page_title: Fungus
section_title: Pathogens
hierarchical_section_title: Fungus / Pathogens
caption_attribution_description: English: The death cap. Ukraine. Русский: Бледная поганка. Украина. Latina: Amanita phalloides (Vaill. ex Fr.) Link, 1833
context_page_description: A fungus is a kind of living organism: yeasts, moulds and mushrooms that exist as a single filamentous or multicellular body. The filament is known as hyphae multinuclear with cell wall containing chitin or cellulose or both, others are parasitic saprophytic on other organisms and reproduce sexually and asexually.
  The fungi are a separate kingdom of living things, different from animals and plants.
  Fungi have cells with nuclei. Their cell walls contain chitin, unlike the cell walls of plants, which contain cellulose. These and other differences show that the fungi form a single group of related organisms, called the Eumycota or Eumycetes. They share a common ancestor and are monophyletic group.
  Their basic mode of life is saprophytic: a fungus breaks down dead organic matter around it, and uses it as food.ᵖ¹⁰⁷
context_section_description: Some fungi cause crop diseases; others cause serious disease in humans. Some are highly poisonous: never eat a mushroom picked in the wild unless you know what you are doing.
caption: Amanita phalloides is highly poisonous
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