Lab 3 Journal Entry

Phylogeny of the Artist's Bracket:
The fungus "Artist's fungus," also called "Artist's bracket," is part of the kingdom fungi and division basidiomycota. Its class, order, and family are agaricomycetes, polyporales, and ganodermataceae, respectively. Finally its genus is Ganoderma, resulting in its scientific name being Ganoderma applanatum. On OneZoom it took nearly 2 whole minutes of traveling down the phylogenic branch to arrive at this fungi, demonstrating the vast diversity of the fungi kingdom. There are over 50,000 species of fungi.
One Shared Adaptation:
Decomposers have the capability to recycle dead plants and animals into chemical nutrients (ex. carbon, nitrogen) which they are then able to use for as energy. Many of them have even adapted to work symbiotically with other organisms, for example earthworms fertilize soil, and rhizobium fix nitrogen into nitrates.
One Unique Adaptation:
I observed a "Dryad's saddle" (Cerioporus squamosus), and something that is unique about it is that it is actually a polypore, meaning that it has little holes instead of gills. The holes help the mushroom to increase its surface area, which allows it to disperse more spores over a larger area.

Publicado el 22 de septiembre de 2020 a las 09:08 PM por tnordstrom