BIOL 1108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mass Flow, Homothallism, Heterothallic
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Storing energy in glycogen rather than starch. Their inability to capture prey or solid food particles by phagocytosis. Multicellular organisms composed of long filaments called hyphae that are only one cell thick. Associated with living autotrophic organisms but not lethal. Fungi and animals are more closely related than either is to plants. The entire mass of hyphae making up the body of a fungus. Hypha refers to a single individual filament of fungal cells. Fungal vegetative body is composed of hyphae well suited for absorption and mass flow. Mass flow through connected cytoplasms (and turgor, needed for growth. Sexual reproduction is common but not universal. Largely terrestrial but some have flagellate stages. Fruiting structures are the structures called mushrooms or mold. The mating type of an individual is determined by a mating type gene. Fungi species can differ in the number of mating type alleles. The dikaryotic cells exist during the heterokaryotic phase.
