I have a final exam coming up for biology. I chose fungi as my topic. What should i write about?

What should i write about?!?! It has to be a page in length.





I'M NOT DOING MAGIC MUSHROOMS, OR ANYTHING PSYCHEDELIC! BEER IS ALSO OUT OF THE QUESTION!!!I have a final exam coming up for biology. I chose fungi as my topic. What should i write about?
First, a short introductory paragraph explaining what are the Fungi, with examples of well-known species (such as mushrooms or molds).


Then, there are lots of interesting points that you can explore:


- How they belong to a different kingdom, not animal or plant, and the ways in which they differ from any other living beings.Although they may look like ';plants'; to us, they're probably more closely related to us animals.


- Fungi are saprotrophic, which means that they feed on dead organic matter - and they are absolutely essential for the biosphere for this reason. The cycle of matter on the planet could not be completed without them.


- They are able to survive in very hostile environments, colonizing new places and making them more adequate for other organisms.


- Fungi can be extremely large: http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl鈥?/a>


- Relationships with other living beings: some fungi are symbiotic, others are parasitic, etc.


- How we use them: as food for direct consumption and as part of food production (e.g. cheeses), for pest control (e.g. fungi that cause disease in pest insects), antibiotics, etc.





Here's some good basic information: http://www.microbiologybytes.com/introdu鈥?/a>


http://www.uwlax.edu/biology/volk/fungi3鈥?/a>





Good luck, hope this helps!I have a final exam coming up for biology. I chose fungi as my topic. What should i write about?
Members of fungi are distinct from plants, protoctistans, animals and bacteria as they are achlorophyllous eukaryotic multicellular organisms with absorptive heterotrophic nutrition. They along with prokaryotes (bacteria) are the decomposers of the biosphere. It has been estimated that the top 2 decimeters of fertile soil may contain nearly 5 metric tons of fungi and bacteria per hectare which add nutrients to the soil by decomposition of dead plants and animals.


They can never photosynthesize and are non-motile. They produce very large number of spores to maximize their chances of colonizing new food sources. For example, a single giant puffball can contain over 7 million spores. They are extremely resistant to adverse conditions such as drying out and some have been seen to thrive even in concentrated sulphuric acid.


The fungi are classified on the basis of morphology (kind of mycelium) and their mode of reproduction into various groups.


1.CHYTRIDIOMYCETES 2. ASCOMYCETES


3. ZYGOMYCETES


4. OOMYCETES


5. DEUTEROMYCETES


6. BASIODIOMYCETES


7. MYCOPHYCOMYCETES


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i'm not really smart and am stating the obvious but why dont you write about where fungi grows, how and why it spreads, effects it might have on people in any way (diseases?) effects it may have on the area surrounding it, who discovered it. that will probably cover probably a quater of a page i'me not too sure what else you could put.
How about the mutual symbiotic relationship between fungi and plants? These fungi are called mychorrizae and are essential to the uptake of water and nutrients for plants. You could discuss how numerous these are and how they help plants.