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$5.00 Discuss in detail how fungi get their nutrition.
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Discuss in detail how fungi get their nutrition. Relate this mode of nutrition to how a bed of fungal hyphae can so rapidly breakdown organic materials such as fallen leaves that are in contact with the soil. This has to have a title page then two pages with the paper and a reference page all in APA format.
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Preview: ... ant structural component of plant cell walls, nd the rotting wood and other plant remains is achieved partly by decomposers secreting cellulose.
Some fungal saprotrophs are of economic importance, such as Saccharomyces and Penicillium.
PARASITES: Fungal parasites may be fucaltative or obligate, and are more commonly attack plants than animals. Obligate parasites do not normally kill their hosts, whereas facultative parasites frequently do, and live saprotrophically off the dead remains. Obligate parasites include the powdery mildews, downy mildws, rusts and smuts, and are usually restricted to a narrow range of hosts from which they require a specific range of nutrients. Facultative parasites are usually less specialized and may grow on a variety of hosts or substrates.
If the host is a plant, hyphae penetrate through stomata, directy through the cuticle and epidermis, or throu ...
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