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| very aquatic; some live in wet soils; most ancient relative to fungi; can digest cellulose; important decomposers; produce cellulases that can degrade cell walls of grasses; produce sproes that swim to new habitats with flagellum; reproduce sexually/asexually; one of the only fungit hat are capable of alteration of generations |
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chytridiomycota (chytrids) |
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| soil dwellers; hyphae yoke together; live in plant debris; trap their prey bia sticky substances on cell walls; hyphae invade body and eat it; asexual reproduction |
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| absorb phosphorus containing ions and transfer to roots of trees; host plants provide fungi with sugrs and organic compounds; form spores underground |
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only organisms capable of synthesizing lignin peroxidase and able to digest wood; form rusts and smuts; asexual reproduction; during sexual reproduction, basisia are formed |
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| basidiomycota (club fungi) |
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ascomycota (lichen-formers) |
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ascomycota (non-lichen formers) |
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