Kingdom Fungi, Decomposers, Parasites, Lichens and Mycorrhizae Public Class

About the Class

This session would be confined to discussions on Kingdom Fungi, Lower Fungi, Higher Fungi. It would highlight the importance of fungi. In the end a description of Decomposers that are organisms that consume dead organisms, and, in doing so, carry out the natural process of decomposition, Parasitic forms, Lichens that are symbiotic associations of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner that can produce food for the lichen from sunlight and Mycorrhizae which is a symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a plant will be given.

The previous sessions in the series were:

• Scope of Biology, The Living World and The Living Processes
• Cell - An Introduction, Structural Organization and Cell Organelles and their Functions
• Cellular Respiration - A General Account, Fermentation, Biological Oxidation (A Cycle Outline), Mitochondrial Electron Transport Change, High Energy Bonds and Phosphorylation
• Circulation: closed and open vascular systems, structure and pumping action of heat, arterial blood pressure and lymph
• Immune response, vaccines and antisera, Allergies and Inflammations, Tissue and organ transplantation, Community health services and measures, Inherited diseases and dysfunctions, sex linked diseases
• Nervous coordination: central autonomic and peripheral nervous systems, receptors, effectors, reflex action
• Basic physiology of special senses and Integrative control by neuroendocrinal systems
• Classification of living things, Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Concepts of species, taxon and categories - hierarchical levels of classification, binomial nomenclature, Principles of classification, nomenclature, and identification
• Two kingdom classification as plants and animals and Journey to a Five Kingdom Classification

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  Keywords: biology, bio, plus 2, aipmt, aiims, afmc, cbse, medical entrance, fungi