Question

Describe Lichen?
or
Write a note on phycomycets?

Answer 1

Answer:

HEY MATE...

GOOD EVENING...♥

LICHEN CONSISTS OF A SIMPLE PHOTOSYNTHESIZING ORGANISM,USUALLY A GREEN ALGAE OR CYNOBACTERIUM,SURROUNDED BY FILAMENTS OF FUNGUS...

GENERALLY LICHENS ARE MADE OF INTERWOVEN FUNGAL FILAMENTS,ALTHOUGH IN FILAMENTOUS AND GELATINOUS LICHENS THIS IS NOT THE CASE...

Answer 2

Answer:

A lichen is a composite organism that emerges from algae or cyanobacteria living among the filaments (hyphae) of the fungi in a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship.

Phycomycetes are also known as algal fungi and are characterized by presence of aseptate coenocytic hyphae. Sexual reproduction can be isogamous or heterogamous.