Write the 8 characters of kingdom fungi
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1-Fungi are eukaryotic, non-vascular, non-motile and heterotrophic organisms.
2-They may be unicellular or filamentous.
3-They reproduce by means of spores.
4-Fungi lack chlorophyll and hence cannot perform photosynthesis.
5-Fungi store their food in the form of starch.
6-Biosynthesis of chitin occurs in fungi.
7-The nuclei of the fungi are very small.
8-The fungi have no embryonic stage. They develop from the spores.
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• Fungi are cosmopolitan eukaryotic organisms found mostly in humus rich soil. But, in presence of moisture, these can grow on leather, wood, pickle and bread. Some fungi live parasitically on plants, animals and human body.
• Chloroplast is absent in fungi, so fungi are heterotrophs. Fungi obtain their own food from dead organic matter or living organisms.
• Fungi store their food as glycogen just like animals.
• Cell wall is made up of chitin and polysaccharides.
• The body of fungi is called mycelium. Mycelium is composed of filaments called hypha which maybe aseptate or septate.
• Their cells have unicisternal golgi bodies.
• Mitosis in somatic cells is Karyochorisis type ( mitosis with intranuclear spindle formation)
• Fungi reproduce by all three modes, i.e vegetative, asexual and sexual.
• Some fungi are found symbiotically associated with algae and form lichens. Some fungi are found symbiotically in the roots of higher plants and form mycorrhiza.
• Fungi are further divided into Phycomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes and Dueteromycetes.
• Some examples of fungi are : Penicillium, puccinia, Alternaria solanii, aspergillus, agaricus etc.
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