Question

What is the difference between "Hypha" and "Mycelium" in fungi?

Answer 1

Hypha is a part of plant body and Mycelium is the total plant body in fungi.

Explanation:

In Fungi the plant body is made up of thread-like structures criss-crossing one another to form an entangled mass. The plant body is termed mycelium . The thread like structures, constituting mycelium, are termed hyphae (singular termed hypha ).

The hypa may be be aseptate and multinucleate(e.g. `Rhizopus`) or septate and multicellular( e.g. `Penicillium`). Each cell is uninucleate. In `Rhizopus` the mycelium is coenocytic, made up of multinucleate, aseptate hyphae.