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1.multicellular (made of many cells), |
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2.They obtain food by absorbing it from dead or living organisms, |
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3. they cannot move about. |
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More than 100,000 kinds of fungi have been described with thousands yet to be discovered..thus it is fruitless to describe the phyla |
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Fungi feed by absorbing the dead or living material of other organisms |
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To do this they produce threadlike structures (called mycelia) that grow deep into their food materials |
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Chemicals from the mycelia dissolve the food and the nutrients are absorbed by the mycelia |
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When the food is part of a living organism, the fungus may cause diseases such as athlete's foot (humans) and Dutch Elm disease (American Elm trees) |
