BIOLOGY AND DIVERSITY OF VIRUSES, BACTERIA AND FUNGI (PAPER CODE: BOT 501) By Dr. Kirtika Padalia Department of Botany Uttarakhand Open University, Haldwani E-mail:
[email protected] OBJECTIVES The main objective of the present lecture is to cover the topic and make it easy to understand and interesting for our students/learners. BLOCK – III : FUNGI – I Unit –10 : General Characters and Classification of Fungi CONTENT ❑ Introduction of fungi ❑ General characteristics of fungi ❖ Occurance ❖ Thallus organisation ❖ Different forms of mycellium ❖ Cell structure ❖ Nutrition ❖ Heterothallism and Homothallism ❖ Reproduction ❑ Classification of fungi ❖ Classification based on taxonomy hierarchy ❖ Classification based on spore Production ❖ Classification of medically important fungi ❖ Classification based on route of acquisition ❖ Classification based on virulence ❑ Key points of the lecture ❑ Terminology ❑ Assessment Questions ❑ Bibliography WHAT IS FUNGI ???? ❖ Fungi is the plural of word fungus which is derived from the latin word fungour. ❖ Fungi are achlorophyllas, heterotrophic eukaryotic thallophytes. ❖ According to Alexopoulos (1962), the fungi include nucleated spore bearing achlorophyllas organisms that generally reproduce sexually and whose filamentous branched somatic struture are typically surrounded by cell wall containing cellulose or chitin or both. ❖ According to Bessey (1968), fungi are chlorophyll less non vascular plants whose reproductive or vegetative structure do not permit them to be assigned to position among recognized group of higher plants. ❖ The branch of botany that deals with the fungi is called mycology and the scientist who is concern with the fungi is called a mycologist. ❖ P. A. Micheli known as father of mycology whereas E. J. Butler refer to as father of Indian mycology. ❖ Fungi are non-green in color with the capacity to live in all kinds of environments.