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Mind Map by Chloe Cotter, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Chloe Cotter
over 7 years ago
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Fungi
- Advantages
- Some edible
- Some used in the production of cheeses
- Some used in antibiotics - penicillin
- Yeast used in bread making
- Some edible
- Disadvantages
- Can cause food spoilage
- Some poisonous - amanita
- Cause plant disease - potato blight
- Cause human diseases - athlete's foot
- Can cause food spoilage
- Moulds, yeast & large fungi
- Don't make their own food
- Large fungi
- Generally edible
- Field mushrooms - button
- Truffles - a delicacy found underground
- Visible to the naked eye
- Generally edible
- Reproduction of large fungi
- 1. Mushrooms start as spore
- 2. Produce hyphae which develop into mycelium on soil
- 3. Hyphae grow upwards
- 4. A tightly closed cap forms at the top of the hyphae
- 5. This increases in size & opens as the mushroom grows
- 6. Pink gills form underneath cap & spores are produced here
- 7. When the mushroom are ripe spores are released
- 1. Mushrooms start as spore
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