Fungi

• have filamentous, hyaline, thin-walled vegetative body
• The filament of fungi is hyphae and group of hyphae is mycelium.
• have thick cell wall made up of polysaccharide nearly always with chitin micro fibrils.
• Motile stages are absent (Never form flagella).
• Mycelia may be coenocytic (aseptate or septate)
• Asexual reproduction is by variety of spores:Conidia, Chlamidospore
• Sexual spores are also produced. But not reported in Deuteromycetes.
• Large sexual fruiting body; ascocarp in ascomycetes (ascospores are formed with mother cell ascus) Basidiocarp in Basidiomycetes (basidiospores are formed exogenously)

Types of fungi

a) Zygomycetes

• Aseptate mycelium
• Mucor, Rhizospore

b) Ascomycetes

• Septate
• Yeast, Penicillium

c) Basidiomycetes

• Septate
• Agaricus, Puccinia Usticago

d) Deuteromycetes

• Fusarium, Alternaria