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PARAMECIUM


               Kingdom 3: Fungi

               Following are its basic features:


                   •  Eukaryotic
                   •  Mostly multicellular but sometimes unicellular(yeast)
                   •  Cell wall is made of chitin

                   •  Mode of Nutrition--------

               a) Mostly saprophytes - these organisms use decaying material for food.
               b) Some parasitic - these organisms live inside body of other living organism to
               have food and can be disease causing.
               c) Symbiotic relation - these are relations between two organisms in which they live
               together for benefit of one or both.
               Lichens are a symbiotic relation between fungi and cyanobacteria. Here fungi gets
               food from cyanobacteria and in return cyanobacteria gets water and protection from
               sunlight through fungi.
               Examples-mushrooms(Agaricus), green mold(Penicillium), smut(Aspergilus), Lichens
               etc.























               YEAST                                                                                                               LICHEN
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