Fungus (part II)

(In other words what happens when it is finals week and I am studying for exams)
What is a Fungus?
A Eukaryotic Multicellular organism-geeze that narrows it down then
Primary Storage unit is Glycogen- If I knew what Glycogen this would be infinitely more interesting.
Heterotrophic organism devoid of chloryphyll- In other words a Fungus is an organism that makes it’s living by leeching from others. Like a vampire, taking the life blood away from other things… like my cheese and bread for instance. Curse you Rhizopus nigricans.
Has cell walls- What if it didn’t have cell walls? Would they be as good on pizza or in pasta sauces? I don’t think so…oh and their cell walls are made out of the same substance that makes up an insect’s exoskeleton…so if you want to work your way to eating bugs just munch on some fungus and you’ll get used to it…eventually.
Non motile- Imagine a world where fungus were motile. Forget about speaking German, we’d be speaking chemical pathways… because if they can move it’s only a matter of time before they can speak… and if you know your science fiction as soon as they learn to speak they will try to dominate the human race!
Reproduces by spores- To be honest when I first read these notes I thought that it read ‘sores’ and I thought that my professor was a little crazy. Imagine reproducing by sores… “sorry honey, it may be painful but think about how cute little Johnny is going to be when the sores are gone”
Hypha-(plural:Hyphae)
Fungi are like living threads… these threads are called hyphae and are called mycelium if they are enough of them. They elongate by atypical—I mean apical growth…in other words they grow from their tips. If we grew atypically we would all have short torsos and long limbs, and you would be able to Identify Grandpa by the length of his fingers… weird hua?
These living threads will often live on your trees and flowers and things. Yeah you heard me right… a relative of the green thing growing m=on my cheese is also growing on an orange tree in my family’s backyard…but before you get the fungicide remember that the plants need the mycorrizal fungus to grow as big as they do. Without the fungus that fertilizer that you tossed on it yesterday was useless.