Fungi

Question 1

What type of cells are fungi?

Answer 1

Fungi can be single-celled organisms or very complex multicellular organisms. They are eukaryotic and in multicellular organisms their body its normally organised into a mycelium made from thread like structures called hyphae.

Question 2

What does a basic fungi cell contain?

Answer 2

Cell wall, cell membrane, mitochondria, cytoplasm, nucleus and ribosomes.

Question 3

What are single-celled fungi cell wall made up of?

Answer 3

chitin.

Question 4

How do single-celled fungi feed?

Answer 4

Through saprophytic nutrition. This is the nutrition in which an organism obtains its food from the dead and decaying organic matter of plants and animals.

Question 5

What do fungi store carbs as?

Answer 5

Fungi store carbs as glycogen.

Question 6

What is an example of a fungi?

Answer 6

Mucor, which has the typical fungal hyphal structure, and yeast, which is single-celled.