Connect With Learnsmart Labs Online Access For Prescott's Microbiology
Connect With Learnsmart Labs Online Access For Prescott's Microbiology
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ISBN: 9781260408997
Author: Joanne Willey
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Higher Education (us)
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Fungi are eukaryotic, spore-bearing organisms and they have absorptive nutrition by secreting digestive enzymes. They lack chlorophyll and have both sexual and asexual reproductive systems. The study of fungi is known as mycology and the study of fungal toxins is known as mycotoxicology. In animals, diseases caused by fungi are called mycoses. There are numerous group of organisms are classified under fungi, nearly 90,000 fungal species have been described.

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