What are fungi?
By Indra Bhan
Fungi is a multi-cellular organism that obtains their nutrition from
rotten materials
.
There are both types of sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction in fungi.
Kingdom Fungi are divided into four groups, one of which sexual reproduction is not found, namely
Deuteromycetes
.
Characteristics of Kingdom Fungi -
1. The study of fungi is called
Mycology
.
2. Kingdom fungi were presented by R. H. Whittaker.
Fungi are
saprophytic
, that is, they get their nutrition from rotten or dead substances.
They are also called
decomposers
because they decompose rotten materials.
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