- Knowing the basic features of fungi.
- Understanding the structure of mushrooms.
- Knowing how fungi gain their energy.
- Fungi comprise their own kingdom of organisms.
- Fungi are heterotrophic organisms. They are incapable of photosynthesis.
- Fungi consist of fungal cells. Fungal cells form mycelia.
- Most of the fungi of the forest exist as mycelia in the soil or in decaying wood.
- To reproduce, fungi produce fruit bodies.
- Fungi gain their energy either by living in symbiosis with a plant, by decomposing dead organisms, or by living as parasites in other organisms.
- Mushrooms have many uses in cooking, baking, fabric coloring, and medicine.
