These are the hyphae. Be as specific as possible. Examine the demonstration slide of a cross-section of Coprinus . Notice the relationship between the gill , the basidium , and basidiospores . Make sure that you and your lab partner agree on answers to the following questions.
Shelf fungi belong to the same phylum as mushrooms.
You may want to look at a shelf fungus under magnification to answer this question. List them below indicating in what form you found them. Deuteromycetes are NOT a monphyletic group. Although they look like individual organisms, lichens are actually a symbiotic association between an autotroph and a fungus. The autotroph is either a green alga or a cyanobacterium, and the fungus is most often an ascomycete.