DISCUSSION 1

FUNGUS-LIKE PROTISTS
resembles fungi but their cellular structure are more like protists

absorbs nutrients from dead or decaying matter
lack chitin on their cell walls

True Fungi

Found growing on damp organic material like bread and ripe fruits

Foin grassy places
Can make a poisoned bait for killing fireflies by crashing the cap in milk or sprinkling it in sugar

Responsible for the spoilage of fruits (especially citrus)
Produces the flavoring in camembert cheese

FUNGUS-LIKE PROTISTS: Eumycophyta
(True Fungi)

Imperfect Fungi

Lack sexual phase in reproduction
The parasites that cause diseases on plants, animals and human beings

Trichosporon beigelii
Pitysporum ovale
Cryptococcus neoformans
Candida species.

Slime Fungi

Myxomycota is also known as

Myxomycota exists in nature as

Coral slime

Dog vomit slime mold

Possess a root like structure (rhizoids),
stem- like structures (caulids) and leaf-
like structures (phyllids)

root like structure

stem- like structures

leaf-like structures

liverworts

mosses

hornworts

serves an ornamental plants in rock graden and stone walls
helps to slow erosion aids in water retention in soil
converts to fuel (peat moss)

Whisk ferns

Club moss

Horestails

Ferns

produces broom
serves as scrub for kitchen utensils
becomes an ornamental plant

SEEDED VASCULAR PLANTS

Conifers