreme environments.
bacteria virus fungi and parasite
No, there are many species of fungi all over the planet. They live in conditions that are very different. From rotting wood, to inside the human body!
no because fungi are decomposers meaning they only eat dead organisms and parasites are organisms that benefit as another organism is harmed There are a good number of parasitic fungi in basidiomycitese like rusts and smuts.