Fungi

Three main phyla in Fungi

• Zygomycota
• Basidiomycota
• Ascomycota

• Scientific name-Pilobolus
• Pilobolus uses a "shotgun" to blast their spores as far away as possible.
• Fungal Shotgun lives in and eats off of cow dung.
• The Fungal Shotgun gets into the cow dung when the cow eats the spores. The cow eats the spores while grazing and they can't digest them so the spores pass through the digestive system and come out in the dung.
• The "shotgun" for the fungi is a swollen stalk with cell sap. When water pressure builds up in the stalk the tip(containing the spore) explodes and shoots the spore out.
• The spores can fly 35 feet for every per second!