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Chapter 31
Fungi
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
11/06/2011

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Opisthokonta
Definition
The eukaryotic supergroup that is made up of the kingdom Fungi and the animal kingdom.
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Nuclearia
Definition
Fungi arose from protists closely related to Nuclearia (the modern genus) which is an amoeba that feeds by engulfing cells of algae and bacteria.
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Hetereotrophic
Definition
Can not produce own food.
Term
In what three ways are fungi closely related to animals?
Definition
1. Both heterotrophic.
2. Both use absorptive nutrition.
3. Both store surplus food as the carbohydrate, glycogen.
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What is absorptive nutrition?
Definition
What fungi and animals do to get nutrition. Secrete enzymes and absorb resulting small organic molecules.
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Substrate:
Definition
Organic compounds fungi use as food such as soil, rotting log.
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5 fungal phyla
Definition
1.chytrids (chytridiomycota)
2.zygomycetes (zygomycota)
3.AM fungi (Glomeromycota)
4.Ascomycetes (ascomycota)
5.Basidiomycetes (basidiomycota)
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