Characteristics+of+Fungi

Fungi mostly live in the water, on the land, and on other plants and animals. They are eukaryotic which means that they are multi-cellular. The cells walls of fungi are made out of chitin which can also be found in the exoskeletons of arthopods. The bodies of fungi consist of slender filaments (fibers that are in a structure as a chainlike sieries of cells) that are called hyphae. A mass a hyphae is called mycelium which carries on the life-maintaining processes like reproduction. Unlike a plant, fungi cells don't contain chlorophyll. This means that they can't produce thier own food through photosynthesis, so they get nutrients from dead matter and decompose the matter as the feed off it. They store thier food as glycogen. Because they feed off of dead material, they can cause diseases on humans, animals, and other plants. Fungi don't have an embryonic stage, and mostly live in the water, on the land, and on other plants and animals.