{"id":9080,"date":"2016-03-28T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T09:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=9080"},"modified":"2016-03-28T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T09:46:45","slug":"kingdom-fungi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/kingdom-fungi\/","title":{"rendered":"This information about Kingdom fungi is going to help you to grab certain marks in AIPMT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was the time when scientist had no information about the types of life present over the earth. Gradually when intelligence was increasing, more exploration on life was being done. In 1969,<b>R.H Whittaker <\/b>divided the life in 5 categories.<\/p>\n<p>Here!life that I am talking about is the <b>Kingdom<\/b>. 5 Kingdoms were defined at that time. It <b>was Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae &amp; Animalia<\/b>. Here we are specifically going to learn about <b>Fungi<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Read it &amp; let it set in your brain \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You must have heard about mushroom, molds, yeasts, smut, morels &amp; truffles etc. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0There is something common in between them which are the reason we keep them under same category which is Kingdom Fungi. Although;these common characters are microscopic.Let\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s study a detail about <b>Kingdom Fungi<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/162.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/162.png\" alt=\"16\" width=\"388\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fungi are saprophytic in nature. The study of fungi is known as <b>Mycology.<\/b>They are completely distinct from plants &amp; animals. A vast variety of fungi is still understudied. There are millions of types of fungi around the world. Cell wall of fungi is made up of <b>chitin<\/b> which is a type of carbohydrate. Carbohydrate is also stored in it in the form of glycogen.<\/p>\n<p>Fruit* part of fungi is visible only. <b>Mycelium;<\/b> which is the living part of fungi is not visible. Here let\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s take a look to certain features of fungi.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eukaryotic organisms<\/li>\n<li>Reproduction occurs by spore formation.<\/li>\n<li>Both sexual &amp; sexual spores are formed.<\/li>\n<li>Non motile in nature<\/li>\n<li>Fungi show <b>alternation of generation<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now let\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s study about the categorization of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/172.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/172.png\" alt=\"17\" width=\"838\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Fig: Classification of Kingdom fungi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Myxomycota \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 <\/b>They are the plasmodial slime molds. They may be unicellular, multicellular &amp; colonial. They require moist atmosphere for its growth. This class comprises of 3 subclasses, 6 orders, nearly 57 genera, &amp; 600 species.<\/p>\n<p>The Subclasses <b>Ceratiomyxomycetidae, Myxogastromycetidae, &amp; Stemonitomycetidae<\/b> are differentiated by the kind of sporophore development, method of bearing spores &amp; type of plasmodium.Myxomycetes starts to appear in may &amp; it fruits in summers in temperate region of north.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/182.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/182.png\" alt=\"18\" width=\"427\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Fig. Dog vomit slime mould (phylum \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Myxomycota)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On disturbing, spores are released from the fruiting body which falls on the substratum which consists of water. They release protoplast after germination. Grown protoplast then act like sex cells (<b>gametes<\/b>). Haploid sex cells then fuse to form the diploid structures. After a number of cell division, it is converted into plasmodium structure.<\/p>\n<p><b>Oomycota \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 <\/b>They are simply known aswater molds. More than 500 species fall in this category. They are basically <b>filamentous<\/b> protists. Their cell wall is made up of cellulose.Oomyctes help in decomposition of organic matter as well. The position of oomycota under fungi category is controversial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/192.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/192.png\" alt=\"19\" width=\"330\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Fig: Oomycitic fungi under microscope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We can distinguish oomycota on the basis of production of <b>oospore &amp; oogonia<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Oomycota include mostly of plant pathogen. They are also closely related to plants &amp; algae.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/202.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/202.png\" alt=\"20\" width=\"222\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"right\"><b>Fig: Division &#8211; Eumycota<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Eumycota (Mycota)\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<\/b>They are eukaryotic heterotrophic organisms.Its sub division includes <b>mycophytes, deutromycetes, ascomycetes &amp; basidiomycetes. <\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Eymocota fungus consist of efficient enzymes which can digest<b> chitin, lignin, keratin, cellulose etc. They show reproduction by spore formation. <\/b>They also consist of its vegetative part which is knownas<b> hyphae.<\/b>Hyphae are strong, waterproof &amp; chitinous<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0They reproduce by both sexual &amp; asexual reproduction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 They lack chlorophyll pigment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 They may be free-living or parasitic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It consists of storage compounds.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this information is going to be very useful for you. 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