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