Give the general characters of Kingdom Fungi with examples.
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General characters of Kingdom Fungi:
i. Type of organisms: It is a unique kingdom of heterotrophic organisms, showing extracellular digestion. The organisms are multicellular and filamentous.
ii. Nucleus: The cells may be multinucleate or uninucleate.
iii. Body: Multicellular organisms consist of a body called mycelium in which a number of thread or fibre-like structures called hyphae are present. The hyphae may be with septa (septate) or without septa (aseptate). The non-septate multinucleated hyphae are called coenocytic hyphae.
iv. Cell wall: The cell wall in fungi is composed of chitin or fungal cellulose or both.
v. Cell organelles: The fungi contain well organized membrane bound cell organelles except the chloroplasts.
vi. Nutrition: The fungi exhibit heterotrophic mode of nutrition and most of the members are saprophytes and absorb food which is decomposed (digested) outside. Some are parasites, predators or symbiotic.
vii. Reproduction: Fungi exhibit vegetative, asexual and sexual mode of reproduction. Examples: Mucor, Rhizopus, Penicillium, Agaricus, etc.
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9. Give the general characters of kingdom fungi..