Suppose you are a mycologist trying to identify an organism you think is a fungus. Upon studying the organism, you observe that it has cell walls. You also observe asexual spore production and a mycelium without a membrane between sections of its branches. (Mycelium is the reproductive part of a fungus. It looks like long, branching threads.) The spores appear to be nonmoving. Can you classify the organism? Explain. What more do you want to know, and why?

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Ashlee Carroll

Biology

10 May, 19:29

Suppose you are a mycologist trying to identify an organism you think is a fungus. Upon studying the organism, you observe that it has cell walls. You also observe asexual spore production and a mycelium without a membrane between sections of its branches. (Mycelium is the reproductive part of a fungus. It looks like long, branching threads.) The spores appear to be nonmoving. Can you classify the organism? Explain. What more do you want to know, and why?

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Roman Simon · Answer 1

Yes, we can classify the organisms in the kingdom fungi because the organisms show all the characteristics which are present in fungi. These characteristics are spore formation, presence of cell wall and structure of mycelium. These three structures are enough evidence to classify the organisms in the kingdom fungi.

One more thing, we have to check the cell wall composition. If the cell wall is made of chitin so it is fungi but the cell wall is made of cellulose so it plant like fungi which is a protist not fungi.