Fungi are really common but often hard to see because they can be very small or are living hidden inside their home — which may be a log, the soil, a plant or an animal on which they are feeding.
They live on and in their food! Fungi are not plants. Instead, fungi have to get their food from other sources, living or dead. Animals, like fungi, cannot make their own food but they can at least move to find the food they need. Fungi are very different from plants and animals, and there are so many kinds of fungi. There are more different kinds of fungi in the forests of Aotearoa than different kinds of plants, and there are even more different kinds of insects and other animals.
All of these fungi, plants and animals live together in the forest and are linked together in many ways including in food webs. Instead, fungi grow as masses of narrow branched threads called hyphae. These hyphae have thin outer walls, and their food, water and oxygen need to move across the wall into the living fungal cell — a process called absorption. Any waste products, like CO 2 , leave the cell by crossing the thin wall in the other direction.
Hyphae can change their form from when they are feeding to when they become part of a mushroom, for example. A mushroom is made up of masses of specially arranged hyphae.
Fungal hyphae can often be seen as white threads, about as narrow as spider silk, among dead leaves on the forest floor or under bark of rotting trees, or they can be grown in a laboratory on a kind of jelly-like food in a plastic Petri dish. Learn more about fungal life cycles and different parts of a fungus in Fungal life cycles — spores and more.
Based on these and other properties, in Whittaker proposed that fungi become a separate kingdom as a part of a new five-kingdom system of classification. The proposed classification included a vast array of species. Among them, mushrooms, yeast, molds, slime molds, water molds, puffballs and mildews.
Since then, the system of classification and the fungal kingdom have been further refined. For example, slime molds and water molds were shuttled off to a different kingdom. Today, the members of the kingdom Fungi are also known as the "true fungi. Nevertheless, there are a few key aspects common to all members of the fungal kingdom. Cells: Fungi are eukaryotes, just like plants and animals. This means they have a well-organized cell, characteristic of all eukaryotes. Their DNA is encapsulated in a central structure called the nucleus some cells can have multiple nuclei, according to "Van Nostrand".
They also have specialized cellular machinery called organelles that execute various dedicated functions such as energy production and protein transport. Fungal cells are encased in two layers: an inner cell membrane and an outer cell wall. These two layers have more in common with animals than plants. Like animal cell membranes, those of fungi are made of proteins and fatty molecules called lipids.
In addition, animal cell membranes contain varying amounts of cholesterol. Similarly fungal membranes contain a unique steroid called ergosterol , according to Volk. Plant cell walls are made of cellulose, whereas fungal cell walls have chitin, a distinctly non-plant substance. In fact, the exoskeletons, or the outer hard shell of various arthropods insects, and crustaceans like crabs and lobsters are made of chitin. Structure: Fungi can be made up of a single cell as in the case of yeasts, or multiple cells, as in the case of mushrooms.
The bodies of multicellular fungi are made of cells that band together in rows that resemble the branches of trees. Each individual branched structure is called a hypha plural: hyphae. Most often, the individual cells in hyphae sit right next to each other in a continuous line also known as coenocytic hyphae but they can sometimes be separated into compartments by a cross wall septate hyphae.
Several hyphae mesh together to form the mycelium, which constitutes the fungal body, according to "Van Nostrand. Nutrition: As mentioned earlier, since fungi cannot conduct photosynthesis, they need to absorb nutrients from various organic substances around them. This makes them heterotrophs , which literally translates to "other feeding," according to Volk. Animals are heterotrophs as well, and need to seek out their food. But in their case, digestion takes place inside the body. These enzymes are the primary reason why fungi are able to thrive in diverse environments from woody surfaces to insides of our body.
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