Compose a three to five-sentence paragraph that discusses reasons Hannibal could use to convince his friend that mushrooms are fungi. Use the terms chitin, hyphae, and septa, as well as how fungi obtain nutrients in your response.

Ascomycota

(sac fungi) a division of fungi that store spores in a sac called ascus

basidiomycota

(club fungi) a division of fungi that produce club shaped structures, basidia, which contain spores

Chytridiomycota

(chytrids) a primitive division of fungi that live in water and produce gametes with flagella

Deuteromycota

a division of fungi that do not have a known sexual reproductive cycle (presently members of two phyla: Ascomycota and Basidiomycota)

Glomeromycota

a group of fungi that form symbiotic relationships with the roots of trees

hypha

a fungal filament composed of one or more cells

lichen

the close association of a fungus with a photosynthetic alga or bacterium that benefits both partners

mold

a tangle of visible mycelia with a fuzzy appearance

mycelium

a mass of fungal hyphae

mycorrhiza

a mutualistic association between fungi and vascular plant roots

mycosis

a fungal infection

septum

the cell wall division between hyphae

thallus

a vegetative body of a fungus

yeast

a general term used to describe unicellular fungi

Zygomycota

(conjugated fungi) the division of fungi that form a zygote contained in a zygospore

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