Zygomycota facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Zygomycota |
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| Sporangium of a Phycomyces sp. | |
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Fungi
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Zygomycota
C. Moreau 1954
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Zygomycetes
Winter 1881
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Zygomycota, or zygote fungi, is a large group of 1600 species of fungi.
Fungi are put into groups by the way they reproduce. The name Zygommcota comes from zygosporangia, where strong and tough round shaped spores are formed during sexual reproduction.
They are mostly found living in soil or on decaying plant or animal material. Some are parasites of plants, insects, and small animals. Others form symbiotic relationships with plants, where the plant and the fungi need each other to grow.
Zygomycete hyphae may be a syncytium, that is, having a mass of nuclei not divided into separate cells. On occasion these can be divided into separate parts by a cell wall called a septum. This only happens where gametes are formed, or to wall off dead hyphae.
Images for kids
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An immature zygosporangium of the Rhizopus fungus forming from two fused gametangia, showing a "yoke" shape.
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Detail of Sporangia of a Zygomycota species growing on a peach.
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Sporangium.
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Typical fungal cell wall structure
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Postulated biosynthesis of trisporic acid B
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Phylogenetic tree of True Fungi
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Zygomycetes on solid media
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See also
In Spanish: Zygomycota para niños
