Fungi -
Some of the chief characteristics are as follows:
(1) Heterotrophic eukaryotic microbes obtaining their food in a soluble form by uptake through plasma membrane in a manner similar to prokaryotes.
(2) Have a thick cell wall usually made of polysaccharides nearly always with chitin microfibrils.
(3) Motile stages absent, never form flagella.
(4)
Have
a
typically
branched
growth
or
mycelium
made
up
of
individual
filaments,
the
hyphae.
Some
as
yeasts
are
unicellular
i.e.
non
mycelial.
Mycelia
may
be
coenocytic,
or
septate.
Asexual reproduction by a variety of spores.Sexual spores are also produced. In some large fruit bodies are produced. Life cycles may be simple to complex.
