what are the adaptations of fungus?

Answer 1

fungi are able to use many many more chemical substrates as a food source. They have done this by the development and evolution of numerous novel enzymes that are not found anywhere else in nature.

One example of this is chitinase. Chitinase is an enzyme that digests Chitin, found in insect exoskeletons. A few plants have it, but nearly all fungi have it.

Answer 2

Fungi:
1. secrete enzymes to digest food externally and then take in the digested matter.
2. have various means of nutrition: saprophytes and parasites
3. have formed mutualistic relationships with algae to form lichens and with roots as mycorrhizae
4. may have very long cells with many nuclei instead of smaller, separate cells; they can grow more quickly
5. can make reproductive structures (like mushrooms) very quickly when environmental conditions are right, existing the rest of the time as filamentous hyphae
6. produce spores that are good at surviving harsh environmental conditions, lightweight to drift on the slightest air current, and produced in very large numbers

Answer 3

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