FUNGI

ALGAE
BACTERIA
VIRUS
PROTOZOA
 YEAST(UNICELLULAR)

MOULDS(MULTICELLULAR)

MUSHROOMS(MULTICELLULAR)
 PARASITES → Organisms which
CHARACTERISTICS OF FUNGI live in a host organism and
obtain their food from it.

• Different from both plants and animals.

• Lack chlorophyll
• Cell wall-different from plant cell wall
• Animals digest food inside their bodies whereas fungi digest
food outside their bodies by releasing enzymes
• Fungi obtain food from dead and decaying organic matter-
SAPROPHYTIC mode of nutrition
• Fungi as PARASITES absorb food from their hosts.
 SPORANGIUM

SPORES

SPORANGIOPHORE

STOLON

RHIZOIDS
 FUNGI AS Penicillin was invented by
Alexander Fleming in 1936.

FRIEND FOE
• GREENISH FUNGUS → PENICILLIUM
• ANTIBIOTIC → PENICILLIN
• CURES BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
→ DAMAGES WHEAT CROP