6 Major Phyla
Chytrids (Chytridiomycota)
Chytridiomycetes
“True Fungi”
Mostly aquatic
Microscopic
Conjugated Fungi (Zygomycota)
Bread mold
Live of decaying organic material
Sac Fungi (Ascomycota)
Yeast
Make bread
make Alcoholic beverage (beer)
Truffles
Morels
Honeycomb caps
Club fungi (Basidiomycota)
Gills fungi
Mushrooms (edible)
Toadstools (poisonous Mushrooms)
Shelf fungus (bracket fungi)
found on trunks of trees
Fallen logs
Imperfect Fungi (Deuteromycota)
mold
help make cheese (blue cheese/camembert)
Making Alcoholic Beverages (Sake, Beer)
Glomeromycota
live in close association with the roots of trees
Tree root symbionts