Chapter 31 Lecture Enrichment Ideas
Use local specimens, or films or slides to examine what fungal organisms look like and how they reproduce.
Discuss how the parasitic forms of kingdom Fungi have adapted to their life style.
Clarify the similarities and distinctions among slime molds, water molds, and fungi.
Discuss the industrial and commercial uses of fungi.
Mildews, rusts and smuts may be familiar to students who are around Midwest farms, etc.
Describe the symptoms and mode of action of the human diseases caused by fungi.
Clarify that lichens can be made up of fungi and either green algae or cyanobacteria; detail the experiments that probe how they could be symbiotic or how the fungus could be parasitic on the alga or the bacterium.
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