Are fungi unicellular or multicellular?
1 Answer
Mar 25, 2018
Fungi are unicellular as well as multicellular.
Explanation:
The fungus plant body is termed mycelium. In some fungi like * Mucor , the mycelium is made up of much branched hyphae forming a reticulum or network. The hyphae are multinucleate and aseptate . The whole mycelium is thus a multinucleate cell. Such cell is termed coenocyte.*
The myceliuum in other fungi like Penicillium , is multicellular and septate. Each cell is uninucleate.
Fungi thus can be unicellular (coenocytic) or multicellular.