Anyone here like Fungus?I need help...?

Question

Well I was given this thing to do and it was on Bird's nest fungi..well I can't seem to find the importance of nor the uses of it or the life cycle...does anyone know any good sites to find these other than google, ask, and yahoo...because I just spent the last half an hour doing that...

Answer 1

These are saprophytic fungi and the interesting part is the method of dispersing spores. Here are a couple of websites with pictures:

http://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/birds-nest-cannonball.html

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/pljune96.htm

http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/fungi/fun/birdnest.htm

As for the importance and uses, it is a decomposer with an interesting, unexpected way of dispersing spores. As for reproduction, these are basidiomycetes, subdivision gasteromycetes.

Here is a description of fungal reproduction:

http://www.microbiologybytes.com/introduction/myc2.html

Here is a description of the Kingdom Fungi:

http://academic.kellogg.cc.mi.us/herbrandsonc/bio111/fungi.htm

Good luck!

Answer 2

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