Mushrooms
Fungi (Fungi, Mycetes) - the kingdom of living nature, uniting the lower eukaryotes, combining certain characteristics of plants and animals, feeding on ready-made organic substances; can be unicellular (often microscopic) or multicellular; fungi pathogenic for humans are usually called parasitic fungi; about 150 types of mushrooms are edible, some mushrooms, when eaten, can lead to acute poisoning.
Types of mushrooms:
- basidial (Basidiomycetes; synonym: basidiomycetes) - a class of higher fungi, including the overwhelming majority of poisonous and edible mushrooms;
- smut (Ustilanginales) - the order of fungi, included in the class of basidial, containing parasites of higher plants, including cereals; some of the smut mushrooms are a source of medicinal substances, for example, ergot;
- imperfect (Deuteromycetes, Fungi imperfecti) - a class of higher fungi with a well-defined multicellular branched mycelium (vegetative body of fungi); reproduce asexually - conidia (conidiospores); many species belong to causative agents of human, plant and animal diseases; some species produce antibiotics;
- lower (synonym: phycomycetes) - a heterogeneous non-systematic group of organisms previously accepted as a class of fungi; differ in non-cellular mycelium, include species pathogenic for humans, included in the mucor family;
- parasitic (synonym: parasitic fungi) - a name that unites fungi that parasitize in the body of animals and humans, and cause diseases of internal organs, skin and its appendages (including human mycoses);
- marsupials (synonym: ascomycetes) is a department containing organisms with septate mycelium and asci (bags), which are specific organs of sexual sporulation, or having asexual sporulation (include the class of saccharomycetes);
- carnivorous - a name that combines imperfect fungi of the order Hyphomycetales and some lower fungi, with characteristic ring-shaped formations on the mycelium, designed to capture and further eat microscopic or (much less often) larger animals; are used to control pests of agricultural plants (nematodes and hookworm larvae).
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