Fungi from Different Environments

fungi  A fungus was the provider of the very first antibiotic, a discovery that has saved countless millions of lives Fungi have given us statins to Fungi make important contributions in managing disease in humans and animals Penicillin is based on fungi Fungi are involved in the industrial

Fungi have plasma membranes like other eukaryotes, except that the structure is stabilized by ergosterol: a steroid molecule that replaces the Based on observations of mushrooms, early taxonomists determined that fungi are immobile and they have rigid cell walls

Fungi are eukaryotic organisms that are distinctly different from plants and animals and are fungi are a successful group and this success can be attributed in large part to their use of heterokaryosis to overcome the genetic and physiological