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Mycology

What are fungi?
- Moulds
- Mushrooms
- Smutts
- Truffles
- Yeasts
Roles of Fungi
- Decomposers
- symbionts
  - An organism that lives in symbiosis with another
- Parasites
General features
- Eukaryortic
- Aerobes
- Grow at optimum temp of 20-30 C
- Non-Photosynthetic
- Absorb nutrients from their environment
- Uni or multi cellular
- Non-Motile
- Produce Spores
- Sexual and asexual reproduction
- Resistant to antibacterials
Yeasts
- Unicellular
- Macroscopic; Pasty colonies that resemble bacteria
- Microscopic; Oval/Round that produce budding
- In tissue appear pseudohyphae
  - chain of easily disrupted fungal cells that is intermediate between a chain of budding cells and a true hypha, marked by constrictions rather than septa at the junctions.
Mould
- Multicellular
- Macroscopic; Pigmentation seen on reverse and surface texture is variable.
- Microscopic; Hyphae with spores
- Mould Definition
  - Masses of Filaments called Hyphae
  - Multicellular Filamentour; network of hyphae
  - Hyphae make a network of MYCELIUM