Mycology
- Mycology (菌学)
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myco = fungus (Greek) + logy = logic (Greek)
Formerly, mycology is one of the subjects in botany.taxonomy
genetics
medicine, pharmacy and pathology
agriculture
ecology - Fungus (pl. fungi)
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- Nutrition: heterotrophic (photosynthesis lacking) and absorptive (ingestion rare). No photosynthetic ability (heterotrophic nutrition)
- Mode of life: saprophytic, parasitic, or symbiotic
- Thallus: on or in the substratum and plasmodial amoeboid or pseudoplasmodial; or in the substratum and unicellular or filamentous (mycelial), the last, septate or nonseptate; typically nonmotile (with protoplasmic flow through the mycelium) but motile states (e.g., zoospores) may occur.
- Cell wall: well-defined, typically chitinished (cellulose in Oomycetes).
- Nuclear status: eukaryotic, multinucleate, the mycelium being homo or heterokaryotic, haploid, dikaryotic, or diploid, the last being usually of limited duration.
[Left] at Kofu-en, South Ward, Sapporo, on June 30 2009. [Right] at Upper Chatanika Camp Site, Alaska, USA, on August 11 2010. - References