Botany Lab Prep

KINGDOM FUNGI

BIO 201: Botany

DIVISION OOMYCOTA

• Water molds (one of the lower fungi)

• Coenocytic hyphae

• Asexual – zoospores

• Sexual – antheridia & oogonia

DIVISION OOMYCOTA

Zoosporangia

Division Oomycota

• Sexual reproduction

DIVISION ZYGOMYCOTA

• Molds, including bread mold

DIVISION ZYGOMYCOTA

• Asexual by producing sporangiophores

DIVISION ZYGOMYCOTA• Sexual reproduction zygote

DIVISION ASCOMYCOTA

• Cup fungi & morels

DIVISION ASCOMYCOTA

• Sexual reproduction in an ascocarp:8 ascospores per ascus

DIVISION ASCOMYCOTA

• Unusual fungus is yeast (Sacchromyces)remains small unicellular, egg-shaped

IMPERFECT FUNGI

• Abundant asexual reproductionproduce conidia

• No known sexual reproduction

• Include:PenicilliumAspergillus

Penicillium Aspergillus

DIVISION BASIDIOMYCOTA

• Shelf fungi, coral fungi, mushrooms

DIVISION BASIDIOMYCOTA

• Common mushroomfruiting body = basidiocarp

• Gills: LP (left), HP (right)

• Produce 4 basidiospores per basidium

LICHENS

• Symbiotic relationship between - fungi (commonly Ascomycota) and - algae (Division Chlorophyta)

LICHENS

• Detail of lichen anatomyAlgae (above) fungi (below)