[IB Biology at GHS: Cell Biology]
Fungi

The photo above shows a mushroom, a type of fungus

Kingdom Fungi

Examples: Mushrooms, Puffballs, Yeasts, Molds

Characteristics:

* Mainly multi-cellular.

* Eukaryotic cells

* Possess a nucleus

* Have membrane-bound organelles

* Plant-like but lack chlorophyll

* Surrounded by a rigid cell wall made of chitin.

* Saprotrophic (they feed on dead organisms or dead cells by digesting them outside their body, then moving the digested material into their cells)

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