Kingdon Fungi

Description- They have cell walls, but these contain chitin rather than cellulose. Many from symbiotic relationships with other organisms, or feed on decomposing organic matter.
Body Plan-Fungi are usually multicellular organisms, but there are some unicellular fungi.
Divergent Event-Fungi appear to have diverged from other eukaroytic organisms (which later developed into plants and animals) about 1 billion years ago. The fungal fossil record is largely incomplete, due to the fact that fungal tissues are rarely preserved: the earliest known fungal fossils date back a mere 400 million years.
Metabolism- Fungi are entirely heterotrophic, lacking chloroplasts to convert sunlight into energy, and rely on metabolizing existing organic compounds to obtain energy.
Digestion-Digestion in fungi is extracellular; it takes place through the use of enzymes, which break down the complex organic molecules that fungi consume and then deliver nutrients to the cell.
Circulation-Fungi possess a long, branching structure called the hypha, which assists in the exchange of nutrients and water between different parts of the fungus. There is no true circulatory system
Respiration- SOme can go through cellular respiration.
Nervous-Fungi possess no nervous system
Reproduction-Fungi reproduce through spreading spores, a form of sexual reproduction, and certain types can also perform meiosis.
Examples- Yeast, and Mold.
Phyla:
Chytrids-Chytrids are predominantly aquatic, and not terrestrial.Chytrids have flagellated gametes, their reproductive cells have a flagellum that allows them to swim.
Zygomycetes-Zygomycetes are fungi characterized by the formation of sexual spores (zygospores), and vegetative mycelium that lack septa except to delimit old or injured hyphae or reproductive structures.Asexual reproduction occurs most commonly by the formation of nonmotile, unicelled sporangiospores in uni- or multispored sporangia or merosporangia.
Glomeromycetes-Reproduces asexually through blastic development of the hyphal tip to produce spores.This is fungi found in soil and fresh water habitats and are mostly detritivores, subsisting on decaying organic matter.
Ascomycetes- The largest phylum of fungi. They are asexual. They can be used for anibiotics to baker's yeast.