Module 4

Kingdom Fungi

 Module 4 Flashcards

Further Your Knowledge

Read about the "zombie ant" fungus. 

You never know where a new antibiotic might come from. 

Have you ever thought about the fungus on your feet? 

Slime mold appears to be pretty smart.  Click on "Launch Video" at this NOVA webpage to see just how smart. 

Videos

It's amazing how many videos YouTube has on fungi.  Here are some of the more informative and/or fun to watch. 

An overview:

The structure of fungi

How fungi obtain food

Reproduction in fungi

Exploding puffballs!  Well, maybe "exploding" is too big of a word ....

Puffball mushrooms can get rather large, as evidenced by these two videos:

Fungi + time lapse photography = cool videos

What about mold on food?

Are you smarter than a slime mold?

More on slime mold

Fairy rings 

  

Information on stem rust - a parasitic fungi that attacks wheat.

A short experiment on determining what yeast like to eat.

Another time-lapse video, this time with yeast budding.  Not as fun as watching mold grow, but this will be helpful if you don't manage to see budding yeast in our class experiment.

Finally, a song: