PLANT DIVERSITY

BIOL 3601 – FALL 2004

JULIE ETTERSON

Fungi

Where to fungi fall in the phylogenetic tree?

Are they a monophyletic group?

Were the earliest fungi flagellated? Aquatic?

What is there mode of nutrition?

Ecological requirements?

What anchors fungi to substrate?

What specialized structure absorbs nutrients directly from cells.

Septate vs. ceonocytic hyphae

Cell wall composition

Asexual vs. sexual reproduction.

Three phases of sexual reproduction in fungi

Chytridiomycota

Structure

Ecology

Life cycle

Zygomycota

Structure

Ecology

Life cycle

Ascomycota

Structure

Ecology

Life cycle

Basidiomycota

Structure

Ecology

Life cycle

Deuteromycetes

Structure

Ecology

Life cycle

How are they classified?

What is a yeast?