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Mushroom
Eight Characteristics of
Mushroom
•made up of cells.
•reproduce
•maintain homeostasis
•grow and develop
•obtain and use energy
•respond to their environment
•Evolve
Reproduction
• The cap of the mushroom-fruiting part of the mushroom
During only a few days it creates millions of spores
• Spores-single cells, each can become a mushroom
• Two types of cell that produce mushrooms- Asci or
Basidia
• Asci- spores are made internally
The asci breaks open-spores are released
• Basidia-spores are made externally
spores make on top of the mushroom or under the
cap (depends) and break off
• Asci-
•Basidia
Energy
• This means they break down and "eat" dead plants
• The body of the mushroom-stores nutrients and other
essential compounds
• once it has enough materials and has the correct
conditions it reproduces.
Something cool
• In some ways, mushrooms are more closely
related to animals than plants. Just like us,
mushrooms take in oxygen for their
digestion and metabolism and "exhale"
carbon dioxide as a waste product.
• hieroglyphics found in the tombs of the
Pharaohs suggest that the ancient Egyptians
believed the mushroom to be "the plant of
immortality."
Copyright Lucy Konopkova
2010