For Fungi we have terms and definitions in 14 topics. The topics are Agriculture, Air Quality, Biology, Carpet, Climate, Evolution, Female Health, Food Industry, Food Irradiation, Food Safety, Fossils, Physical Geography, Sanitation and Science.

Fungi (Agriculture)

Saprophytic and parasitic organisms that lack chlorophyll and include molds, rusts, mildews, smuts, mushrooms and yeast; singular, fungus.

Fungi (Air Quality)

Any of a group of parasitic lower plants that lack chlorophyll, including molds and mildews.

Fungi (Biology)

1. A kingdom that includes the yeasts, molds, mildews, and mushrooms.

Fungi (Carpet)

A major group of simple, lower plants that have no chlorophyll (e.g., molds, mildews, yeasts, mushrooms), and whose rigid walled cells contain one or more organized nuclei. They have no stems, leaves, or flowers. They are found in soil, water, and air. They begin as spores and develop into new plants. Since they lack chlorophyll, they cannot manufacture their own food; therefore, they must live on living or dead plants or animals. Unicellular fungi area called yeasts. Fungi formed by long chains of cells are called molds.

Fungi (Climate)

Molds, mildews, yeasts, mushrooms, and puffballs, a group of organisms that lack chlorophyll and therefore are not photosynthetic. They are usually nonmobile, filamentous, and multicellular.

Fungi (Evolution)

A group of organisms comprising the kingdom Fungi, which includes molds and mushrooms. They can exist either as single cells or make up a multicellular body called a mycelium. Fungi lack chlorophyll and secrete digestive enzymes that decompose other biological tissues.

Fungi (Female Health)

Single-celled life forms that are larger than bacteria and have organelles (mini-organs) inside the cells

Fungi (Food Industry)

Fungi are life forms in which the genetic material is bound by a membrane (unlike bacteria), but do not produce their own food (unlike plants) and are unable to move on their own (unlike animals). Fungi vary in size from microscopic yeast and some moulds, to visible moulds, to large mushrooms and toadstools.
See moulds, toadstools and yeasts.

Fungi (Food Irradiation)

Plural of fungus.

Fungi (Food Safety)

Plural of fungus.

Fungi (Fossils)

A group of organisms comprising the kingdom Fungi, which includes molds and mushrooms. They can exist either as single cells or make up a multicellular body called a mycelium. Fungi lack chlorophyll and secrete digestive enzymes that decompose other biological tissues.

Fungi (Physical Geography)

Group, at the kingdom level, in the classification of life. Multicellular organisms that have a eukaryotic cell type, mitochondria, and a cell wall composed of chitin and other noncellulose polysaccharides.

Fungi (Sanitation)

Small non-chlorophyll bearing plants which lack roots, stems or leaves, which occur (among other places) in water, wastewater or wastewater effluent and grow best in the absence of light. Their decomposition may cause disagreeable tastes and odors in water; in some wastewater treatment processes they are helpful and in others they are detrimental.

Fungi (Science)

A large group of microscopic organisms including molds and yeasts that feed by absorbing substances from their habitat and reproduce by means of spores

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