Unit 3 · Mushroom

Life Cycle of a Mushroom Presentation

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Science and Technology, Class 9, Unit 3

Life Cycle of a Mushroom

A fungus · Mycelium · Basidiospores

What We Will Learn

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What a mushroom is and where it grows

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The parts of a mushroom body

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The gill layers and how spores form

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The cycle from spore to adult mushroom

What Is a Mushroom?

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Grows in the rainy season on soil, dung and tree bark

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Has no chlorophyll, so it cannot make its own food

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Saprotrophic: it absorbs food from dead matter

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Some edible, some poisonous; farming brings income

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Presenter notes: Today we follow the full circle of a mushroom's life: how it appears on dung and rotting matter in the rainy season, and how it makes new mushrooms again.