what is the ecological importants of a puffball fungi???its lifestyle???
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Homobasidiomycetes function as decayers, pathogens, parasites, and mutualistic symbionts of both plants and animals. They make their broadest ecological impacts through their activities as wood-decayers and ectomycorrhizal symbionts of forest trees (such as pines, oaks, dipterocarps, and eucalypts; Rayner and Boddy 1988; Smith and Read 1997).
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Candida albicans is a yeast, that is, a unicellular fungus-like organism. The life of these organisms is not measured as lifespan of a single cell (which is probably not much) but as the persistence of the entire population, which depends on their reproduction on a substratum (nutritious substances) and adequate environmental conditions.
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I can think of a few:\n\nFungi are actually more closely related to animals. They get their food from living matter.\nHowever, they are different from animals because:\n\nThey absorb their food instead of ingesting it.\n\nThey have cell walls.\n\nThey are stationary, like plants.\n\nThey are different from plants because:\n\nThey are heterotrophs.\n\nThey lack roots.
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yeast is a fungus\nits a single celled organism
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"Phylum Ciliophora:...A unique feature of all ciliates is the presence of two nuclei. The macronucleus  controls the cells growth and contains hundreds of copies of DNA. The micronucleus  is a small diploid nucleus used during the process of conjugation when genetic material between paramecia is swapped."\n\nThere are others out there, especially funguses that have multiple nuclei, but this seemed the most likely to be the one you were looking for.
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Mushrooms are a fungus and fungus spreads via spores
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Salaginella, Isoetes, Psilotum, Lepidodendron, Paurodendron, Equisetum, Pleuromeia, Nathorstiana, Phylloglossum, Tmesipteris, Pertica, Zosterophyllum, Psilophyton, Sawdonia, Horneophyton, Crooksonia, Rhynia, Aglaophyton, Onoclea, Todea, Osmunda\n\nMany of these are extinct.\n\nDon't listen to the first answer; fungi are not plants.\n\nGlad to see more people taking an interest in these things.\nThere is also a great book called "Primitive Land Plants," by F.O. Bower.
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Mycelium is the threadlike part of a fungus that grows beneath the ground -ie the "vegetative part of the fungus (as opposed the the "mushroon" which is the "fruiting" part of a fungus)\n\nPseudomycelium is mycelium that's faking it. :)\n\nSome fungi (such as the yeast _Candida albicans_) can produce filaments that look similar to the vegetative part of other fungi, but the real vegetative part of the yeast cell is the single yeast cell (rather than the "pseudomycelium" protrusion from the cell or cell clumps).
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I have heard of it and I am looking for it myself. I have found several libraries with copies -- mostly college libraries here and there in the US -- but they are not willing to share off campus.\n\nI have also contacted BBC. To no avail. I sure would appreciate it if you are able to lay your hands on a copy. I teach about recycling. Fungus is nature's recycler!! :-)\n\nIf you're asking about the video, I only have my memory of what it was about. It described what fungus was and its role in our world as a decomposer. That without it, the world would be littered with unrotting carcasses of our dead flora and fauna.
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(m)\n\nMycology is the study of fungi. At various points throughout history, fungi have been considered to be either plants or animals. It was finally concluded that fungi are neither plants nor animals, but are a distinct group. Fungi are now considered one of the five kingdoms into which all living organisms are classified.
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Bacteria, amoebas and fungi
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Live bacteria seems unlikely. Bacterial spores, no problems.\n\nYou would have more luck trying to isolate fungi.
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They are part of the FBI. Fungas bactiria and invertabrates. The decomposers. Without these supper heros we'd be neck deep in death! Also some fungi have a nitrogen fixxing quality meaning that plants that require high nitrogen in their soil will be pron to living in an area with these fungi. And without fugi we'd have no lichen. Fungi and alge form a sybiotic relationship. The fungi breaks down one organic, and the alge photosynthisizes returning energy in that form. Lichen and mosses are responsable for the reforestation of north america ( or any land that was stipped of life) after the last ice age. Their called primary sucessors. Hope that helps!
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well moss is very helpful cuz it traps alot of moisture so it provides water for neerby plants and insects during short dry periods. its also good at stabalizing the soil and prevents it from erosion during heavy rains. i guess insects can use them as habitat as well. lichen is more of a parizite. its actualy a combination of algea and fungi which use one another to survive. the algea make food from sunlight, while the fungi absorb nutrients from the surrounding, and they share it to survive. i guess there role in the ecosystem is the same as that of fungi. their decomposers which feed on decaying matter.
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General\n Both are stationary and produce spores/seeds for reproduction.\n Both go through an alternation of generations.\n Both are classified at the nost basic level by method of reproduction.\n Many plants and fungi have asexual as well as sexual reproduction methods.\n\n plants=photosynthesis\n fungi=feed on living or once living material (unable to photosynthesize)\n\n\nTry making a chart with fungi in one column and plants in the other. Then compare the different information you have.
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Spores are usually the more simple non-sexual reproductive cells and are found in the lower plants and fungi, especially in those which may or may not need much water or light to develop to another stage of an organism's life cycle; (the sexual stages with sperm require the most water so the sperm can move with their flagella-tail or cilia! Spores can lay around in a dry environment for a while without water and then will be able to sprout long after the spore was originally released. Sperm and egg are generally much more delicate and short-lived and dry out easily. \n\nSometimes spore producing organisms reproduce by "alternation of generations" (like Bryophytes: mosses and liverworts and Pterophytes (ferns) and some fungi (mushrooms), where part of their life cycle is sexual reproduction with gametes or some other type of"sex cell" and part of their life is non-sexual with spores.  Spores (usually n haploid in chromosome number) of mosses and liverworts and ferns are able to produce the n haploid gametophyte stage (which makes the gametes) and the fertilized gametes (zygospores)  develops the spores, often inside a little capsule, can produce the 2n sporophyte stage. Sexual non-spore reproduction gives greater genetic variation than spores.  Non sexual reproduction by spores produces similar simple less diverse offspring.\n\nSpores are also produced by some fungi, like under the gills of mushrooms and on bread mold. Spores are able to move with either the air or with water or even in the fur of animals since they are often round and move easily.
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Poss fungal infection.  Ever heard of Black Hairy Tounge?  It is REAL!!  I've only seen it once.\n\n\nSEE A DOCTOR!!!!!!!