NEET BIOLOGY

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: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Within the main body of mushrooms, in the Agaricales, are common fungi like the common fairy-ring mushroom, shiitake, enoki, oyster mushrooms, fly agarics and other Amanitas, magic mushrooms like species of Psilocybe, paddy straw mushrooms, shaggy manes, etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fungi are usually classified in four divisions: the Chytridiomycota (chytrids), Zygomycota (bread molds), Ascomycota (yeasts and sac fungi), and the Basidiomycota (club fungi). Placement into a division is based on the way in which the fungus reproduces sexually.