Fungi

• Biologie / Verzorging
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 1

Welcome!

Identification (page 237)

Explanation about fungi (paragraph 3.5, page 201)

Making exercises 

Identification 1

Identification 2

Identification 3

Identification 4

What are we going to learn today?

Today we will learn:

What the characteristics of fungi are.

How fungi can be a use or a danger to us. 

Fungus cell

What are the cell characteristics of a fungus cell?

Build

Fungi mostly consist of mycelium/hyphae. Very thin, hair like structures that act as the roots. 

When fungi want to reproduce they make a toadstool that develop spores within.

Toadstool

Toadstool

Yeasts

Yeasts are unicellular fungi that play a major role in producing alcohol and bread. 

Yeasts can also reproduce. They do this by making buds.

Useful

Fungi can be both useful and harmful for us:

Useful:

--> Played a key role in the discovery of antibiotics.

--> Help in the production of beer and bread.

--> Clean up remains of plants and animals. 

Harmful

Fungi can be both useful and harmful for us:

Harmful

--> Can spoil food

--> Can be the origin of infections like eczema and candida.

Homework

The homework for next lesson are the exercises of paragraph 3.3, including the summary and plusexercise, starting on page 204.