D- mycology Fungi introduction. Fungi are all around us We touch them, we swallow them, we breathe them There are more than 1.5 million fungal species.
Chapter 21 Mrs. LaLone. Kingdom Fungi Mycologists study fungus! Eukaryotic Organisms Ex: Mushrooms, yeasts, molds 70,000+ species of Fungus Mostly Terrestrial.
Fungi. l First fungi were probably flagellated. –First fossils – 480 million years ago (Ordovician Period) –Molecular Clock suggests 1 billion years ago.
1 Survey of Eukaryotic Microbes Fungi Algae Lichens Chapters 5 & 22 Talaro Foundations in Microbiology.