What are the 5 Characteristics of the Fungi Kingdom?

Answer 1

Fungi generally have the following characteristics:

1. They are eukaryotes. This means they have a nucleus which contains their genetic material (unlike bacteria, which do not have a nucleus).

2. They are made of thin threads called hyphae. The hyphae form a branching network called a mycelium.However some fungi are made of a single cell eg yeast.

3. The hyphae have a cell wall (like plant cells) made of a material called chitin (unlike plant

cells).

4. The hyphae are often multinucleate. This means that the cytoplasm is not divided up into separate cells, but contins many individual nuclei.

5. Fungi do not contain chlorophyll, the green pigment found in plant cells. This means they cannot make their own food by photosynthesis (like plants do) but have to obtain ready-made food (like animals do).

6. Most fungi are saprotrophic (also called saprophytic), which means they obtain their food by releasing digestive enzymes onto the food and then absorbing the digested food. Some fungi live as parasites on other living organisms and get their food from their host. Others live as mutualists, forming a close relationship with another organism in which both benefit eg lichens are formed by a mutualistic relationship between fungi and algae.

Answer 2

Kingdom Fungi has characteristics that identifies it. The organisms in this kingdom are eukaryotic, heterotrophic, reproduce by means of spores that might be asexual or sexual and they are non-vascular.

Answer 3

Characteristics of Kingdom Fungi are-

• With other eukaryotes: As other eukaryotes, fungal cells contain membrane-boundnuclei with chromosomesthat contain DNA withnoncoding regions called introns and coding regions called exons. In addition, fungi possess membrane-bound cytoplasmicorganellessuch as mitochondria, sterol-containing membranes, and ribosomes of the 80S type. They have a characteristic range of soluble carbohydrates and storage compounds, including sugar alcohols (e.g., mannitol), disaccharides, (e.g., trehalose), andpolysaccharides(e.g., glycogen, which is also found in animals.
• With animals: Fungi lack chloroplastsand are heterotrophicorganisms, requiring preformed organic compounds as energy sources.
• With plants: Fungi possess a cell wall and vacuolesThey reproduce by both sexual and asexual means, and like basal plant groups (such as ferns and mosses) produce spores. Similar to mosses and algae, fungi typically have haploidnuclei.
• With euglenoidsand bacteria: Higher fungi, euglenoids, and some bacteria produce the amino acidL-lysine in specific biosynthesissteps, called the α-aminoadipate pathway.
• The cells of most fungi grow as tubular, elongated, and thread-like (filamentous) structures and are called hyphae, which may contain multiple nuclei and extend at their tips. Each tip contains a set of aggregated vesicles-cellular structures consisting ofproteins, lipids, and other organic molecules-called Spitzenkörper. Both fungi and oomycetesgrow as filamentous hyphal cells.[In contrast, similar-looking organisms, such as filamentous green algae, grow by repeated cell division within a chain of cells.
• In common with some plant and animal species, more than 60 fungal species display the phenomenon of bioluminescence

Unique features:

• Some species grow as single-celled yeasts that reproduce by budding or binary fission. Dimorphic fungi can switch between a yeast phase and a hyphal phase in response to environmental conditions.
• The fungal cell wall is composed of glucansand chitin; while the former compounds are also found in plants and the latter in the exoskeletonof arthropods, fungi are the only organisms that combine these two structural molecules in their cell wall. In contrast to plants and the oomycetes, fungal cell walls do not contain cellulose.

Answer 4

1. fungi are Eukaryotic organisms.
2. All fungi have characteristic tubular body known as Mycelium(except yeast which is a non-hyphal unicellular fungi)
3. All fungi nuclei are haploid.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

club, sac, and zygote fungi

Answer 7

decomposition and paratism

Answer 8

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