EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -fungus, plural fungi, any of about 144, 000 known species of organisms of the kingdom Fungi, which includes the yeasts, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, and mushrooms. There are also many funguslike organisms, including slime molds and oomycetes (water molds), that do not belong to kingdom Fungi but are often called fungi.

Detailed explanation-2: -Molds are considered to be microbes and do not form a specific taxonomic or phylogenetic grouping, but can be found in the divisions Zygomycota and Ascomycota. In the past, most molds were classified within the Deuteromycota.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mushrooms are fungi. They belong in a kingdom of their own, separate from plants and animals. Fungi differ from plants and animals in the way they obtain their nutrients. Generally, plants make their food using the sun’s energy (photosynthesis), while animals eat, then internally digest, their food.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mushrooms, for the most part, belong to either the Basidiomycota or Ascomycota phyla. Basidios are more common than ascos, as the former includes all mushrooms with gills.

Detailed explanation-5: -fungus (plural: fungi)-A simple organism with cell walls and no chlorophyll, belonging to the Kingdom Fungi. Fungal cells have at least one nucleus and can fuse together to form strands or grow as single cells. Fungi digest and absorb food from their environment. Some examples of fungi are molds, yeasts and mushrooms.