Question

What is economic importance of fungi and algae?

Answer 1

economic imp of fungi:
Fungi are the saprophytic division of living organisms. They can be useful and harmful fungi around us. Fungi can be used as food in the form of Mushrooms and Morels. Fungi are used in industries in the production of bakery products and in the production of wine by fermentation process.
Economic importance of algae
Algae are photosynthetic microorganisms that can synthesise their own food. They can serve us lot of purposes and are economically important.
Algae are used as food as they are rich in carbohydrates, vitamins and few other inorganic substances. Spirogyra is the chief source of food. Some algae are found to be rich in protein content when compared to egg.
Agar –Agar is used in preparation of ice-cream and jellies. e.g. Gelidium
Algae are chewed instead of tobacco. e.g. Rhodomenia
Algae is used extensively in industries to prepare some products like sugar, soap, cement, rubber blotting paper etc.
Algae are used to prepare algin used to prepare rollers for typewriters.
Algae are used in agriculture to increase soil fertility e.g. Nostoc, Anabena.
Some algae are used in the preparation of medicines.