✅ Characteristics of Fungi

➖ Fungi are eukaryotic, non-vascular, non-motile and heterotrophic organisms.
➖ They may be unicellular or filamentous.
➖ They reproduce by means of spores.
➖ Fungi exhibit the phenomenon of alternation of generation.
➖ Fungi lack chlorophyll and hence cannot perform photosynthesis.
➖ Fungi store their food in the form of starch.
➖ Biosynthesis of chitin occurs in fungi.
➖ The nuclei of the fungi are very small.
➖ The fungi have no embryonic stage. They develop from the spores.
➖ The mode of reproduction is sexual or asexual.
➖ Some fungi are parasitic and can infect the host.
➖ Fungi produce a chemical called pheromone which leads to sexual reproduction in fungi.
➖ Examples include mushrooms, moulds and yeast.