Are fungi prokaryotic or eukaryotic? What characterizes the cells of multicellular fungi? What are the organizational units of fungi called; what are they collectively termed as? Do fungi reproduce asexually or sexually; is the haploid or diploid stage dominant?
Fungi are eukaryotic and range from being unicellular to multicellular. Multicellular fungi do not have cell walls or membranes separating individual cells; thus, the cytoplasm is continuous among the cells. Cells are organized into branched filaments, or hyphae; all a fungus's hyphae are collectively called a mycelium. Fungi can reproduce asexually and sexually; in both reproduction cycles, the haploid stage is dominant. The different ways fungi reproduce helps distinguish between the four major types of fungi that exist: the Zygomycota, the Ascomycota, the Basidiomycota, and the Oomycota.
